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would be told that payment for work done would 

 be dependent on the circumstances of the fire and 

 would be decided by the orders of the Divisional 

 Forest Officer. The regulations for payment are 

 based on the resolutions of the meeting of Conservators 

 on the 16th August, 1921, which will be followed. 

 4. The measures that are required to carry out the policy 

 defined in paragraph 2 above are : 



(i) The fixing of the boundary of the forest to be protected 



outside which burning will be done annually 

 (a) When the forests have been long under protection as 

 in the case of old reserves this boundary will be as 

 hitherto the boundary of the reserved forest. At 

 present there is generally at the best only a very 

 narrow strip often not properly cleared, called a fire 

 line round the boundaries, with the result that it is 

 not safe to burn the open civil forests outside them 

 in April and May. Here what is required is the 

 clearing of a proper fireline wholly inside our 

 boundary. The width will vary somewhat with 

 the locality, the minimum at present is to be 50' 

 and the maximum 100'. Range officers will report 

 in detail what clearing is required and from what 

 portions of the lines the material can be used for 

 fuel supplies or failing this, what parts they can get 

 cut free of cost by villagers in return for the 

 free grant of the material (not to be counted against 

 their rights allowances). They will give an estimate 

 for the cost of the remaining work. 



When the boundary is along a cart road in the strip 50' 

 on either side, cutting is not allowed without 

 reference to the Public Works department, nor is 

 such cutting desirable as it might endanger the 

 road and would in any case remove all the shade. 



