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thalers per month, or 180 per annum. This includes all 

 remuneration paid for instruction/ 



Such were the arrangements at the time specified. They 

 are substantially the same still. By many it is held and 

 argued that an equally good appropriate and efficient 

 education, instruction, and training, might be obtained in 

 Britain, if there were established a School of Forestry in 

 connection with some one or other of our existing educa- 

 tional institutions ; that this might be done at much less 

 expense ; and that probably an expenditure not exceeding 

 what is at present incurred in the European preparation 

 of candidates for employment in the forest service in India 

 might, if judiciously applied, cover the whole expense of 

 maintaining such a school for the instruction of candidates 

 for employment in the forest service of India, and the 

 forest service all the world over. But at present we have 

 only to do with the expenditure which is at present 

 incurred. 



A large measure of the expense of the education of the 

 officials is met by Government; a larger measure of the 

 expense of outfit and passage to India is met by the 

 Government ; and their salaries, exclusive of allowances, 

 range, as has been stated, from 300 to 1,900 a year. 



The expense has been considerable, but the results have 

 justified the steps taken. By progressive amelioration of 

 their condition, forests in India have risen greatly in value 

 and they have been vastly extended, and the revenue from 

 them has been increased apparently by hundreds of thousands 

 of pounds. According to Resolution of Government of India, 

 Financial Department, No. 2012, dated llth March 1871, 

 the latest to which I happen to have access, the estimated 

 charges for the following year 1871-72, as settled in the 

 Public Works Department, and as modified in the Finan- 

 cial Department, were 45,11,000 rupees (451,100), and 

 the receipts, 57,32,200 rupees (573,220), showing a 

 surplus of revenue over expenditure of 12,21,200 rupees 



