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2 KuMAON.
3 The whole of the sum shown as outstandings in this division is advances for
4 carriage of timber, recoverable on work done.
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6 GURHWAL.
7 Rs. 13,100, due on sale of kurrees, has boen recovered. Its. 1,800, due from a
8 sawing contractor who failed to fulfil his contract : a case is to be instituted for the
9 recovery of this money in the Lahore Court. Rs. 400, due by tho Irrigation Depart-
10 ment for carriage of sal logs from dep6t to Hurdwar : this money will be recovered.
11 Dryra Doon.
12 The whole is recoverable,—wiz., Rs, 500, advance to the Survey Sub-division ;
13 and the remainder is advanced to contractors and recoverable on work.
14 J OUNSAR,
15 Rs. 6,000 are due from officers of the 55th Regiment for timber supplied to them
16 at Chukrata, and will be paid when the officors recoive the price of their honses from
17 Government. Rs. 800 are advances to sawyers, and will be recovered on work.
18 Rs. 21,000 form the permanent advance, with the exception of Rs. 3,785, the
19 whole sum is advanced for grain supply, sawing, and labour, and will be recovered on
20 works.
21 Rts. 3,785 are due from contractors who have failed to fulfil their contracts, and
22 casos have becn instituted in the Civil Courts for recovery of the money.
23 BHAGERUTTEE.
24 Rs. 3,72,000 are an advance to Mr. Wilson, the sleeper contractor, and Rs.
25 15,000 was due by Mr. Wilson for 2,500 deodar logs handed over to him by Govern-
26 ment at Rs. 6 perlog. At the close of tho working season, when Mr. Wilson’s account
27 was balanced, both these sums were recovered.
28 Rs. 5,000 were advanced for supplying grain for labour gangs during the summer,
29 and will be recovered. Rs. 10,000, rent for the Tecree forests : this sum was due on
30 the 30th April, 1872, but was paid one month in advance.
31 Vil.—General Remarks.
32 KuUMAON.
33 58. In this division there were 115 cases of breaches of forest rules, of which
34 10 were brought before the Civil Magistrate : 3 of these only indirectly concerned the
35 Forest Department, and the result is not known; the remaining 7 were for cutting trees
36 without permission in the Raneehhet forests, and wero all dismissed. 105 petty cases
37 of evnding payment of forest ducs at the Kham Tehseol Chowkies were disposed of by
38 the Forest Officer ; punishment was awarded in 75 cases, and 30 were dismissed.
39 59. Tho demand for timbor from the Kumaon forest is gradually increasing,
40 and will continue to incicase in proportion as the railway approaches.
41 60. The death of Ahmud Khan, Superintendent of these forests, is much
42 regretted. He was formerly in the Bengal Native Cavalry ; during the Mutiny his
43 regiment dispersed, and he was taken into service by the Commissioner of Kumaon,
44 with whom and the Forests Department he has beon working ever since. An honest and
45 conscicntious man, he did his work most strictly; but still he had the happy knack of
46 carrying out orders without giving offence, and no ono ever complained of him. Up to