{ NOby ) [Paar II. Branch depôts. VII.-Every Branch Treasury and every Tehsil Treasury shall be a branch depôt for the sale of postage stamps under the "onditions described in Rule V. It will receive its stamps from the local depôt to which it is subordinate, keeping always in store a supply sufficient to meet the probable demands of one mouth, estimated according to the average of former shles. It will keep an account of sales in the same form (8) hereafter prescribed for the Treasurer's account, and will indent for supplies in the same form (4) as hereafter prescribed for the Treasurer's indent. It will render an account monthly to the local depôt in Form 6A immediately on the expiration of the month. Retail sale of Stamps. VIII-A supply of stamps for sale by retail shall be kept available at every post office, receiving house, tehsildaree, thana, and every police station at which letters are received for despatch, and with every licensed stamp-vendor; and it shall be the duty of the officer to whom the person in charge of any of the above-named places is subordinate, to take steps to ensure that the supply kept on hand is at all times equal to at least one week's demaud. Persons in charge of the above-mentioned places will receive discount on purchases under Rule W. This rule does not apply to “Scrwice Stamps.” By the term “licensed vendor,” as used above, is meant a stamp-vendor licensed under rules framed by the local Government in accordance with Scction 48 of the General Stamp Act (XVIII of 1869). 腳 Authorization of certain retail rendors other than the above. 1X.—A district officer may authorize the grant of discount at # anna per rupee on purchases under Rule V to any person who is a bond fide retail vendor of postage stamps, although he may not be one of those required to retail them under the above rule. Such authority shall be given in writing, and must be produced by the person authorized wheu claiming discount on purchases: the authority will hold good for only 12 months from the date on which it is given, and may be revoked at any time at the discretion of the district officer. No such authority may be given to any person cmployed in a Govcrument Treasury. A register showing the name, residence, and occupatiou of every person so authorized, and the date of the authority, shall be kept by the district officer Custody of Stamps in Local Depots. x-The bulk of postage stamps in store at any local depôt shall he kept in parcels containing a known number of sheets, in the Treasury or other sccure place, in one or more strong chests or presses, under double locks,—the key of one lock of each chest or press always remaining in the hands of the Collector or other officer in charge of the stamps and the key of the other in the hands of the Treasurer. XI.—The remainder of the stamps in store shall be in the hands of the . Treasurer, and shall not exceed the probable demand of fourteen days, estimated according to the average of former sales. XII.-The Treasurer shall keep a daily account of receipts and sales" in the vernacular • rama rŲ of the district in which the transactions of each succeeding g day shall be entered consecutively, a balance being struck at the close of each day, and attested by the iuitials of the officer in charge of the Treasury. XIII.-On the first open day of each mouth; and on every Monday during the month,
- Form 4. the Treasurer shall prepare in the vernacular, and submit to . . . " the officer in charge of the postage stamps, an indentt
for a supply of postage stamps for the following week. The indent, after being approved or altered by the officer in charge of the postage stamps, shall be signed by him, and complied with as directed in the following rule. The indent thus signed shall be the warrant for the issue of the stamps. [Government Gazette, 18th January 1876.]
