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the passport-issuing officer should question passengers where
they come from, in cases where they do not hold specially
marked tickets. In cases where a passport has been wrongly
issued owing to erroneous plague-marking of the railway
ticket, the President or the Health Officer of the Municipality
in the City of Madras and the Municipal Chairman or any
Revenue officer not below the grade of Deputy Tahsildar in
the mufassal are authorized to cancel the passport on satis-
factory proof that it was wrongly issued.
(G.O., No. 1326-P., dated 13th October 1898; No. 1183-P., dated 2nd August 1899;
P.C., No. 560, dated 1st March 1899.)
9. Regulation 17(ii) (c).-The Collector should settle with
the railway authorities of each district at which stations the
railway staff shall be required to perform the duties connected
with the issue of passports, and at which stations the Collector
should make other arrangements. Stationmasters requiring
forms or service postage stamps should apply to the Collectors
concerned, and should use the following designation in frank-
ing covers containing correspondence connected with their
passport work-"Stationmaster and Honorary Plague Pass-
port-issuing officer."
(G.O., No. 454-P., dated 9th May 1898; No. 673-P., dated 15th July 1898;
P.C., No. 381, dated 25th October 1898.)
10. Regulation 17(iv).-Intimation of the issue of passport
or any change in the residence of the passport holder is now
made by sending the triplicate copy of the passport. The
following procedure should be followed in respect to passport
holders who change their residence within ten days of their
arrival:-
(i) When the new place of destination is within the
Madras Presidency-
(a) The local authority of the original place of arrival
should send the triplicate copy of the passport to the local
authority of the new place of destination after noting therein
the number of days for which the passport holder has been
observed.
(b) If the new place of destination is in another district,
the change of residence should also be intimated directly to
the District Medical and Sanitary officer (or Collector) of that
district, and through the Tahsildar or Municipal Chairman
concerned to the District Medical and Sanitary officer (or
Collector) of the original place of arrival.
(ii) When the new place of destination is in the Mysore
Province-