APPENDIX XI. 

 Agreement with owners of ravine waste lands. 



This indenture made the day of 191 Between 



the Secretary of State for India in Council hereinafter called " the 

 Secretary of State " of the one part and eon of 



resident of in the district of 



hereinafter called " the owner " of the other part AND 

 WHEREAS the Local Government of the United Provinces of 

 Agra and Oudh hereinafter called " the Local Government " have 

 decided to take over certain areas of land upon the application 

 of the owner of the areas aforesaid with a view to the preservation 

 formation or conservation of forests thereon AND WHEREAS 

 the said owner made an application on the 



day of to the said Local Govern- 



ment praying that the land set forth in the schedule hereto 

 annexed may be taken over under the management of the Forest 

 department of the said Local Government for the purposes afore- 

 mentioned AND WHEREAS the said Secretary of State and the 

 said owner have agreed that the said land set forth in the schedule 

 hereto annexed shall be placed under the management of the said 

 Forest department subject to the following conditions: 



(1) That the land be gazetted as reserved forests under sections 

 4 and 19 of the Indian Forest Act (Act VII of 1878). 



(2) That subject to the terms of the forest settlement the 

 Forest Officer appointed by the said Forest department in that 

 behalf shall have full powers of control regarding the treatment 

 of the land and allotment and regulation of grazing the felling of 

 trees and removal of all produce and shall have powers to close 

 such areas to grazing as he may deem fit for such period as he may 

 think necessary and to impose such grazing fees in such areas as 

 he may think fit. 



(3) That any complaint against the action of the Forest depart- 

 ment or any dispute arising under this agreement shall be referred 

 to the Collector of the Etawah district. An appeal from the 

 decision of the Collector shall lie to the Commissioner of the 

 Allahabad division whose decision shall be final. 



(4) That the Local Government will pay the whole expenditure 

 and take the whole of the receipts until it has repaid itself the 

 money which it has spent on the land set forth in the schedule 

 hereto annexed together with interest at 4 per cent. 



(5) That when the Local Goyernment has repaid itself for its 

 expenditure and the said interest thereon the surplus of the income 



