338 India, 



executive service, being in administrative functions 

 independent of the former. 



An Inspector-General, directly under the Secretary 

 of Revenue and Agriculture, (for some time under the 

 Home Department) is the head of the service, and acts 

 as professional adviser both of the Imperial and the 

 Provincial Governments. But this head of the service 

 is shorn of most of its executive functions, all adminis- 

 trative matters being reserved to the provincial author- 

 ities. 



The Inspector-General has charge only of the forest 

 school administration, of forest surveys, and of the 

 making of working plans, which latter after approval 

 by the Provincial government, are in their execution 

 inspected and critically supervised by him, but with- 

 out power to enforce them, or to give direction directly 

 to the Conservators in charge (at least in Madras and 

 Burma). He also watches and reports on the progress 

 of all forestry matters in the empire. 



Peculiarities and great variety are also found in 

 other official relations and in the appointing power, 

 the general and provincial governments exercising cer- 

 tain rights in this respect. 



The Controlling Staff (57 officers in 1869, now 200) 

 under the Inspector-General, consists of Conservators, 

 Deputy Conservators and Assistant Conservators. The 

 Conservators, now 19, so far as they are not directly 

 acting as assistants in the Inspector-General's office, 

 are the heads of the provincial departments and con- 

 servatorships, and in that capacity directly subordinate 

 to the local government, which in Madras and Bomba}' 

 also has their appointment; each is in charge either of 



