\Fjxtracts fro / the Notification of the Government of Bengal, 

 dated the 23rd March, 1909.} 



RULES UNDER THE LAND IMPROVEMENT LOANS ACT, 19 of 1883. 



In exercise of the power conferred by section 10 of the Land Im- 

 provement Loans Act, 1883, the Lieutenant-Governor is pleased to 

 make the following rules for Bengal (including the district of Sambal- 

 pur) as to the grant of loans under the Act. 



1. (1) Subject to the provisions of these rules, and provided that 



the district allotment is not exceeded without the 



Powers of sanction. , . 



sanction of the Commissioner of the Division, 



Sub-divisional Officers, and also Deputy Collectors specially empowered 

 by the Collector with the approval of the Commissioner, may sanc- 

 tion loans of sums not exceeding rupees 500 in each case, and the 

 Collector may sanction loans up to rupees 1,000 in each case, for 

 purposes specified in the Act. 



(2) Any loan exceeding rupees 1,000 shall require the sanction of 

 the Commissioner, and exceeding rupees 5,000, the sanction of the 

 Board ; and the Commissioner or the Board, as the case may be, may 

 call for such detailed plans and estimates, or for such professional 

 opinion, as may seem necessary, before sanctioning any such loan. 



2. Applications for loans may be presented to the Collector, or 

 Application to whom t any other Revenue Officer, not below the rank 



of a Kanungo, authorised in this behalf by the 

 Collector. 



3. (1) Application may be made orally or in writing. 



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4. (1) A Revenue Officer receiving an application under rule 



shall either make a local enquiry himself, or 

 Local enquiry. ^/Y 



cause one to be made by another Revenue Officer 

 not below the rank of a Kanungo, or by some reliable non-official 

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