Application of endowment to repair of an ancient monument

(1) If any owner or other person competent to enter into an agreement under Section 5 for the preservation of a protected monument refuses or fails to enter into such an agreement when proposed to him by the Collector, and if any endowment has been created for the purpose of keeping such monument in repair or for that purpose among others, the Collector may institute a suit in the Court of the District Judge or if the estimated cost of repairing the monument does not exceed Rs. 1,000, may make an application to the District Judge for the proper application of such endowment or part thereof. (2) On the hearing of an application under Sub-section (1), the District Judge may summon and examine the owner and any person whose evidence appears to him necessary, and may pass an order for the proper application for the endowment or of any part thereof, and any such order may be executed as if it were the decree of a Civil Court.