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2 the responsibility of any damage done in it. I found that this was impossible. As a
3 rule, men will only take one kind of produce, and they seem vory whimsical about
4 the limits of the portion of forest which they lease.
5 ‘© One man will take a leaso of the Bhabur grass from a certain point to a certain
6 other point, and if he cannot get exactly these limits, he will not take it at all. If
7 these aro agreed to, and an attempt made to fix the space enclosed as a division, and
8 to let some other produce on it to another man, it will in most cases bo found that
9 these bounds will not suit him, and he must have part of this and part of tho next
10 division, or none at all. I could not get over this difficulty last year, but will try
11 to make a better partition next year.
12 “*T found that the holders of the leases did not, as a rule, export much themselves,
13 but generally contented themselves with collecting tho revenue which came in the
14 ordinary course to the chowkee.
15 *¢ The patrols of course vory much dislike the system of leasing. I have already
16 obtained 2 conviction against one man for levying a toll on his own account from
17 the carts passing out, and I have a similar charge against anothor
18 ‘TI have also two cases for exporting green wood against contractors who had
19 tahen leases of dry fullen firewood.
20 ‘¢ The fact is that most of the contractors aro ready to pay the establishment to
21 let them take out produce to which they have no right, and the establishment are
22 only too ready to enter into such an arrangement. When they quarrel over it, as they
23 usually do, the matter is brought to notice.
24 ‘“¢T only issued leases for firewood in two instances, and in cach of these I am afraid
25 that the contractors took out wood that was certainly not firewood.
26 ‘“‘ If the whole of the minor produce could be leased, tho establishment would have
27 nothing to do but watch the timber; but this cannot be done for the present at any
28 rate. I havo explainod above my objection to include firowood in any lease, and the
29 districts removed from the large roads are not easily Icased.”
30 JOUNSAR DIVISION.
31 70. Fifty-two cases of breaches of forest rules wero disposed of by the Forest
32 Officer in charge of the division, of which 43 were proved, and 9 dismissed : 16 cases
33 were taken before tho District Magistrate ; convictions were obtained in 5, 2 were dis-
34 missed, and 9 are still pending.
35 71. Poor Captain Tillingston died when in charge of this division, and his
36 death was very much felt by all of the department who knew him, for though he had
37 been with us only about four months, his nice kind manner, and the zcalous interest he
38 took in his work, had thoroughly endeared him to us. On the 15th October, when
39 going from Doobun to the Tonse sleepor works, his horse fell off the road, and both
40 were killed.
41 The Mundhole Canal slide was his invention. How happy he would have beon
42 had he been spared to seo it carried out and working successfully !
43 BHAGFRUTTEE Drvision.
44 72. Thero has not been one single case of breach of forest rules in this division
45 during the year. Everything has gone on most satisfactorily under Mr, O’Callaghan,
46 the Deputy Conservator in charge, and the sloeper works aro most certainly a very
47 marked success.
48 GorvUCKPORE DIVISION.
49 73. Two cases of breach of forest rules were brought before the District Mugis-
50 trate, and convictions obtained in both.