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Addittonal power to make rules.-The Government may by notification m the Gazette make rules- (a) for the protectiOn, advancement, treatment and management of hill tribes , (b) to declare by what Forest Officer or class of Forest Officers the powers and duties conferred or Imposed by or under thts Act, on a Forest Officer shall be exercised or performed , (c) to regulate the procedure to be followed by F01est Settlement Officers, (d) to regulate the Ie,.,atds to be paid to officers and Informers from the proceeds of fines and confiscations undt-r this Act or from the Pubhc TteasUiy, (e) for the preservatiOn, reproduction and disposal of t1ees and timber uelongmg to Government, but grown on land3 Ill the occupatiOll of p1 ivate person'> ; (f) to regulate-or prohibit the fellmg, lopping, cuttmg, maimmg or otherwise maltreating of trees standmg on land temporanly or per- manently asstgned, the nght of Govetmnent ove1 which has been ex- pressly 1eserved in the deed of grant 01 asstgnment of such land; and (g) generally to ca1 ry out the proviSions of this Act.