Section 8. Powers of Forest Settlement-officer

8. Powers of Forest Settlement-officer. —For the purpose of such inquiry, the Forest Settlementofficer may exercise the following powers, that is to say:— (a) power to enter, by himself or 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 a Civil Court in the trial of suits.