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legal manner whatsoever ; but it shall be the duty of the several 

 Collectors to complete an account of the mode in which such payment 

 is made in the different parganas or other local divisions of their 

 districts, and to submit the result of their researches to the Board of 

 Revenue or other authority exercising the powers of that Board, and 

 it shall be competent to the Board of Revenue or other authority 

 aforesaid, with the sanction of the Governor-General in Council, to 

 increase or reduce the amount of remuneration paid to the patrvaris, 

 and to alter or modify the mode of its payment in any case in which 

 sufficient cause for the adoption of such a measure shall exist. 



(19). Whether no patwari has hitherto been appointed, the amount 

 of the remuneration to thepittwari who may be appointed under this 

 regulation and the mode of its payment shall be regulated by the 

 Collector with reference to the usage of the adjoining villages. 



(20). If the remuneration which zpativari has heretofore regularly 

 received, or which may be assigned to him by the Collector or other 

 competent revenue authority be denied to him by the parties who 

 have hitherto paid it or, who may have been directed to pay it by the 

 said authority, he is at liberty to complain against the person so with- 

 holding his dues to the Collector, who will proceed to an immediate 

 investigation of the facts and decide according to the usage of the 

 village, and the Collector is hereby authorized to compel payment of 

 the amount due to the patwari, and to fine the offending party accord- 

 ing to his situation and circumstances in life, provided always that 

 the fine in no instance exceed fifty rupees. 



(21). In all cases in which the decision of the Collector is to be 

 governed by usage, it shall be made an invariable rule to insert in the 

 original proceedings on the case the attested report of the kanungocs 

 of the pargana as to the custom or usage in reference. 



(22). Collectors of land revenue are hereby empowered to summon 

 the patwari of any village or villages within their respective districts 

 whenever there may be occasion for his attendance on any matter 

 connected with the duties of his office and to require him to produce all 

 accounts relating to the lands, produce, rents, collections and charges 

 of the village or villages, the accounts of which may be kept by him 

 and to examine him on oath to the truth of such accounts and on 

 any other matters relating to such accounts or regarding the lands, 

 produce, rents, collections, and charges of the village or villages to 

 which the said patwari may belong. 



