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33. The following Forest villages, the areas of which, although part of A class Forest, 

 have for convenience sake been excluded from the acreages given in the statement under 

 paragraph 31 above, belong to the Division: 



34. The three preceding area statements are summarised below : 



ARTICLE 2. State of the Boundaries. 



35. The boundaries are defined by cleared lines 35 45 feet wide, at every angle of which 

 a boundary mark has been placed, each visible from the next one on either side of it. In 

 the case of blocks 17, 18 and 20 all the boundary marks are of pakka masonry. Elsewhere 

 they are conical stone cairns having a basal diameter of 6 7 feet, with a wooden post rising 

 up out of the apex and bearing the serial number of the boundary mark. Formerly the 

 numbers used to be painted and had frequently to be renewed ; great economy has now been 

 secured by branding them into the wood. The decay of the central wooden post has some- 

 times necessitated the placing, in a conspicuous place on the cairn, of a stone slab on which 

 the serial number is painted. 



36. Where Government Forest marches with private land, half the width of the 

 boundary line has been cut in Government Forest, half on the private land, the owner of 

 which is also, by his Record of Rights, responsible for keeping his half clear of trees and 

 shrubs. 



37. The masonry boundary pillars are almost without exception in good repair and 

 numbered accurately. Such is, however, far from being the case with the other boundary 

 marks, many of which indeed do not occupy the positions shown for them on the Forest 

 Survey Maps. It is certain that all these boundaries will have to be checked and duly 

 corrected. 



ARTICLE 3. Legal Position of the Forests. 



38. All the forests are Reserved Forests under Section 34 of the Indian Forest Act, 

 and were declared such by Chief Commissioner's Notification Nos. 887 and 888 published in 

 the Central Provinces Gazette of the 22nd February 1879. With the exception of the 



