The Gazetteers Department

The Inspector General of Registration is the head of the department. Under him is a District Registrar for each district who supervises the registration work in the district. The Collector of the district functions as an ex-officio District Registrar. Under the District Registrar there are Sub-Registrars. In Yeotmal district there are Sub-Registry offices at Yeotmal, Darwha, Pusad, Kelapur, Wani, Umarkhed and Digras. Besides there is a visit office at Ami which is visited by Sub-Registrar at Digras on every Monday. The Sub-Registrars are appointed by the Inspector General of Registration.

The District Registrar is required to carry out the instructions of the Inspector General of Registration in all departmental matters. He advises on the difficulties encountered by the Sub-Registrars in their day-to-day work. He visits the sub-registry offices in his district at least once in two years and sends his memoranda of inspection to the Inspector General of Registration. He hears appeals and applications preferred to him under Sections 72 and 73 of the Indian Registration Act (XVI of 1908) against refusals to register documents by the Sub-Registrars under him. Under Sections 25 and 34 of the Act, he is empowered to condone delays in presentation of documents and appearance of executants provided the delay does not exceed four months and to direct that the documents concerned be registered on payment of a fine not exceeding ten times the proper registration fee. He is also competent to order refunds in the case of surcharges and to grant full or partial remission of safe custody fees in suitable cases. A will or codicil may be deposited with him under a sealed cover, and it may be got registered at the cost of the party desiring it, after the depositor's death.

Senior Sub-Registrars are appointed as Inspectors of Registration. Their work is to inspect the work of all sub-registry offices in their charge. The Inspector of Registration, Amravati division has jurisdiction over Yeotmal district.

Registration of Documents.

Under the Indian Registration Act (XVI of 1908) compulsory registration is required in the case of certain documents and optional registration is provided for certain other documents. Documents which fulfill the prescribed requirements and for which the required stamp duty and registration fees are paid are registered. A record of such registered documents is kept and extracts of documents affecting immoveable property in respect of which Record-of-Rights is maintained are sent to the offices concerned for making mutations. Certified copies from the preserved records of registered documents are also issued to parties who apply for them.

In all, 14,680 documents were registered in the district during 1965. Of these 13,405 documents falling under compulsory registration were of the aggregate value of Rs. 5,33,78.606. Documents falling under optional registration were 474, their aggregate value was Rs. 5,79.773 and 654 documents affecting moveable property were of the aggregate value of Rs. 7,83,24.944 and 147 were wills.

Fees are levied for registration according to the prescribed scale, but the State Government have exempted levy of registration fees in respect of documents pertaining to the societies registered under the Co-operative Societies Act.

Photo-Copying System.

The photo-copying system has been extended to this district.

Income and Expenditure.

The figures of the average annual income and expenditure of Yeotmal registration district for the years 1964 and 1965 are given below (based on the figures in the administrative reports of 1964 and 1965): -

Year	Income	Expenditure
(1)	(2)	(3)
	Rs.	Rs.
1964	140,657	37,668
1965	158,328	41,648

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