Section 22 of the Court-fees Act, 1870 deals with:

Section 22 deals with the number of peons in District Courts and the courts subordinate to them: every District Judge and every district Magistrate fixes the number of peons needed to serve processes, subject to High Court rules approved by the State Government. Peons in Revenue Courts are dealt with in s.23, their remuneration in s.20(iii), and tables of process-fees in s.21.