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2 12. The total area of the Government Forests in Oudh, at present
3 amounts to about 824 square miles, or 89 square
4 Aron of the Oudh Government Forest#. 16g more than the area shown in the Oudh
5 Forest Report for 1870-71.
6 13. The resumed grants in Oudh made over to this department are
7 The resumed grants are not burdened pot burdened with any private rights other than
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9 nah Se ei other than theclutnsof thoclaims of the grantees.
10 14. The forests of the Kheri Division, with the exception of the reserved
11 ae __. grants, and the forests of the Bharaich Division,
12 rete high timer forents of toe er with the exception of the 8th section, are still
13 forests ure still subject tu the three mle encumbered by the forest privilege given by Oudh
14 ons Forest Rule VII, to villagers living in the forests,
15 or within three miles of the Government boundary line, to cut such timber as
16 they may roquire for their own Lond-fide use, for domestic or farming purposes,
17 such timber not being any of the eight reserved woods.
18 15. No means have as yet been devised for commuting the privilege
19 No meams have as yet heon dovised for above referred to in an equitable manner. The
20 commuting the three mile rule in the section of forest in the Bharaich Division, affected
21 Kheri and Bharaich Divisions, ee Je
22 by this rule, are too small and too much sur-
23 rounded by a dense population to admit of any exchange being made, by giving
24 up a sufficient portion of them for the exclusive use of the villagers as was done
25 in the Gonda Division and 8th Section of the Bharaich forests; while those
26 in the Kheri Division are tuo valuable to admit of the curtailment necessary
27 to eflect such an exchange.
28 16. With reference to para. 3 of the Chief Commisioner’s minute on the
29 Free supplies of timber and forost pro- Oudh Forest Report for 1870-71, orders have
30 duce to Rijas, Talukdirs and Mahéjuna been issued that no Rajah, T’alukddr or Mahdjun,
31 ; ssa living within three miles from the forest boundary,
32 shall be allowed free supplies of timber or other forest produce out of the
33 Government forest, but must pay for what they require.
34 17. The Tharoos of the Gonda Forests petitioned that they might be
35 Temporary concession made_ to the Tha allowed wood and grass for domestic and agricul-
36 roo villagers of the Gonda Division, on tural purposes free, as they could not pay for the
37 sect Rptiaie large quantities of grass and other materials
38 required in building and roofing their large houses. They promised in return
39 to collect a large quantity of sissoo, khair and sil seed, and to plant with sil or
40 sissoo according as the ground was high or low, a pucca beegah per household,
41 This arrangement was agreed to as an experiment. The Tharoos collected a
42 large quantity of seed, but they havo not fulfilled the remainder of their
43 contract. They subsequently agreed to plant a kutcha beegah per village, but
44 it is not certain that they have done this either.
45 18. The line of demarcation between the Gonda Government forests,
46 Now demarcation of the Gonda frente, 20d the forest assigned to the Mahfraja of Bul-
47 " rampur has been widened to forty feet from the
48 Hutia Koond to the Ara Nalla, and posts of green Jigna wood (Odina Wodicr),
49 havo been erected as boundary marks at the angles of the Government forcst
50 boundary, wherever no permanent inarks existed. These posts will sprout dur-
51 ing the rains and form durable land marks.
52 19." The three lines, 100 foet wide, which were cut some years ago from
53 Teas wanliy tego Gon faker the southern boundary of the Gonda forests
54 eae northward to the foot of the hills, to divide these
55 furests into four sections have been cleared, and roads, 15 feet wide made along
56 the centre of two of them, which will facilitate communication with the interior
57 of the Gonda forests.