Section 170(c) in Police Regulations, Bengal , 1943
(c)In any other office, station or post in a district -(i)the senior officer for the time being in charge shall personally open, initial and date all incoming letters, and shall pass orders regarding their distribution and the action to be taken on each;(ii)when a communication is delivered by hand the officer who takes delivery shall endorse on the cover, or, if there is no cover, on the papers themselves, the actual time of receipt to the minute and shall forthwith place the cover or papers before the senior officer-in-charge who shall endorse on each paper the actual time at which he receives it and shall take other action as under clause (a); and(iii)the paper shall then be handed to the officer who is in charge of the register of letters received for distribution to the officers concerned after making the necessary entries in that register.
