522 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XVI. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



SHOOTING IN THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. 



No. 3482 of 1905. 



Revenue Department, 

 Bombay Castle, 29th April, 1905. 

 To A. C. LOGAN, Esq., I.C.S. 



Sir,— In reply to your letter, dated the 6th April 1905, inquiring whether the 

 new foresc regulations prohibiting shooting in notified forests except under a 

 license chargeable with a fee of Rs. 25, apply to the shooting of birds other 

 than game, for scientific purposes, I am to say that in forests which have been 

 notifiad under No. 3 (a) of the Rules published in Government Notification 

 No. 5627, dated the 18th August 1903, shooting/or any purpose is not allowable 

 otherwise than in accordance with that Rule and the Rules following it. 



I have the honour, etc., 



G. KEATINGE, 

 Under-Secretary to i-iovernment. 



Mahableshwar, May \lth, 1905. 

 To 



The SECRETARY, 



Bombay Natural History Society. 

 Sir, — I think it worth while to send you the above copy of a letter from the 

 Revenue Department, that members of the Society may know how they stand 

 with regard to the new forest regulations. These apply to all forests of any 

 consequence in the Presidency. 



Yours faithfully, 

 A. C. LOGAN, I.C.S. 



Revenue Department, 

 Bombay Castle, 18th August 1903. 

 No. 5627— In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 25, clause (i), 

 Section 31, clause (j), and Section 75, clause (fZ), of the Indian Forest Act, 1878, 

 (VII of 1k78), and in supersession of Government Notification No. 6254, dated 

 the 25th July 1894, published at page 751 of Part I of the Bombay Govern- 

 ment Gazette (except in regard to the Province of Sind), His Excellency the 

 Governor in Council is pleased, with the previous sanction of the Governor- 

 General in Council, to prescribe the following rules to regulate hunting, shoot- 

 ing, poisoning of water and setting of traps or snares in the Reserved and 

 Protected forests of the Bombay Presidency excluding Sind : — 



1. The following acts are absolutely prohibited in all Reserved and 

 Protected forests : 

 (a) the poisoning of rivers or other water, and the explosion of dyna- 

 mite therein for the purpose of killing or catching fish ; 

 (6) the setting of spring guns ; 



