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A legal practioner shall not be deemed to act if he only pleads and in such case he may, instead of filling vakalatanama, file a memorandum of a appearance as required under rule 4 (5) of Order III of Schedule I to the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908. 18(1) (a) Save as hereinafter provided the maximum daily allowance which may be allowed to a witness by the court shall be as follows:- Allowances to witnesses (i) labourers and ordinary cultivators and other person of similar class Rs. 2/- per day; (ii) person of better position Rs. 5/- per day. (b) If a witness demands in excess of what has been paid to him under sub- para (1)(a) such sum shall be allowed if he satisfies the Court that he actually and necessarily incurred the additional expense. (c) The Court may, for reason to be record in writing, grant daily allowance on a higher rate than that herein before provided. (2) (a) A witness traveling by rail or bus shall receive the traveling expenses actually incurred by him during the journey according to the following scale:- (i) a witness mentioned in clause (i) of sub-para (1) (a) third or lower class fare; (ii) a witness mentioned in clause (ii) of sub-para (1) (a) second, first or upper class fare as considered suitable by the Court. (b) Witnesses performing the journey or part of the journey by any other public conveyance, not being an aircraft, may be allowed their actual fare each way according to the class by which persons of their rank and station in life would ordinarily travel. (c) Charges for toll or ferries will be allowed at the usual rates to the extent to which they have actually been incurred. (d) Other traveling expenses will be given only when the journey could not reasonably have been performed on foot or in the case of persons whose age and position and habits of life render it impossible for them to walk the distance. In such cases in addition to the traveling allowance permitted by preceding addition traveling allowances shall be given at the following rates: (i) when the journey is by any kind of conveyance by road, the actual conveyance charge up to a maximum limit of twenty five naya paise per mile; (ii) in areas where the usual mode of travel is by water the actual expense incurred for boat hire upto a maximum of two rupees a day. (e) No person shall be allowed costs of conveyance by aircraft without the permission of the State Government. (f) In hilly areas where it is customary for respectable persons to be accompanied by a man carrying their baggage, when such a person is summoned from a distance of more than five miles he may be allowed the actual cost incurred for the hire of one porter. 19 (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in para 18 a person serving under the Government of India or of any State summoned to give evidence in a court shall receive such traveling allowance and in such manner as may be provided for in the rules which govern his traveling and daily allowances. Certificates to certain Government servant in lieu of expenses (2) A public servant shall be granted a certificate in the appropriate form and the fact of the grant of the certificate shall be recorded on the order sheet.