Chapter III
RIGHTS IN FORESTS
Powers of Forest Settlement Officer
24. For the purpose of such inquiry, the Forest Settlement Officer may exercise the following powers, that is to say:-
(a) power to enter, by himself or by any officer authorised by him for the purpose, upon any land, and to survey, demarcate and make a map of the same; and
(b) the powers of Civil Court in the trial of suits.
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