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Inland, the Patella superintend the cutting according to the per- 

 mits, and get a fee of 1 anna* for each tree marked. 



20. Bamboos pay a seignorage of As. 8 per 100 throughout. 

 There are three items in the account- current. Taking the first 

 only, viz. bamboos to villagers, it is shown that they have 

 paid Es. 868-7-0 for an article which was formerly free. This 

 amount is collected from the villagers on the frontier, or from 

 persons living in towns, as ryots, who live in the jungles, do not 

 pay for bamboos used in building their huts. 



21. Firewood Account.— If compared with previous years, this 

 shows a decrease of income. It is, however, only apparently so. 

 Above ghat, we received nothing at all. The Darwar forests 

 were thrown open (of which the Desais or Inamdars, who had 

 some forests on their inams, chiefly availed themselves), and so 

 no one required this article from us. The Darwar forests being 

 now closed again, it is likely that next season there will be calls 

 for firewood. 



22. Billet-cutting from the kanagaluf trees was stopped last 

 year, but 6284 defective jungle trees, of 43 kinds, in six jungles, 

 were marked and sold by auction in six lots. In the aggregate, 

 Ks. 1715 were realised. The purchasers were permitted to cut 

 the wood in any shape they pleased, but have to pay, besides the 

 jungle darkhast, As. 2 ^additional for every| candy of wood used 

 for building purposes, and As. 12 for every ton of firewood. Two 

 years were granted for the work. There are now cut 5928 pieces, 

 containing 2706f candies, and 124,000 billets of firewood, the 

 produce of 5191 trees. The result is :— 



5191 trees cost Es. 1406 11 



2706f candies at As. 2, . 338 5 



124,000 billets of firewood, about 372 tons, 279 



Rs. 2024 0, or As. 6J per tree. 

 The benefit consists not only in getting a small value for wood 



* This experiment was agreed upon by the collector, sub-collector, and 

 myself, which Mr J. D. Eobinson has reported as working well. 



t Dillenia pmtagyna. This tree is in great request by the Bombay mer- 

 chants, from the wood splitting easily. 



