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2 ordered to be transferred to this Department. Careful vernacular “ misls” of
3 boundaries, rights, &c., have been incorporated in the Settlement record, and
4 copies prepared for deposit in the Forest Office. The Forest maps will shortly
5 be photozincographed.
6 9, Inthe winter of the year under report the Khdnptr Rakhs, or fuel
7 tracts of stunted Acacia Modesta, Olea, and other shrubby
8 trees used for burning, situate on the lower hills beyond
9 the confines of Rdéwalpindi, have been demarcated, surveyed and mapped on
10 exactly similar principles and under the same rules as the above hill forests.
11 The report had not during the official year been submitted for sanction.
12 10. The work to be done in order to complete the district is the demarca-
13 tion of the Kaghdn, Koush, and Bogarmay valleys in the
14 same way—a work which it is anticipated will be accom-
15 plished before the close of 1872-73.
16 Khanpdr low hills,
17 Work remaining.
18 11. J have to add that some expense will have to be incurred in order to
19 Demareation to be rene Change some of the principal pillars of rough stone into
20 dored permanent. cemented masonry ones, having distinct numbers on them.
21 12, It is important to remark on the absolute necessity of numbering main
22 Remarks on the use of Plllars; for, in the first place, it should be the peremptory
23 boundary pillara and the duty of every forest watcher and forester in his beat
24 BUT on Aner and circle to report periodically on the state of every pil-
25 lar, so as to be sure that demarcation once made is not only thoroughly known
26 to all Forest Officers, but is not allowed to fall into disrepair by want of prompt
27 “attention to small injuries ; in the next place, a visitor inspecting, coming to
28 ‘a numbered pillar with a proper map in his hand, can, by aid of the number, at
29 once identify his position ; and, lastly, such numbering facilitates the description
30 of the locality of fires and illicit fellings in many cases, and of boundary
31 encroachment in all cases.
32 13. I note this here with a view to direct the attention of officers who
33 are demarcating forests to a subject which, apparently trivial in itself, may lead
34 to important consequences.
35 14. Rdwalpind: Forests—These have been transferred to the Forest
36 Department,—at least all of them which contain wood, viz., the forests in the hill
37 Tahsils of Marri and Kahitita, and the ‘rakhs,’ or fuel reserves, in the plain
38 portions, known as “2nd class rakhs.” The 3rd class rakhs are only grazing
39 lands, and not forests at all. is
40 15, The ‘2nd class rakhs” are demarcated at the time of settlement on
41 “Ond Classiakbs" of the principle, always adopted, of setting aside a large area
42 Réwalpmdu. of waste or jungle land as common for the use of the
43 villages, and demarcating off the surplus as “Government jungle.” The very
44 Why derfarcated rakhs Nature of this demarcation left the Government jungle
45 aro Stato Forests thooretically at any rate, as the unencumbered property of
46 the State. The year under report did not afford time to have this demarcation
47 examined, and itis probable that itis imperfect, and that some oxpense in
48 renewing and putting up proper pillars will have to be incurred ; but the state
49 of the hill Tahsils demanded more closely the attention of the local officer.
50 16. Every species of forest license was found to prevail ;—everybody
51 Bad stato of conservancy ee to take what he hked, and to graze where he
52 at transfer. liked; there was little or no check on the most uncon-
53 trolled system of permits, and very few people, if any, who were lawfully
54 bound to pay grazing and other dues did so.
55 17. This general Jax system was due in a measure to the condition of the
56 eee! forests, as, for various reasons which are stated in the Settle-
57 ment Report, no attempt was made to separate the forests
58 as in other places, and aaa off a surplus of forest area for Government
59 exclusively ; but Government retained the whole, allowing (in theory) rights