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APPENDIX VI. 



CIRCULAR No. OF 1900-1. 



FROM 



E. E. FERNANDEZ, ESQ., 



OFFICIATING CONSERVATOR OF FORESTS, NORTHERN CIRCLB, 



Central Provinces, 

 To 



THK DIVISIONAL FOREST OFFICERS, 



Mandla, Jubbulpore, Narsinghpur and Betul. 



Dated Jubbulpore, the 20th April 1900. 



SIR, 



As you are no doubt aware, a very large proportion of the harra crop of our forests is 

 stolen every year through the carelessness as well as the dishonesty of our subordinates, who 

 protect themselves behind our absolute ignorance of our resources in that product. An 

 enumeration of the harra trees according to size-classes in each block and an accurate 

 estimate of the yield of the type tree of each class in (a) a good year, (6) a moderate year 

 and (c) a bad year will at once afford us a certain basis for checking the actual outturn each 

 year and circumventing fraud and neglect of duty. I accordingly forward herewith a set of 

 instructions together with an extract from the Working Plan Report, for the forests of the 

 Jubbulpore Division, and beg that you will at once commence an enumeration survey on the 

 lines indicated therein. 



2. As the enumeration survey of each block is completed, the results obtained will be 

 at once communicated to this office. 



3. The estimates of the outturn of type trees will be made partly by the Divisional 

 Forest Officer personally, partly by the Working Plans Assistant, and partly by other upper 

 lubordinates, whose character books afford a guarantee of their trustworthiness. Every year, 

 on the 1st February, a complete report on the experiments made to establish the outturn 

 of type tree will be submitted to this office. 



I have the honour to be, 



SIR, 

 Your most obedient servant, 



E. E. FERNANDEZ, 



Offg. Conservator of Forests, Northern Circle, 



Central Provinces. 



