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venue Officers should also reside within those parts of 
their districts where wood-cutting is practised, and not, 
as did the Revenue Officers of Demerara and Berbice, 
in Georgetown and New Amsterdam. The surveying 
which the Revenue Officers did (they were also Assistant 
Crown Surveyors) should be done by officers from the 
present Crown Lands Department. There should be an 
officer to supervise the Revenue Officers and their assis- 
tants, and to see that their duties were efficiently per- 
formed and without partiality. The Assistant Revenue 
Officers, in addition to their share of fines and seizures 
(which was all the remuneration they got), should be paid 
a small monthly salary. 
No doubt many and better suggestions might be made 
by persons of more experience in the conservation of 
the forests, but, in all first attempts of whatever nature, 
many things that after-experience proves necessary must 
be inadvertentlv omitted ; the knowledge of these omis- 
sions can, however, only be gained by time and the adop- 
tion of some regular system. At the same time I do not 
think for the present any very elaborate system is neces- 
sary. What is most wanted is a beginning. 
Although aware of the fact, I have made no remark on 
the change of climate that ensues when a country is 
cleared of its trees, as from the rapid growth of vegeta- 
tion and the vast extent of forest-covered land here, 
there seems no probability of our being so affected, and 
such an event will be for the consideration of future 
generations. 
