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Collectom, Sub-CoUectors, Ass'rntant @bo- -Powered to tors, Deputy Collectors, Tahsildars and Deputy S ~ O P prso,, to Tahsildars shall have power to summon l[any person], appear or whose evidence may appear to them to be necessary tO~rOduce for the investigation of any matter in which they dooumer)t$. are authorized to hold an inquiry, and also to require tho production of any 2[document or other article] relevant to the matter under inquiry, which may be in the possession or under the control of such person. Tern of s2. Such summona shall be in writing, and summons. authenticated by the signature and seal of the officer by whom it is issued. It shall require the person summoned to appear before the said nfficer at a stated time and place, end shall specify whether his attendance ia required for the purpose of giving evidence or to produce s %[dooument or other articlel, or for both purposes ; and any particular 2[document or other article], the production of which is required, shall be described in the summons with convenient certainty. Service of 3 3. The summons shall be served personally on 'Ummona the person summoned, or, if he cannot be found, it may be left for him with some adult member of hisl family residing with him '[or by affixing it on the I outer door or other conspicuous part of the premises in which he is known to have last resided or carried on business or personally worked for gain.] -- 1 Those words wore substituted for the words " all person~ re~idcnt within the district by seation lO of the Tamil Nadu (Added Territories) Extension of Laws Act, 1964 (Tamil Nadu Act 8 of 1904). a These words were substituted for the word " document " bx section 10, ibid. Ss. 2 to 6 of this Act apply, mutatis mulandis, to eum. mona under Tamil Nadu Act V of 1893-See s. 3 of that Act. 4 Theso worda were ~nhstituted the words " or with the ho-d of the v:llttce in which he lives by section 10 of the Tamil Padu (Adrld Territories) ExtePeion of Lews &t, 196( (TaJ Nadu Act 8 of 1904 1869 : T.N. A d IIIJ Revenue 8ummmes 201 , 14. Any person may be summoned to produce a Persons summoned to '[document or other article], without being sum- produce may moned to give evidence; and any person summoned send dooumenb merely to produce e *[document or other article] by third Party* shall be deemed to have complied with the summons if he causes such *[document or other article] to be produced, instead of attending personally to produce the same. E B