GO 



Well, on tl.;it hand. t.o, lean present you with what I consider satisfactory 

 S. Tli.- iit-t. surplus of the Indian Forest Department, after meeting all 



luis In-rii us follows since 1804: 



NI-:T REVENUE OF INDIAN STATE FORESTS. 



1M>4 (>7, ;i\ i't;t"r annual net revenue 106,615 



1867-7^ 133,929 



ls7i> 77, " 219,919 



is77-,si>. < " 243,792 



1882 N 384,752 



The annual net revenue during the period 1882-87 was nearly four times 

 that of the period 1864-67, and although I am not in possession of the detailed 

 figures for the years 1887-ScS and 1888-89, I may state that the gross revenue 

 i alized in the latter year surpasses that for the period 1882-87 by about 

 300,000, Calculated for the whole area of the forests the revenue is as yet 

 small, but there is little doubt, if any, that twenty-five years hence the net 

 surplus will be four times the present amount, provided the Government of India 

 perseveres in the forest policy as developed in the past. The growth of tress is 

 of slow progress, and of all branches of the administration of a country the forest 

 departments require to be more thoroughly guided than any other by the watch - 

 wnnl, i-onrinuity of action." 



BURMA. 



EXTRACTS FROM RULES RELATING TO RESERVED FORESTS. 



1. Within a forest reserve no person shall poison water or set traps or 

 snares, and no person shall hunt, shoot or fish without a license. Any person 

 who in a reserved forest, in contravention of this rule, hunts, shoots, fishes, poisons 

 waters, or sets traps or snares is punishable under section 25 of the Act with fine, 

 which may extend to Rs. 50, or when the damage resulting from his offence 

 amounts to more than Rs. 25, to double the amount of such damage. 



2. Such license may be granted by the deputy commissioner or forest officer 

 in whose local jurisdiction such reserve is situated. Provided that no such license 

 may allow hunting or shooting during the season when forest fires most com- 

 monly occur, namely : from the 1st March to the 1st June, nor the hunting or 

 shooting of pheasants, jungle-fowl, partridges, quails or hares, during the breeding 

 season, namely : from the 1st March to the 1st September. 



3. Such license to be in form provided, and a fee of Rs. 10 may be charged 

 for the issue thereof, 



4. Between the 5th day of January and the 15th day of June no person 

 shall, within two miles of the boundary of a reserve, leave any fire burning 

 unless he shall have taken the following precautions, namely: 



(a) He shall, at least one week before kindling such fire, have given notice 

 of his intention to do so to the nearest forest officer. 



(6) He shall have cleared of inflammable matter a belt of ground of not 

 less than twenty feet in breadth around the place whereon he proposes to kindle 

 such fire. 



