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WARRANT OF PRECEDENCE FOR INDIA

Survey, Police, Mines, Postal, Telegraph, Customs, or Scientific Departments, drawing Rs. 900 a month and upwards, Assistant Commissioners, Northern India Salt Revenue, drawing Rs. 800 a month and upwards. Chemical Examiner for Customs and Excise, Collector of Income-Tax, Calcutta, Director, Vaccme Institute, Belgaum, First Assistant Superintendent, Port Blair, Legal Assistant in the Legislative Department of the Government of India, officers of the Archaeological Department drawing Rs. 800 a month and upwards, officers of the Excise and Salt Departments drawing Rs. 800 a month and upwards, officers of the Provincial services of not less than 18 years’ standing drawing Rs. 600 a month and upwards. Registrar to the Chief Court, Lower Burma, and Secretary to the Board of Revenue in the Department of Revenue Settlement, Survey, Land Records and Agriculture, Madras, when a member of the Provincial Civil Service, rank in Article 78 of the table (Home Department Notification No. 2013, dated the 1st October 1913).

Consular Officers de Carriere in their respective grades take precedence of Consular Officers who are not de Carriere.

68. Managers of State Railways other than the North-Western Railway; Chairman of the Port Trust, Bombay; and Chairman of the Port Trust, Calcutta.

69. Vice-Chairman of the Port Trust, Calcutta; Directors of Traffic and Construction, Indian Telegraph Department: Examiners of Accounts, Public Works Department, first class; Officers of the Superior Revenue Establishment of State Railways, first class, first grade; Superintending Engineers, Public Works Department, first class; and Superintendents of the Survey of India Department, first grade Fourth Class

74. Members of the Indian Civil Service of 12 years’ standing and Majors.

70. Lieutenants of over 8 years’ standing and Chief Engineers of the Royal Indian Marine.

76. Government Solicitors.

77. Inspectors-General of Registration, Sanitary Commissioners and Directors of Land Records and Agriculture under Local Administrations.

78. Officers in the Third Class Graded List of Civil Officers not Reserved for Members of the Indian Civil Service.

The entries in the above table apply exclusively to the persons entered therein, and while regulating their relative precedence with each other, do not apply to the non-official community resident in India, the members of which shall take their place according to usage.

Officers in the above table will take precedence in order of the

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