Compilation of the Circulars and General Orders of the Chief Commissioner of Assam (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...will be reported by the DeputyCommissioner direct to the Secretariat Office. Every DeputyCommissioner is requested to see that the number of elephants allotted to his district as per Chief Commissioner's Resolution No. 2,727, dated the 1st June 1883, is correctly entered therein, with any addition or alteration that has since been made by deaths, sales, transfers, &c, of elephants, with a brief explanatory note of the causes of variations in each case. /. Discusses question of selling rubber mahdls.--R. D. Cir. No. 27, dated the 23rd November 1881, to all Deputy-Commissioners, except Gdro Hills, Sylhet, Ndga Hills, and Khdsi and Jaintia Hills.--The Chief Commissioner has now under his consideration the question whether the right to collect rubber on Government land and within reserved forests not specially set apart for the growth of ficus elastica, might not again, as prior to 1872, form the subject of lease to contractors. The practice of leasing rubher-mdhals in British territory was discontinued in 1873, owing to apprehended complications with frontier tribes, and the whole question has since that date remained pending until the policy of Government in respect of rubber brought from beyond the frontier or Inner Line into British territory should be determined. During this time the collection of rubber in British forests (whether reserved or unreserved) has been prohibited, and although it is doubtless the case that tapping has in some places continued, it has been done by stealth, and the produce has been passed off as foreign rubber. This period of comparative rest has given time to the trees to recover from the effects of previous tapping, and it is apparent from Mr. Brandis's report of his inspection of the forests in Assam, ...