MTSOEB AND qpPJBG. SQ9 



who, in lieu of fixed pay, will, be allowed 6 to 7 per cent 

 commission on tlie value of work turned out with. Grovern- 

 ment money and tools, and 10 per cent when they work with 

 their own capital and tools. 



Each Mestri is to be. furnished with an estimate show- 

 ing the different works to be done and the sanctioned rates 

 for the same. Once a month, or when there is not sufficient 

 progress, once in two months, the Raiiger should check, mea- 

 sure up the work turned out by each Mestri, and enter the 

 same on the right side of his pass sheet, the work or works 

 to be done in the following month, in pursuance of the plan 

 of operations, being entered on the left side of the same 

 sheet. This pass sheet will be submitted, in duplicate, to 

 the Forest Officer, who shall check both sides of the pass 

 sheet with the aid of his note book, and issue a cheque for 

 such amount as may be passed by him in settlement of the 

 Meetri's account. 



The cheque should be drawn in favor of the Mestri con- 

 cerned and no other, and his acknowledgment obtained. One 

 of the pass sheets will be returned to the Ranger for revising 

 his original copy, if necessary, and handing back to the 

 Mestri concerned. 



2Ch Inspection hy Forest Officer,— 'Hhe chief work being 

 inspection and timely correetion of all mistakes in the Vari-. 

 ous stages o£: plantation work, it is necessary for the Offecer 

 in charge of 'Plantations to be constantly moving about and 

 checking thee Work on the field, 



21. iWhen a completion ..report of any kind of Workj 

 especially pittiiig, planting or clearing, is received from the 

 Ranger, the ^Forest Officer should make a personal inspection 

 and satisfy himself that the work is efficiently done and that 

 no gap has been left in the details. It will hot be consi'der* 

 ed an excuse for bad or fraudulent work that the Mestri ia 



.at fault, or that the Ranger has been careless in snpervi^io'n. 

 The Forest Officer alone will be held responsible for eyety 

 operation in the ilursery and in the field, • an(l notably in, the 

 seedlings under his. charge being healthy and vigorous; 



22. Any prolonged stpy at Head-quarters will Ibe taken 

 as prgof tha^t the Forest Officer is iijdifEerent to the work and 

 uni^iiiidful ot the iiiterests of Government, and in fact of hia 

 owi repiitatrpn alsOj as noj^one can know better than he 

 does hoW w^tkiis apt. to degenerate; and ,})e| scamped j if | not 



.fr^juently> ajad closely ecrutinisedi 



'^iSateSi — iThe prevailing rates a^i, the (royernment plants 

 ..atlpaa^foL-diferetot itiBm8..oi,..Wflr]S-are .set forth, iii t£ei an* 

 .jie^d statemeat. 



