APPENDIX C. 



Sug-gested Heads of Agreement between the 

 Forest Authority and the Landowner. 



In the following outline of Heads of Agreement no attempt 

 has been made to adopt legal phraseology, or to enter into 

 any but the most important points. The Heads of Agree- 

 ment are numbered from I. to XIV., and the reasons for each 

 are stated where necessary. 



I. — The lease of the ground should be for not less than 151 

 years, and the ground must be used for forestry purposes only. 

 Forestry purposes to include afforestation, the creation of crofts, 

 the erection of houses and plant, the making of roads, etc. 



A long lease is necessary so that the land may be afforested 

 in proper rotation, and time be given for two complete 

 70-year rotations. 



n. — Power to surrender the lease should be reserved to the 

 Forest Authority under proper safeguards, subject to fines, and 

 after due notice has been given. 



It is essential that, should the Forest Authority find that 

 the land chosen is unsuitable for tree-growth, it should 

 have the power to return the same to the proprietor ; and 

 that the proprietor should be bound to accept such return, 

 provided that the land so handed over be not in worse 

 condition as regards shelter and amenity, and as a rent 

 producer for sporting and other purposes, than it was at 

 the beginning of the forest lease. 



III. — Power should be reserved to the landlord to resume 

 the whole or any part of the land, provided that such 

 resumption does not materially interfere with the State scheme 

 of afforestation, and that compensation for money expended, 

 and for reasonably estimated profit, is paid by him to the Forest 



Authority. 



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