law: Indian Forest Act, 1927
  8.  Powers
  
  of Forest Settlement-officers .- 
  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 any officer
  
  authorized 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.