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absolutely necessary that Government should come forward and 

 take the initiative in the formation of new forests to replace those 

 which have vanished from private carelessness and rapacity — a 

 work too new, too extensive, and too barren of early return, to 

 be ever taken up by the native proprietor. But to do this effec- 

 tually, to ensure the Government resources from being frittered 

 away with no good result, it is essential, as I have shown in my 

 report of 12th June 1840, that the duty and responsibility of the 

 planting be entrusted to some person who is thoroughly qualified 

 to undertake it." The Board of Bevenue at Madras, in again 

 advocating this measure, wrote, — " To ensure these noble forests 

 being turned to the best advantage, they should be placed under 

 the especial charge of some person sent from England for the 

 purpose, and who, from his practical acquaintance with the sys- 

 tem of planting and with the science of arboriculture generally, 

 may be best qualified for that peculiar duty.'' 



The Government of Madras having again urged the necessity 

 of obtaining the services of a properly qualified person from 

 England, the Government of India, on the 22d June 1844, for- 

 warded the whole of the correspondence to the Court of Direc- 

 tors, with a recommendation that an experienced arboriculturist 

 be appointed. 



In Jan. 1845, the Government of India, on the recommenda- 

 tion of the Government of Madras, authorised an increase to the 

 teak plantation establishment of the collector of Malabar, which 

 raised its aggregate cost from Ks. 221 to Es. 314-8 per month, 

 including Es. 50, the salary of the native sub-conservator. This 

 increased establishment was represented as necessary in conse- 

 quence of the extended scale on which planting and sowing were 

 being carried on by Mr Conoliy, whose report calls for some no- 

 tice. In the report of October 1844, he says, that from Novem- 

 ber 1843 to May 1844 he employed the conservancy establish- 

 ment in clearing and preparing a considerable quantity of ground 

 in four ^different sites, named Manasherry, Ariacode, Yedacode, 

 and Iravelly Cow. The second and third sites were on the Ne- 

 lambur or Beypur Eiver, the first on a tributary stream, and the 

 fourth close to Nelambur itself, so that the soils and circum- 

 stances of each were more or less different. Here Mr Conoliy 



