No. i J2-W.-P., dated Simla, the 1 5th August 1900. 



From B. RIBBENTROP, Esq., c. I. E., Inspector-General of Forests to the Govt. of India, 

 To The Secretary to the Honourable the Chief Commissioner, Central Provinces. 



In accordance with Article 88 of the Forest Department Code, I have the honour to 

 forward, for the orders of the Honourable the Chief Commissioner, a Working-Plan for the 

 forests of the Jubbulpore Division, received from the Conservator, Northern Circle, under 

 cover of his letter No. 3150, dated the 1 3th June 1 900, a copy of which is appended. I approve 

 of the proposals made for working these forests, and beg to recommend the plan for sanc- 

 tion with effect from the 1st November 1899. 



a. A summary description of compartments would have made the report more com- 

 plete and easier to follow, besides furnishing useful data for future comparison ; but in view 

 of the provision under paragraph 130 and what is said in paragraph 3 of the Conservator's 

 forwarding letter the point may be waived. 



3. Paragraph 75. I beg to refer you to paragraph 3 of my letter No. I43-W.-P., 

 dated the 23rd June 1897, anc * to sav tnat t * ie remar ks therein made regarding the obstacle 

 to forest trade apply equally as well to the present case. 



4. The index map referred to in paragraph 30 does not accompany the plan. 



5. It is observed that in paragraph 94 the rotation for the Lakhapateri and Jalasur 

 Blocks of the Murwara Working-Circle is fixed at 30 years, whilst in paragraph 106 it is 

 given as 15 years. 



No. 3150, dated Jubbulpore, the I3th June 1900. 



From A. SMYTHIES, Esq..B. A., Offg. Conservator of Forests, Northern Circle, 

 Central Provinces. 



To The Inspector-General of Forests. 



In continuation of correspondence resting with your letter No. 73-W. P., dated the 

 nth May 1900, and in accordance with Article 88 of the Forest Department Code, I have 

 the honour to submit, herewith (in duplicate), for your remarks and for transmission to the 

 Chief Commissioner, the Working-Plan for the forests of the Jubbulpore Division. 



a. With reference to paragraph 3 of your letter quoted above, I beg to say that, with 

 the exception of the Bargi Range, which I examined myself, the descriptions of compart- 

 ments have been so prepared that they would all have to be completely re-written in order 

 to adapt them for being printed, the compartments being in nearly every case portions of 

 blocks. I have not the time to re-write them and in consequence of the famine relief oper- 

 ations, it will be impossible to spare any officer for the work until October next. To have 

 waited until then before finally submitting the plan to you would have involved locking-up 

 the type for four months longer. You were, however, pleased to raise no objection to the 

 omission of the description of compartments in the case of the three plans already sanc- 

 tioned for the Narsinghpur and Hoshangabad Divisions, and it was for this reason that the 

 description was left out of the present plan also. 



3. If you now consider a plan incomplete without the summary description of com- 

 partments, I will do my best to have the description for this plan prepared as soon as 

 possible and submitted to you later on in print. But I beg to invite perusal of paragraph 

 130 of the plan, from which you will observe that it is proposed to gradually draw up a 

 description of the forests, than which nothing could be more full and accurate, and I trust 

 that you will agree to omit from the printed plans the rough descriptions made preliminary 

 to the framing of the plans, subject to the condition that these preliminary descriptions are 

 filed in my office for ready reference whenever required. 



4. The defect pointed out in paragraph 2 of your letter could not be corrected except 

 at the risk of dislocating the type of all the pages from 14 onwards. You will, however, 

 permit me to respectfully submit that in my opinion all the details on pages 15 and 16 and 18 

 and 19 are extremely important and are necessary to the proper control of exploitation and 

 export. Relegated to an appendix, they would escape notice or at least would not be referred 

 to as often as their importance requires. The details on page 20 have been entered there, 

 as I am hopeful that by giving them prominence, I may help towards the early removal of the 

 restrictions which the toll stations on the Nerbudda and Hiran rivers place on the export 

 of produce from the forests of the Bargi Range and from the Damoh District. 



5- In compliance with paragraph 5 of your letter, I have printed the notifications in 

 question as Appendix V, and in compliance with paragraph 6, all extracts from demi-official 

 letters have been omitted from Appendix III. 



Secretariat Press, Nagpur : A H.R., 10-10-190075. 



