Ixviii APPENDIX. 



(iv) Range Officers will also report on the measures they 

 propose to carry out under the three preceding sub- 

 sections, what outer forest it will be possible to burn 

 in conjunction with the villagers in April and May 

 in the coming season. See the people and let them 

 know and explain the policy to them. We [want to 

 make burning possible and cheap, so their co-operation 

 is required, but they must burn with us and under 

 the control of our staff, otherwise fires will occur, 

 (v) Firelines both exterior and interior will be burnt as 

 early in the season as possible, they should generally 

 be completed by the end of February. Needles will 

 fall on them later on, and fire patrols must keep clear 

 strip on the line as broad as the length of the line 

 under their control permits. This work has often 

 been overlooked by Range Officers while others have 

 demonstrated that if kept at work firewatchers can do 

 this quite well. 



Outer unprotected forests, including open civil, can be burnt 

 outwards so far as it will burn without giving trouble at the time 

 that the exterior fire lines are burnt, but the main burning will be 

 done in April or May when the villagers want to do it. They will 

 be told to ask the Range Officer to arrange dates for them to burn 

 it under control of the Forest staff. 



(a) Care must be taken over the number of men called out 



to fires, definite limits as to number cannot yet be 

 fixed. 



(b) Opportunity should not be lost to impress on villagers 



accustomed to burn " C " class forest adjoining 

 reserves, that they are required to give notice to the 

 Range Officers of the date on which they wish to 

 burn. The rules regarding this are laid down in 

 G. O. no. 76/XIV 61, dated the llth January, 

 1918, copies of which have been issued to all 

 patwaris. 



