Mode of enforcing payment by sureties

Mode of enforcing payment by sureties.- All the remedies prescribed by this Act in respect of defaulters of public revenue due on land except the power of arrest and detention in prison may be employed against their sureties, and the Collector or the authorised officer may enforce the same simultaneously with, or either previously or subsequently to, their enforcement against the principal, so nevertheless that not more than the total sum in arrears and interest and cost of process shall be realized from both.