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2 FOREST DEPARTMENT, BENGAL.
3 CHit14Gona Division.
4 Statement showing the amount realized on account of the different classes of Timber sold
5 during 1871-72.
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10 i @ 928 2 oh %
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16 Kurnafool c 60 | 20,700" 27 6" 3,264 7 $3 312 0/7 24° 19° Timber sold iu previous \cars
17 romalning unmoved at the
18 commencement of the yoar.
19 Sungoo ...0 aan we 31 657 11 7 114.13 3 6 7 5& 31 3 8
20 Mamoree a 5 0 «0 16 0 010 ¢ 3.86 0 Timber remaining unmoved
21 at the close of tho year.
22 Bagkhaloo 32 207 8 0 87 6 8 1 23 8 6 5 10) Balance removed from depots
23 by purchascra during the
24 year
25 Hulda 1 42 8 20 0 20 0 14 2 8
26 bs pean RA ERE EDI EOE SL TAL LOO ao
27 Total O16 (21,658 0 0 $,419 15 en) Ces nee
28 H. H. Davis,
29 Asst. Consr. of Forests, Chittagong Division.
30 Dacca.
31 105. The Sealtok Ghat at Cachar, whore an immense quantity of forest
32 yvroduce is stopped, and where a toll is collected, has this year produced
33 s. 11,469. Itisin charge of the Deputy Commissioner. No reliablo statistics
34 of the quantity of oer passing down the rivercan be given. Proposals were
35 lately made to place it in charge of a forest officer, but the i did. not
36 commend itself to Government for sanction.
37 106. These collections are made upon licenses to cut timber, licenses to
38 catch elephants, licenses to collect general forest
39 produce, and sale of India-rubber Mehuls.
40 107. These collections amounted during the year under review to
41 Rs. 60,529, as per statement given in section V, Financial. It will be seen that the
42 collections tor sale of timber and licenses to cut amount to only Rs, 4,013 in
43 1670-71, and Rs. 1,855-8 in 1871-72. Asin Assam alone very large quantities of
44 timber, as also boats, are taken out of the forests every year and takon down the
45 river for sale, it 18 quite clear that only a very small portion of the revenue which
46 should be collected is paid to tlie Government treasury, und that timber taken
47 by the Public Works Department and for other Government purposes is not
48 shown at all.
49 108. Iv is certain that revenue collections on forest produce generally ure
50 capable of being very largely increased if they aro properly looked after, and
51 increased revenue on the produce need not be any extra tax on tho district
52 inhabitants, as the collection of produce for domestic purposes free 1s generally
53 conceded.
54 109. The use of forest produce by inhabitants living in or near
55 the forests for their own domestic use is a question, however, which should
56 probably be decided authoritatively by Government. It seems hard that such
57 inhabitants should be made to pay for such produce as they require; at the
58 same time in the aggregate the amounts which might be collected from
59 villagers for the nght of collecting what they require from Government land
60 would be considerable, and were it ever so small, would establish a control and
61 prevent encroachment and waste and the establishing of rights in forests
62 which hereafter may be difficult to get rid of when the forests are much more
63 valuable.
64 Collections by civil officers.