(9) The value of timber given gratis for the repairs of temples, dharmsallas and works of public utility, or any extraordinary grant when sanctioned, should be credited and debited in the accounts.

(10) In Enam land, in which the holder has by his original sunnud (title deed) the right over teak and blackwood secured to him, trees of every description can be felled at his discretion.

(11) In Enam land, the holder of which does not possess such right, the sanction of Government should be obtained before he can claim the right over teak and blackwood.

(12) In land now under cultivation, and also in the Enam land mentioned in paragraph II, the teak and blackwood trees might be offered to the holder at a fair valuation, and should they not accept it, the timber might be felled gradually, and disposed of by auction.

(13) Trees growing on Government land, under cultivation, are subject to 2nd, 10th and 11th Survey Rules, with the exception of teak and sissoo.

(14) All timber of every description passing through the country, except covered by a permit originally issued by the Forest Department, should be subject to detention for inquiry ; passes should be issued to all holders of Enam or other lands, on application to the mumlutdar of the district, at one rupee per 100, or one anna per 10. All passes should be given up to anyone appointed to receive them.

(15) Carts travelling in the neighbourhood of the forests by night should be liable to detention.

(16) When timber or firewood is not cut departmentally, or when application is made to gather timber which has been felled, dead wood, or to cut bamboos, a permit should be previously obtained (and paid for) from the mumlutdar of the district, or any authorised officer, and if the permit is for more than one cart or load, such carts or loads should be together when the permit is given up to the person appointed to receive it.

(17) No charcoal should be made within the forest reserves, or kilns erected, without the permission of the Conservator. (18) The existing orders relating to dullee or Kumri cultivation, and the sale of waste lands containing trees should be scrupulously attended to.

(19) All receipts on account of timber and firewood, whether cut in forest reserves or unsurveyed waste lands, should be

credited to the Forest Department, and all expenses debited against it."

In a Resolution, dated October, 1862, the Government of Bombay passed the following orders on these proposals. The first point for consideration, the Government considered, in regard to the general question, and on which the future organisation of the forests materially depended, was the system under which the fellings were to be thereafter conducted. Captain Bingham had recommended a system of departmental cutting; to this the Revenue Commissioner, Northern Division (Mr. Ellis), appeared to agree, although he apprehended that in working out the plan difficulties would occur which were not contemplated. The details sketched out by Bingham's sixth proposal Ellis considered insufficient; but he suggested that if the adoption of the system was approved Bingham would be directed to prepare a matured plan, to be carried into effect after approval by the Revenue Commissioners, and to be reported for the final sanction of Government. In the meantime the Governor in Council directed "that the cuttings be conducted as far as possible on the system laid down in the Dharwar Rules, as amended in the Rules attached to Captain Bingham's Report."

The Governor then passed the following orders on the proposals:

Proposal No. 1.-This proposal, his Excellency observes, is simply a repetition of the principles sanctioned by the Resolution of 2nd August, 1861, and is approved of. The Conservator should place himself in communication with the collectors for the speedy transfer of the accounts and forest establishments.

Proposal No. 2.-Hitherto the Conservator of Forests has held, in conjunction with that appointment, the appointment of Superintendent of Botanical Gardens, drawing for the duty a separate allowance of 250 rupees per mensem. This arrangement should be continued, the immediate management of the gardens of Dapoorie, Hewra and Parell, being vested in the assistant superintendent, whose appointment was sanctioned in 1847, and who should, subject to the control of the superintendent, keep separate the accounts of those gardens. The produce of the gardens will be managed with the view to promote the introduction of new, rare and valuable plants and trees; seeds, cuttings, etc., being distributed gratis under the rules lately sanctioned, and a

separate report should be annually rendered to Government by the superintendent.

Proposal No. 3.-This is approved of.

Proposal No. 4.-This is approved of.

Proposal No. 5.-The assistant conservators, although under the orders of the collector in all matters relating to the conservation of the forests and the realisation of the forest receipts, will nevertheless be subject to the Conservator as the head of their department, and will in that capacity submit reports direct to him.

Proposal No. 6.-This proposal is approved of; the system of cutting timber, departmentally, should, however, be introduced gradually only; until then the present fee system will remain in force, as directed in paragraph 34 of this Resolution. Proposal No. 7.-This is approved of.

Proposal No. 8.-In this proposal allusion is made to the timber depôts at Bombay, Bulsar and Calicut, but the abolition of these depôts has been sanctioned by the Resolution, dated 28th October, 1862, on the Report of the committee appointed to consider the measures which should be adopted to insure the Government stocks of wood being turned economically to account, and the retention henceforth of small depôts at Sedasheghur and Bulsar only are contemplated. The formation of other depôts, as suggested in this proposal, will only become necessary for the sale of the timber as the departmental system of cutting is extended and should only be established where required. Whenever formed, they should be as near the forests from whence the timber is drawn as possible in order that Government may be saved taking upon itself the conveyance of the wood from the vicinity of where it is felled, as this is an undertaking which can best be managed by private enterprise.

Proposal No. 9.-Approved. Small grants of timber may be made by the collectors. For larger ones the sanction of the Revenue Commissioners should be obtained. The Revenue Commissioners will be requested to fix the amount within which the collectors may make grants.

Proposal No. 10.-Approved; but the Conservator should arrange for letting Inamdars have passes gratis to cover while in transit any wood cut in their own estates.

Proposal No. II.-This relates to a subject under separate consideration, and respecting which separate orders will hereafter be conveyed.

Proposal No. 12.-The orders regarding the redemption of the land tax having been suspended by the despatch from the Secretary of State, dated 19th July, 1862, no such provision as that contemplated in this proposal is now called for.

Proposal No. 13.-As it is undesirable that Government should retain a right over teak trees now in Government lands not forming a part of the forest reserves, such trees may be offered, standing, to the occupant of the land at a fair valuation, and if they are not accepted by him on these terms, the trees may be gradually felled and disposed of by auction.

Proposals Nos. 14 and 15.-These are approved; care must be taken that no carts other than wood carts are detained for inquiry, and it can only be necessary in particular cases and places that wood carts travelling by night should be liable to detention.

Proposal No. 16.-This proposal is in accordance with the Dharwar Rules already sanctioned. Each load should be covered by a separate pass or ticket, so that there may be no needless detention of carts on account of the absence of another cart which may have broken down or otherwise been detained. Proposal No. 17.-This rule is approved of, subject to such local modifications as may be found necessary.

Proposal No. 18.-The village authorities should be held responsible that the existing orders relating to dullee or Kumri cultivation are attended to.

Proposal No. 19.-The views of the Revenue Commissioner on this proposal are approved of, and should be acted upon by crediting to the Forest Department :

Istly. The whole of the receipts from the produce of the reserves in surveyed districts.

2ndly. The whole of the receipts from the wooded waste lands in surveyed districts, such as North Canara, such lands being considered forest until the reserves are settled and marked off.

3rdly. The receipts under Proposal No. 13 to be credited to the Forest Department; since teak and blackwood, wherever growing, except in Enam lands, have up to the present time been conserved by that department.

Reference has been above made to the havoc which has of late years been committed in the forests, owing to the inefficiency of the Conservator's establishment, for the purpose of watching and protecting the reserves. Captain Bingham has submitted with his letter a statement of the establishments which he

would recommend for each of the principal forest divisions, into which it is proposed to divide the Presidency. In accordance with the suggestions made in the Government Resolution of the 2nd August, 1861, it is intended to appoint an assistant to the Conservator to the charge of each of these divisions, the extent of each of which has already been explained in No. 3 of the Proposals. In the statement of the establishments submitted by Captain Bingham, a moderate personal establishment has been allowed to each assistant, and a body of foresters in accordance with the importance and extent of the forests in each charge has also been provided.

The sanction of the Government of India should be solicited for these establishments. In doing so, it should be explained that the Governor in Council considers the proposed establishments to be absolutely necessary, to prevent the total disappearance of all forest reserves within this Presidency, and to provide for the due protection not only of our supplies of timber, but of fuel also.

The salary of the Conservator is at present only 500 rupees per mensem, in addition to which he receives 250 rupees as Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens. This salary the Governor in Council considers too small for a well-qualified person, and for the performance of duties so important, and which extend over such a wide range of country as those of the Conservator. When the rate above mentioned was fixed, the department was organised on an experimental scale only, and Dr. Gibson was then comparatively young in the service; but as he advanced in the service, it became necessary, in order to secure his great experience to the Forest Department, to grant him compensation for the loss of appointments to which his rank in the Medical Department entitled him, till at length he was in receipt of a salary of Rs.2138.13.4 per mensem.

On Dr. Gibson's retirement, the pay of his successor was put on its old footing; but as that officer is an uncovenanted servant of Government, the prospect of receiving increased allowances, in the shape of compensation for loss of promotion in another branch of the service, is not open to him. Mr. Dalzell was transferred from the charge of the Sind forests to the larger and more important charge of the forests of the Presidency, but the change has benefited him pecuniarily to the extent of 50 rupees per mensem only (the pay of the forest ranger in Scinde is 700 rupees per mensem), and this merely in consequence of the additional charge of the Botanical