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practicable cases, be selected near the inhabited villages, so that 

 the clearings may prove an advantage to the residents. 



5. The people may likewise cut wood required for the erection 

 of their dwelling-houses, but this privilege will be restricted to 

 bond fide ryots : the wood to be so felled must not be more than 

 3 feet in circumference at two feet from the ground, nor be one of 

 the kinds noted in par. 8. In all cases, 30 standard trees must be 

 left on every acre of ground. 



6. "Wood required for agricultural implements will be allowed 

 to be taken untaxed by all ryots ; and in the same manner bam- 

 boos also may be cut for the actual and bond fide erection of their 

 houses, not for sale. 



7. No fruit tree shall be cut down or injured. In the same 

 manner, all trees likely to become timber, as well as saplings of 

 every kind, should be preserved. 



8. The names of the trees and shrubs to be always reserved 

 for the value of the wood, or of their products, are mentioned 

 below : — 



I. — Trees reserved for the value of their timber. 



1. Sandal. 7. Palmyra. 13. Kadam.* 



2. Red Saunders. 8. Jack. 14. Babul. 



3. Ebony. 9. Acha maram. 15. Sirissa.t 



4. Satinwood. 10. Marda. 16. Catechu. 

 6. Teak. 11. Common Terminalia. 



6. Blackwood. 12. Glabrous Terminalia. 



II. — Frees or shrubs reserved for the value of their products. 



1. Custard apple. 5. Ilupe\ 9. Sikai-maram.|| 



2. Guava. 6. Cashew-nut. 10. Finn6.f 



3. Soap-nut. 7. Tetancotay.** 11. Tamarind. 



4. Capila-rung. J 8. Surul Chaki. § 



9. On fuel, firewood, and bamboos, cut for sale, a fee will be 

 levied as follows : — 1 man's load, 2 maunds, 3 pice ; 1 bullock, 8 

 maunds, 1 anna; 1 cart, 40 maunds, 5 annas; and the amount 

 so collected will form a fund to be laid out in new plantations, or 

 in the preservation and improvement of the existing ones. 



* Nauclea cadamba. f Acacia speciosa. X Rottlera tinctoria. 



§ Veniilago Maderaspatana. \\ Acacia concinna. 1 Calophyllum inophyllum. 



** Strychnos potatorum. 



