Section 6

Chapter VIII: SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS 73. Books, etc. to be open to inspection.— Every public officer having in his custody any registers, books, records, papers, documents or proceedings, the inspection whereof may tend to secure any duty, or to prove or lead to the discovery of any fraud or omission in relation to any duty, shall at all reasonable times permit any person authorised 'in writing by the Collector to inspect for such purpose the registers, books, papers, documents and proceedings, and to take such notes and extracts as they may deem necessary, without fee or charge. 74. Power to make rules relating to sale of stamps.—The State Government may make rules for regulating— (a) the supply and sale of stamps and stamped papers, (b) the persons by whom alone such sale is to be conducted, and (c) the duties and remuneration of such persons: Provided that such rules shall not restrict the sale of ten naye paise or five naye paise adhesive stamps. {S.O. 1367 dated the 11th October, 1982— In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (a) of sub-section (1) of Section 9 and Section 74 of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 (Act no. 2 of 1899). the Governor of Bihar is ploased to make rules that the duties of Stamp vendors and duties of Katibs (Deed writers) must not be performed by the same individual, 2. In view of the cleanliness of the Administration and for checking forgery and defaications it is highly desirable that the duties of a stamp vendor and that of deed writer should not be performed by the same person or individual, 3. This notification will come in force at once. [There is another notification also | Section 6: Respondentia Bond, thatis to say, 56. Respondentia Bond, thatis to say, The same duty as Bond (No. 15) for any instrument securing a loan on the amount of the loan secured. the cargo laden or to be laden on board a ship and making repayment contingent on the arrival of the cargo at the port of destination.