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Exemption of certain documents.-Nothing contained in the Act shall render the following documents chargeable with any fee:- (i) Power-of-attorney to institute or defend a suit when executed 2[by a member of any of the Armed Forces of the Union] not in civil employment. 3[* * *] (iii) Written statements called for by the Court after the first hearing of a suit 4[* * *] (v) Plaints in suits tried by 5 Village Munsiffs in the Presidency of Fort St. Georage (vi) Plaints and processes in suits before District Panchayats in the same Presidency. (vii) Plaints in suits before Collectors under Madras Regulation XII of 1816. (viii)Probate of a will, letters of administration, 6[and, save as regards debts and securities, a certificate under Bombay Regulation VIII of 1827], where amount or value of the property in respect of which the probate or letters or certificate shall be granted does not exceed one thousand rupees. (ix) Application or petition to a Collector or other officer making a settlement of land-revenue, or to a Board of Revenue, or a Commissioner of Revenue relating to matters connected with the assessment of land, or the ascertainment of rights thereto or interests therein, if presented previous to the final confirmation of such settlement. (x) Application relating to a supply for irrigation of water belonging to Government. , (xi) Application for leave to extend cultivation, or to relinquish land, when presented to an officer of land-revenue by a person holding, under direct engagement with Government, land of which the revenue is settled but not . permanently. (xii) Application for service of notice of relinquishment of land or of enhancement of rent. (xiii) Written authority to an agent to distrain. __________________________