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2 This is a great saving to Government, for even by the amended agreement of October,
3 1870, ho got from Rs. 6,000 to Rs. 8,000 per annum, varying ‘acdording to the
4 amount of revenue and expenditure.
5 Denura Doon Division,
6 65. There were eight cases of breuches of forest rules disposed of during the
7 yoar :—
8 By tho District Magistrate... aes oe 1 ease.
9 By the Forest Officer oes ees aac 7 cases.
10 Convictions were obtained in every case.
11 66. The forests of this division are most important, and require the most careful
12 supervision and management of any in the North-Western Provinees. Bordered on
13 sither side by the Rivers Jumna and Ganges, they are close to water-carriage, and
14 therefore the most inferior timber is of some value. Surrounded as they are by
15 privato lands, there always will be disputes, and thieving will be carried on to a certain
16 extent.
17 67. A good map is required for this division, more so than for any other, and
18 those at present available are totally inadequate. The Trigonometrical Survey map is
19 on too small a scale to be of any use, and the forest map is merely a prismatic compass
20 survey of the Government forests, and does not show tho natural features of the coun-
21 try, or the boundarics of villages and grants. The forost boundary pillars certainly
22 are marked, but the map having been made before the actual boundaries were doter-
23 mined, the pillars have been marked in since, and of courso are not correctly placed.
24 Although it is, I believe, as good a map as could be compiled from a prismatic compass
25 survey of such broken ground, it is quite impossible to determine the exact position of
26 the pillars by reference to it. It is useless as a forest mapin many respects: no natural
27 features of the country being shown, it is impossiblo to use it for dividing the forests
28 into blocks and valuing the amount of timber; itis of no help whatever to the Forest
29 Officer as « reference map for deciding cases of encroachments of boundaries or
30 other similar casos when not on the spot. When passes for export of timbor, &c.,
31 from grants and villages are brought for countersignature to the Forest Officer, as
32 is the custom in the Doon, it would be a great alvantage if he could, by roferring
33 to his map, see the exact position and extent of these villages. The present maps aro
34 useless for this.
35 G8. A map on a large scalo, not Jess than 8 inches to 1 mile, is what we require,
36 giving all the natural features of the country, the boundaries of all villages, grants,
37 and forests, and the boundary pillars. It should include the whole of the Doon, witha
38 portion of the Lower Himalayas, the Sewalick range, and all the forests belonging to the
39 Division in the Saharunpore District, with the villages bordering onthem. Sucha map
40 cannot be made by the Forest Survey cstablishment, and it will be far better and
41 cheaper in tho ond to get the Great Trigonomotrical Survey Department to do it; it
42 would be useful to the Revonuo as well as to the Forest Department.
43 69. Farming out of minor forest produce was attempted in the Doon during the
44 past year, and the rosults are fairly satisfactory for a first attempt. The revonue from
45 the whole of the minor forest produco was raised 574 por cent. on that of the year pre-
46 ecding, and the leases contributed a small portion towards this increase. It is believed
47 that most of them paid their holders well, 30 it is hoped that next year there may he
48 some competition and prices be raised. Portions only of the produce in certain tracts
49 wore leased, as it was found impossible to induce a contractor to tuke the whole of the
50 minor produce in any ono tract. Tho officer in charge of the division writes as
51 follows:—
52 ‘¢1 had desired to portion out the Sub-Sewalick forest into divisions, and let the
53 whole of the minor produco in each division to one man, whom I could then fix with