Section 6.

(v) Section 8. - As soon as practicable after the issue of the proclamation prescribed in Section 6 of the Regulation, the Forest Settlement Officer should visit the proposed reserve. If a Forest Officer has been appointed under Section 5 to assist the Forest Settlement Officer, both officers should visit the reserve together. The following general instructions relating to the enquiry into rights and claims should be carefully followed. It should be clearly understood that the enquiry is to be made by the Forest Settlement Officer, and not by Forest Officer who may be appointed to assist him. The full responsibility for the enquiry and for the orders passed rests with the Forest Settlement Officer, and he alone should sign the records of evidence or statements which may be taken down and any order which may be passed or reports which may be submitted. The Forest Settlement Officer (with the Forest Officer, if any) should inspect inasmuch as possible of the proposed reserve and should afford the people likely to be affected by the proposed reservation full opportunity of putting forward their claims on the spot. He should remain for some time in or near the proposed reserve for this purpose.