hire charges shall be recovered for the workshops tools and plant used by the piece-workers on the workshop jobs entrusted to them

(11) The Chief Engineers, Superintending Engineers and Executive Engineers are empowered to hire out tools and plant and machinery to Zilla Parishads, Panchayat Samilhis. Panchayats and private parties for the periods specified below subject to the conditions laid

down in the above rules.

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Executive Engineer ; For a period not exceeding three months-Superintending Engineer : For a period not exceeding two years. Chief Engineer : For any period in excess of two years.

341. Floating plant not actually required for departmental purposes may be let out on hire to private persons and occasionally to Zilla Parishads, Panchayat Samilhis, Panchayats, Municipalities at rates fixed by Government and on conditions laid down in die rules, issued from time to time. Previous deposit should be demanded from outsiders hiring floating plant.

Government officers may use staff boats on the payment of rent fixed and on conditions laid down in each case - see Paragraph 349.

VI). Mathematical Instruments

342. Both drawing and survey instruments are stocked in the Public Works Stores, Hyderabad and Sithanagaram. The General Superintendent, Public Works Stores, shall obtain new supplies, when necessary, by calling for tenders for the supply of the instruments required from reliable local firms dealing in such instruments and also for quotation from Ihe mathematical instruments office, Calcutta, and by purchasing the articles from the

agency which quotes the lowest rate should be considered such tender articles suitable, | Instruments requiring repairs should be sent to the General Superintendent, Public World|

Workshops with instructions as to disposal after repair

Note :— In the case of leveling instruments required for ordinary purposes, purchases should

be made only from firms approved by the Chief Engineer.

The General Superintendent, Public Works Stores should see that instruments an|

not stocked in excess of requirements. The General Superintendent, Public Works Store!,|

should see that instruments are not stock in excess of requirements and that old or obsolete] stock is disposed to the best advantage of Government - vide also paragraphs 333 to 337,|

IX. Insurance of Government Property

343. General:—It is a general principle that Government bears their own risks and-1 do not insure Government property. In the case of goods intended from abroad, insurance charges are payable by Government only when the purchase price includes cost, insurance, and freight of the goods as delivered in Andhra Pradesh. If, however the goods are delivered | to a Government officer in a foreign country and shipped by him to India, such goods! Become Government property as soon as they are taken delivery and should not be insured,,

Special goods such as mathematical and scientific instruments, articles made of glass and other fragile articles, should be consigned at railway risk and they should not be' insured except in case where railway companies insist on insurance as a condition '"' transport.

E - DEPARTMENTAL REVENUE I. Sale of usufruct of trees, etc.

344. Except in cases where the sale of fishery rights in inland waters specially entrusted to the Public Works Department, the fisheries in all public inland waters shall bt j disposed of by the Revenue Department under B.S.O.No. 211. It is the duty of the Public" Works Department Divisional Officers to see that the sales of miscellaneous properties such as unsufruct of trees, grass, etc., are made periodically to the best advantage of the Government. The sales should be made by public auction after the publicity has been given.

It is also the duty of the Executive Engineer to arrange for the sale or prop utilization on works of old and full grown fuel and timber trees on lands in charge oft]

Public Works Department

Executive Engineers are however authorised to grant without auction lease ofusufm of trees, grass, etc., to the village panchayats and other bodies as specified in the rules hi Appendix 'X', Such lease may be sold in public auction only after Rule t, A and B of the, said rules have been invoked and no grant of lease can be made thereunder- J

345. As soon as the bid is knocked down (i) 25 percent of the purchase amount in' the case of leases for one year or less or of leases for sums not exceeding Rs. 130, or(ii). 25 percent of the proportionate purchase amount for the first year in the case of leases for . more than one year, and for sums exceeding Rs.100 in the aggregate should be collected. The balance of the purchase amount in the first case, or the balance of the proportionate amount for the first year in the second case shall be recovered within one week from the¹ date of receipt of the order of confirmation of the sale by the contempt authority or in caa where agreement has to be taken, within one week of the lease signing the agreer

Which should be done ordinarily within one week from the date of the receipt of the order of confirmation of the sale. In the second case. the amount due for each of the succeeding years of the lease shall be recovered within the first week of each year. Within the rime specified in the second sentence above, a sum equal to 5 percent of the tolal purchase amount for the entire period of the lease shall also be deposited as security for the due fulfilment of the conditions of the lease, by the successful bidder, except in cases (a) when the total purchase amount does not exceed Rs. 100, and (b) when the successful bidder in a village panchayat who need not deposit any security in any case. In these payments arc not made in due time the right should be resold then and there or fresh tender notices issued.

Failure to observe this rule may result in loss to Government, for which the officers concerned will be held primarily responsible.

Note 1 :—Before confirming sales, the officers entering into agreements should make careful enquiries regarding the solvency of the successful bidder.

Nole 2 :—The Executive Engineer concerned may at his discretion extend up to a maximum of one month the time-limit of one week prescribed in the second sentence of this paragraph for payment of the balance, subject to the following conditions :

(1) The Executive Engineer is satisfied about the solvency of the successful bidder,

(ii) Such extension does not involve any risk to Government, and

(iii) The successful bidder is not allowed to enjoy the usufruct until he makes the payment.

346. (1) Agreements for the sale of grass and usufruct of trees shall be drawn up in the prescribed forms - vide Appendix-X with necessary modifications ; when the amount of the lease for the whole period covered by the agreement is more than Rs. 100 and the period exceeds one year; in the case of other such leases, no agreements need to be taken and il will be sufficient if the conditions of die sale and of the enjoyment and the penalties for the infringement thereof are published at the time of the sale and communicated to the successful bidders. For leases of grass and fruit trees to village panchayats, however agreements in the form referred to above shall be executed in all cases irrespective of the amount and the period of the lease, together with a supplemental agreement in the form given in the same appendix to this Code.

(2) The agreements, except those taken in the cases noted in the margin should be stamped, under Article 35(a)(ii), as the case may be, of Schedule I of the Stamp Act, in respect of the amount of rent payable annually under the lease, and also under Article 35(c) in respect of the amount deposited by parties (other than the village panchayats), as security for the due fulfilment of the conditions of the lease, the amount of stamp duty being borne by the lessee ;

(1) In the case of leases to villages panchayals in which the annual instalment to be collected is Rs.100 or less or in which the period of lease is for one year or less whatever the annual rental may be, and

(2) In the case of leases to other parties in which the annual instalment to be collected is Rs.100 or less.

II. Rents of buildings and lands

347. The roles relating to rents of public buildings and lands will be found in Chapter III of

III. Navigation Revenue

348. The rules relating to the use of canals and public ferries and the scale of fees chargeable on account of registration, licences, wharfages, demurrages and others are contained in the notifications and navigation rules framed under the canals and Public Ferries Act of 1890, published separately and issued to the divisions concerned - vide ai Paragraph 254 of the Andhra Pradesh Public Works Account Code.

IV. Rents and Freights of Boats and other Floating Plant

349. The detailed rules relating to the assessment and recovery of the rents of booth and other floating plant in Public Works Division will be issued from time to time. It will be the duty of the Executive Engineer to see that the rents assessed are realized in accord with those rules - vide Paragraph 341.

V. Public Works Department Toll-Gates

350. The right to collect on Government roads will! Ordinarily be leased out and the orders of Superintending Engineers of circles either by public auction or by invites sealed tenders, according to the circumstances of each case. The Chief Engineers may i his discretion run them departmentally in particular cases for special reasons.

F – MISCELLANEOUS

1. Maintenance of Ferry Boats

351. The following rules are prescribed for providing and maintaining ferry boats for the Godavari and Krishna Delta systems— a

(1) The Public Works Department will provide boats (ballacuts) whereever-necessary, provided the Revenue Department can arrange for their working and maintenance,

(2) Every such boat will be provided by the Public Works Department with chain, etc., to secure it properly to the bank.

(3) Each boat (ballacut) will be handed over to me village officer who will b( responsible for and must make good any damage occurring to the boat or to any other boat navigating the canal by the wilful neglect of carelessness of the man placed in charge,

(4) The Village officer will arrange to appoint either a village servant or other^; individual to have charge of the boat.

(5) Repairs to ballacuts are executed by the Public Works Department and charged to Maintenance and Repairs of the Delta system.

II. Bridge over Irrigation Canals and Channels

352. If the construction of a new irrigation channel interferes with an existing public right of way, the cost of construction and upkeep of the bridge to a standard adequate to the requirements of normal road trafTic from time to time shall be met from 3 irrigation funds.

In cases where such bridges have to be improved or reconstructed in order to meet the requirements of increased traffic the entire cost should be met by the Public Works (Irrigation) Department irrespective of the question whether the bridge is structurally sound or not, or whether the roadway interrupted is a maintained road, a puntha or a cart-track etc., subject to the condition that the Public Works (Irrigation) Department is satisfied that such reconstruction or improvement due to increased traffic really necessary.

The cost

Para 357 Miscellaneous Rules 169 of the increased roadway over the bridge are its maintenance should be borne by the local authority concerned. Railings, side walls and embankments up to the limit of the Public Works Department land on each side should be treated as appurtenances to the bridge and be constructed and maintained by the Public Works Department and those beyond the limits of the Public Works Department land should be treated as part of the approach road and constructed and maintained by the Zilla Parishad, Panchayat Samithis and Panchayats concerned.

III. Supply of Medicines

353. Indents for supplies of medical stores will usually be confined to the supply of one or the other of the medicine chests provided under the Civil Medical Code for issue in particular cases, e.g., "Working Parties" etc. They should be usually submitted through Ihe District Medical Officer or the Director of Medical Services. They should be prepared in quadruplicate, by carbon paper on D.G.I.M.S. Form No. 4 (obtainable from the neamest Civil Hospital or from the Director of Medical Services) and must be legibly written. All columns in the indent must be properly rilled in.

No indents must be submitted between the 10th Feb. and 31st March as the Medical Stores Department will then be engaged in a stock-taking.

IV. Store Keepers

354. When the stores are sufficiently extensive to require it, a store-keeper will be appointed to hold charge. The Store-keeper will have nothing to do with disbursement of cash, the supply of materials or the preparation of bills. His duties will be contained to the receipt, custody preservation and issue of the stores under charge, and to keeping the required returns relating to them.