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one) of the forest ; Act and seotioa of the Act unaer whioli 

 gazetted, etc. 



Rights. — Their origin and general character ; statement 

 of the areas burdened with rights and free from them ; 

 summary of rights to produce ; privileges or other concession 

 granted at the will and pleasure of Government ; adequacy 

 of the forest resources to provide for the exercise of recorded 

 irights or of admitted privileges ; actual effect of such 

 exercise upon the crops. 



General desoripiion of the forest crop. — Compbsition 

 ^nd condition of the crop ; types of forest and areas occupied 

 by each ; origin of the crop ; the principal species and their 

 relative proportion and importance, habitat, mode of repro- 

 -duction, size attained and rate of growth ; density of the 

 crop, blaalcs, and glades ; state of the reproduction ; princi- 

 pal products yielded ; grass and other minor products, etc. 



Injuries to which the forest is liable. — Causes of injury ; 

 fires, grazing, offences of common occurrence : the best 

 means of regulating or combating the causes of injury. 



{Hi) Future sylvioultural treatment. 



Of all the subjects to he considered that which it is 

 •desirable to bear constantly in mind when passing from crop 

 to crop is the method of treatment which will probably be 

 found most suitable. For a correct general apprehension in 

 ihis respect, acquired sufficiently early in the enquiry, may 

 rshow for instance, that the existing condition of the forest 

 is such that its exploitation should, for the present, be very 

 simply regulated, say by area and by a few short cultural 

 rules only. Owing to the neglect of this precaution, work, 

 such as the detailed enumeration of stock, which has subse- 

 quently proved wholly unnecessary for the proper attain- 

 ment of the object in view, has sometimes been carried out 

 in India, thus delaying the completion of the plan while 

 rendering it needlessly lengthy, complicated and costly. 



(«») System of management. 



System of management. — Past systems of management ; 

 their defects ; changes introduced and their results ; manage- 

 ment in force and its results ; regulation of fires, grazing, 

 rights, etc. 



Works of improvement undertaken. — Nature of works ; 

 ^heir object ; results attained. 



