Chapter III
MAINTENANCE OF MAPS AND RECORDS (A) KANUNGOS AND LEKHPALS
Sections in this chapter
- Section 21 — (1) The Collector may arrange the villages of the district in lekhpals’ halkas and may, from time to time, alter the limits of such halkas without effecting any change in the strength of lekhpals.
- Section 22 — been sanctioned by the State Government.
- Section 23 — Appointment of Lekhpals.
- Section 24 — other duties as may be prescribed.
- Section 26 — duties as the State Government may, from time to time, prescribe.
- Section 27 — Kanungos and Lekhpals to be public servents, and their records public records.
- Section 28 — The Collector shall in accordance with rules made under Section 234, maintain a map and field-book of each village in his district and shall cause annually, or at such longer intervals as the State Government may prescribe, to be recorded therein all changes in the boundaries of each village or field and shall correct any errors which are shown to have been made in such map or field-book.
- Section 29 — marks.
- Section 30 — Penalty for injury to, or removal of, marks.
- Section 31 — The Collector shall prepare and maintain in the prescribed from a list of all villages and will show therein the prescribed manner, the areas -
- Section 32 — Such registers shall be revised every five years in accordance with the rules framed in that behalf.
- Section 33 — The recordof-rights shall consist of a register of all persons cultivating or otherwise occupying land specifying the particulars required by Section 55.
- Section 34 — Report of succession or transfer of possession.
- Section 35 — Procedure on report.
- Section 36 — 2
- Section 37 — Power to prescribe fees for mutation.
- Section 38 — Fine for neglect to report.
- Section 39 — Correction of mistakes in the annual register.
- Section 40 — register.
- Section 41 — disputes.
- Section 42 — 1
- Section 43 — Presumption as to entries in the annual register.
- Section 44 — All entries in the annual register shall, until contrary is proved, be presumed to be true.
- Section 45 — true.
- Section 46 — Obligation to furnish information necessary for the preparation of records.
- Section 47 — All maps, field-book and registers kept under this Act shall be open to public inspection at such hours and on such conditions as to fees or otherwise as the State Government may prescribe.
- Section 48 — If the State Government thinks that, in any district or other local area a general or partial revision of the records or a re-survey, or both, should be made, it shall publish a notification to that effect.
- Section 49 — The State Government may appoint an officer, hereinafter called the Record Officer, to be incharge of the record operations or the survey, or both, as the case may be, in any local area and as many Assistant Record Officers, as to it may seem fit, and such officers shall exercise all the powers conferred on them by this Act so long as such local area is under record or survey operations, as the case may be.
- Section 50 — When any local area is under survey operations the Record Officer may issue a proclamation directing all Gaon Sabha and bhumidhars to erect, within fifteen days such boundary marks, as he may think necessary to define the limits of the villages and fields and in default of their compliance within the time specified in the proclamation, he may cause such boundary marks to be erected, and the Collector shall recover the cost of their erection from the Gaon Sabhas of Bhumidhars concerned.]2
- Section 51 — Decision of disputes.
- Section 52 — Records to be prepared in resurvey.
- Section 53 — Undisputed entries and disposal of disputes regarding entries by Record Officer.
- Section 54 — Officer.
- Section 55 — Particulars to be stated in the list of cultivators.
- Section 56 — Explanation
- Section 57 — Presumption as to entries.