338 India. 
executive service, being in administrative functions 
independent of the former. 
An Inspector-General, directly under the Secretary 
of Revenue and Agriculture, (for some time under the 
Home Department) is the head of the service, and acts 
as professional adviser both of the Imperial and the 
Provincial Governments. But this head of the service 
is shorn of most of its executive functions, all adminis- 
trative matters being reserved to the provincial author- 
ities. 
The Inspector-General has charge only of the forest 
school administration, of forest surveys, and of the 
making of working plans, which latter after approval 
by the Provincial government, are in their execution 
inspected and critically supervised by him, but with- 
out power to enforce them, or to give direction directly 
to the Conservators in charge (at least in Madras and 
Burma). He also watches and reports on the progress 
of all forestry matters in the empire. 
Peculiarities and great variety are also found in 
other official relations and in the appointing power, 
the general and provincial governments exercising cer- 
tain rights in this respect. 
The Controlling Staff (57 officers in 1869, now 200) 
under the Inspector-General, consists of Conservators, 
Deputy Conservators and Assistant Conservators. The 
Conservators, now 19, so far as they are not directly 
acting as assistants in the Inspector-General’s office, 
are the heads of the provincial departments and con- 
servatorships, and in that capacity directly subordinate 
to the local government, which in Madras and Bombay 
also has their appointment; each is in charge either of 
