l

121

operations, to repair the waste of previous years, and
to maintain a constant supply of timber fit for use.
In most parts the timber is felled and brought to
market by the officers of the department, but, in
some provinces, licenses are granted to private
individuals to fell and carry away timber, under
specified regulations and conditions.

————

CHAPTER X¥*

THE PRINCIPAL SERVICES,

The Indian Civil Service.

The principal division of the services is into
the military and civil services; the civil servants
of government are sub-divided into two great
branches, consisting of the covenanted and the uncovenanted
 services. The members of the Indian
civil service proper are, for the most part, selected
by competition in England, and appointed under
covenant with the secretary of state for India; they
constitute the chief governing body of the country,
and occupy almost all the more important posts
throughout British India. Those civil servants of
the government who do not belong to the army or
the Indian civil service proper, are broadly designated
 as the uncovenanted service.

* This chapter is taken fr i
é a from Chesney’s Indian Poli :
ix, x, and xiii. y ! olity, Chapters