law: Indian Forest Act, 1927
  18.  Appeal
  
  under section 17 . –
  (1) Every appeal under section 17 shall be
  
  made by petition in writing, and may be delivered to the Forest
  
  Settlement-officer, who shall forward it without delay to the authority
  
  competent to hear the same.
  (2) If the appeal be to an officer appointed
  
  under section 17, it shall be heard in the manner prescribed for the time being
  
  for the hearing of appeals in matters relating to land-revenue.
  (3) If the appeal be to the Forest Court, the
  
  Court shall fix a day and a convenient place in the neighborhood of the
  
  proposed forest for hearing the appeal, and shall give notice thereof to the
  
  parties, and shall hear such appeal accordingly.
  (4) The order passed on the appeal by such
  
  officer or Court, or by the majority of the members of such Court, as the case
  
  may be, shall, subject only to revision by the State Government, be final.