Punjab Land-Revenue Act, 1887 · Chapter I: Preliminary
Section 5: Power to vary limits and alter number of tahsils, districts and divisions
The local Government may by notification vary the limits of the tahsils, districts and divisions into which the territories administered by it are divided, and may by notification alter the number of those tahsils and, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, the number of those districts and divisions.
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