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in Malacca. In addition $17 were spent on demarcating 2} miles of boundary 
of the suggested reserve on the Sungei Linggi. In Malacca the boundaries 
were more clearly defined than before by the erection of 138 new and clearly 
marked boundary plates. 
Surveys. 
6. About 8 miles of the southern boundary of the Sungei Pinang Re- 
serve and the northern boundary of the South Pangkor Reserve, both in 
the Dindings, were surveyed by the Survey Department with a view chiefly 
to locating the situation of certain blocks of alienated land. The only other 
survey work of importance was carried out departmentally in the Bukit 
Senggeh, Ayer Panas, Batang Malaka, and Bukit Sedanan Reserves in 
Malacca, where timber extraction tracks or specially selected cut and graded 
lines were surveyed and adopted as compartment boundaries. About 
59 miles were surveyed for this purpose at a cost of $380, which compares 
favourably with $701 for 50 miles of similar work in 1921. 
PART II. 
MANAGEMENT OF FORESTS. 
Working Plans and Plans of Operations. 
7. There are at present no regular working plans, but the breaking up 
of the Malacca reserves into compartments is a necessary preliminary to 
their compilation. The plans of operations were on a small scale and were 
generally adhered to, the only important exception being the proposed 
enumeration surveys in the Lumut Reserve, which could not be carried out for 
want of an experienced officer. 
Communications. 
8. A mile of path costing $23 was constructed to give access to the 
tab an plantation in the Telok Bahang Reserve in Penang, and about 2d miles 
of rough paths were made at a cost of $22 round the reservoir in the Panchor 
Reserve in Province Wellesley to facilitate the protection of the water 
catchment area. The latter path also gives access to a felling area. 
9. In Malacca 36 miles of path were constructed, mostly along old 
extraction tracks, at an average cost of $476 a mile, the distances being 17, 
10, 1, and 8 miles in the Ayer Panas, Bukit Senggeh, Merlimau, and Batang 
Malaka Reserves respectively. Repairs were carried out to 25 miles in the 
Sungei Udang Reserve and 2 miles in the Bukit Bruang Reserve at a cost 
of $1.58 a mile. 
Buildings. 
10. The construction and maintenance of Forest Department buildings 
are for the most part in the hands of the Public Works Department. New 
quarters were erected for forest guards in Malacca at Merlimau ($950), 
Selandar ($1,330), and Sungei Udang ($1,093), and quarters for a forester 
at Alor Gajab were begun. In addition a sum of $1,180 was spent on 
latrines at Balik Pulau, Bukit Mertajam, and Jasin, on wells at Telok Bahang 
and Sungei Udang, and on a fence at Telok Bahang. 
Protection of Forests. 
tij. There were no changes in the Forest Law. The numbet of 
offences reported, none of which were serious, fell from 104 in 1921 to 64 
in the year of report, of which 60 were concerned with the unauthorised 
removal or appropriation of forest produce. The fall is accounted for en- 
tirely by the reduction in the number of offences in Malacca, where the stricter 
supervision enforced in 1921 has evidently had a salutary effect. Four cases 
were pending at the beginning of the year. 
