Maintenance of certain monuments.

(1) The State Government shall maintain every monument which has been acquired under section 13, or in respect of which any of the rights mentioned in section 5 have been acquired.

(2) When the Collector has assumed the guardianship of a monument under section 5, he shall for the purpose of maintaining such monument, have access to the monument at all reasonable times, by himself and by his agents, sub-ordinates and workmen, for the purpose of inspecting the monument, and for the purpose of bringing such materials and doing such acts as he may consider necessary or desirable for the maintenance thereof.