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men or cattle, in what localities and in what propor- 

 tions — these are points to be worked out gradually by 

 the Department. 



Again, rules will be required to regulate the use and 

 prevent the abuse of these communal forests or groves. 

 A system of management will have to be elaborated, 

 the leading idea of which must be to induce the people 

 to act to the greatest possible extent for themselves. 

 A dozen other details will have to be dealt with, but 

 there is not one single difficulty to be encountered of 

 which we shall not be able to say solvitur eundo. 



I am quite sure that, looking at the work sketched 

 out, many able and experienced officers will say at 

 first, "It is too vast, it cannot be done." But these 

 same officers would not deny that they could, if 

 vested with the powers above contemplated, make all 

 necessary arrangements and carry out the scheme in, 

 say, a dozen villages. Nor, again, that having done 

 this, they could repeat the operation more readily in 

 another group of hamlets ; nor that when thus far 

 advanced, their senior native revenue officers could 

 carry on the work on the same lines in many villages, 

 though some would still require their personal inter- 

 vention to overcome difficulties. Nor would they 

 deny that one pergunnah completed, the neighbour- 

 ing ones would be much more easily dealt with, and 

 so on. The truth is the fagot, taken in the lump, is 

 rather alarming, but the sticks are all very little, 

 and you have only to pick the fagot to pieces, to 

 make the task a very easy, although a tedious and 

 lengthy, one. 



Of course works like these are not to be commenced 



