( 1) There shall be maintained for every village a register of mutations in such form as be prescribed.
(2) Any person acquiring by succession, survivorship, inheritance, partition, purchase, gift, mortgage, lease or otherwise any right in land or, where such person acquiring the right is a minor or otherwise disqualified, his guardian or other person having charge of his property, shall report his acquisition of such right to the Revenue officer within three months from the date of such acquisition and the Revenue officer shall give at once a written acknowledgement in the prescribed form for such report to the person making it.
{3) The Revenue officer shall enter the substance of every report made to him under subsection (2) in the register of mutations and also make an entry therein respecting the acquisition of any right of the kind mentioned in sub-section (2) which he has reason to believe to have taken place and of which a report has not been made under at the same time, shall make or paste up a complete copy of the entry in a conspicuous place in the village and shall give a written intimation to all persons appearing from the record of rights of the register of mutations to be interested in the mutations and to any other person Who he has reason to believe to be interested therein.
(4) Should any objection to an entry made under sub-section {3) in the register of mutations be made either orally or in writing to the Revenue Officer, he shall enter the particulars of tile objection in the prescribed form and furnish a copy of the same to the person making it.
(5) The objections made under sub-section(4) shall be decided on the basis of possession by the competent authority and orders disposing of objections entered in the register of disputed cases shall be recorded in the register of mutation by the competent authority.
(6) After the entries in the register of mutations have been tested and found correct, the entries shall be transferred to the record of rights and shall be certified by such officer as may be prescribed in this behalf.
Penalty for neglect to afford information.
45. The Deputy Commissioner may, if he is of opinion that any person has wilfully neglected to make the report required by section 43, within the prescribed period, impose on such person a penalty not exceeding twenty five rupees.
Assistance in preparation of maps.
46. Subject to rules made. under this Act, :-
(a) any revenue officer may, for the purpose of preparing or revising any map or plan required for or in connection with any record or register under this chapter, exercise any of the powers of the survey officer under section 24 except the power of assessing the cost of hired labour ; and
(b) any revenue officer not below the rank of sub-divisional officer may assess the cost of- the preparation of revision of such maps or plans and all expenses incidental thereto, and such costs and expenses shall be recoverable in the same manner as an arrear of land revenue.
Certified copies.
47. Certified copies of entries in the record of rights may be granted by such officers on payment of such fees as may be prescribed.
Maps and other records open to inspection.
48. Subject to such rules and on payment of such fees, if any, as may be prescribed, all maps and land records shall be open to inspection by the public during office hours, and certified extracts there from or certified copies thereof may be given to all persons applying for the same.
Power to transfer duty of duty of maintaining maps and records to settlement officer.
49. When a local area is under settlement, the duty of maintaining the maps and records may, under the orders of the Government, be transferred from the Deputy Commissioner to the settlement officer.
CHAPTER VI BOUNDARIES AND BOUNDARY MARKS Determination of village boundaries.
50. The boundaries of villages, survey numbers sub-divisions and fields shall be fixed and all disputes relating thereto shall be determined by survey officers or by such ' other officers as may be appointed by the Government for the purpose, in accordance with the rules made in this behalf. · Effect of settlement of boundary.