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When a Collector shall require the attendance of a pativari for the 

 purpose above stated, he is to serve such patwari with a written notice 

 under his official seal and signature stating the purpose for which his 

 attendance is required, and the papers (if any) which he is to bring 

 with him. 



(23). If any patwari shall neglect or omit to produce his original 

 accounts on the requisition of a Collector or to give his evidence 

 respecting them, the Collector, is hereby authorized and empowered 

 to cause the said patwari to be apprehended, and to order him to be 

 confined in the dewani jail of the district until he produces his 

 accounts, or shows sufficient cause for not producing them. In such 

 cases, the pativari shall be sent by the Collector with a rubkari to the 

 Judge of the city or zillah, stating the purport of the order passed 

 against him, and the Judge shall, on those grounds, commit the patwari 

 to jail, and detain him until he produces the accounts or until the 

 Collector applies for his release. 



(24). In like manner patwaris shall produce all accounts relating 

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

 the accounts of which may be kept by them respectively and furnish 

 every information and explanation that may be required regarding 

 them whenever they may be required by any Court of Justice in any 

 suit that may be depending before the Court, and if any patwari shall 

 neglect or omit to attend with his accounts when required for the 

 adjustment of any matter or dispute depending in Court, the Courts 

 are authorized to order such patwari to be committed to close custody 

 until he produces the accounts or shows sufficient cause for not having 

 produced them. 



(25). In any case in which a Collector of land revenue shall have 

 occasion to depute an officer to examine the accounts of any village 

 or villages, he is authorized to require the patwaris to attend such 

 officer, and the Collector is further empowered to grant to such officer 

 a commission to swear the several patwaris whose accounts are to be 

 inspected, inserting in the commission the name of each patwari to be 

 sworn, and if any such patwari shall neglect or refuse to attend such 

 officer with his accounts or to give his evidence respecting them, when 

 duly required to do so by a written notice from the Collector, the 

 Collector is hereby authorized and empowered to proceed against such 

 patwari in the same mode as if he had refused or neglected to 

 attend or to give his evidence before the Collector himself. 



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