Section 145. Chief Commissioner may make rules for guidance of Deputy Commissioner in certain matters.

The Chief Commissioner may make rules for the guidance of Deputy Commissioners in dealing with cases where, at the time of making the settlement next before this Act comes into force, the maintenance of patwari was made optional, and the persons settled with are unable to agree as to whether a patwari should be maintained, and for dealing with cases where no patwari is, under such option, maintained and the mukaddams proprietors have made default in the performance of the duties of a patwari. Such rules may empower the Deputy Commissioner, in the latter class of cases— (a) to impose fines not exceeding fifty rupees on such mukaddams or proprietors, and therefrom to make provision for the temporary performance of the duties in respect of which they have made default; (b) to appoint patwaris in the villages of such proprietors, either for the term of the settlement or for any shorter term, and to fix the remuneration of such patwaris. Nothing in the proviso to section one hundred and forty-four shall apply to patwaris so appointed.