Section 4 of Madras Revenue Summonses Act, 1869

Persons summoned to produce may send documents by

third party :- 1Any person may be summoned to produce a document, without being summoned to give evidence; and any person summoned merely to produce a document shall be deemed to have complied with the summons if he causes such document to be produced, instead of attending personally to produce the same. 1. Sections 2 to 5 of this Act apply, mutates mutandis, to summons under Madras Act V of 1893-see section 3 of that Act.