( 40 ) 

 Abstract. 



22 Officers' Rest-houses, @ Rs. ] ,000 

 5 Range Quarters, @ 1,000 



17 Sub-range Quarters ^ 500 

 75 Forest Guards' Ckaukis< 200 

 10 Wells <a ,, 200 



Total 



Rs, 



22,000 

 5,010 

 8,500 



15,000 

 2,000 



52,500 



). Systematic Organisation of Forest Villages. 



116. The rules which govern the establishment, constitution and management of Forest 

 Villages are laid down in Revenue Book Circular VII (2;. In order to complete their organisa- 

 tion their boundaries should.be clearly defined by permanent serially numbered marks. A 

 map of each village on the scale of 1G iuclies=l mile should be made, showing, besides its 

 boundaries, the village site and the limits of each field or holding, which should be dis- 

 tinguished by a serial number. A field register should be prepared and kept corrected up to 

 date, giving the serial number of the fields, their respective acreages, the names and caste of 

 the tenants, the nature of the crops grown, the rate of assessment and the amount of rent. 

 The maximum number of plough and of milch cattle allowed to be kept and grazed free by the 

 several families will be fixed and every attempt at professional cattle-breeding or herding will 

 be suppressed, and to this end an accurate return of cattle kept by each family will be pre- 

 pared on the 1 st July of each year and submitted to the Divisional Officer on the earliest 

 subsequent date, and a copy thereof kept in the Range and Sub-range offices for the purpose 

 of subsequent verification from time to time. 



More forest villages than the existing ones are required for the proper working of the 

 forests, particularly in the Dhanwahi and Sihora Ranges and also with special reference to 

 the agri-sylvicultural scheme of reboisement prescribed in paragraph 111 above. 



CHAPTER V. MISCELLANEOUS. 

 ARTICLE 1. Exploitation of Bamboos. 



117. Until the new generation of bamboos (see paragraph 46 above) becomes produc- 

 tive in another 6 8 years there will be little produce to cut, especially as the surviving 

 clumps are all in a poor condition owing to past unsystematic exploitation and overcutting ; 

 this latter having only increased since the diminution of the supply consequent on the recent 

 general flowering. But as the currency of this working plan extends much beyond the time 

 when bamboo will be in full production again, it has been considered unadvisable to adopt 

 a temporary scheme of coupes devised specially for the areas which still contain productive 

 clumps in workable numbers. The following scheme accordingly takes no account of the 

 present temporary conditions and will hence reach its full application only when all the young 

 reproduction has begun to produce shoots of marketable size. A rest of one year after subjec- 

 tion to cutting for one year is considered sufficient with the close supervision we shall be able 

 to command ; hence the fixing of a rotation of two years. 



