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September next, and the other moiety on the 26th day of December 

 following; and if the amount, or respective amounts, shall not be 

 paid on the said days, or either of them, or if the purchaser or his 

 surety shall fail, and any timber shall remain on the estate, the 

 vendor shall be at liberty to prevent the removal thereof without 

 discharging the purchaser or his surety from liability on such 

 security till the amount be paid. 



4. That the timber shall be carried away at the purchaser's ex- 

 pense on or before the 1st day of October next, and that he and 

 the persons to be employed by him shall not grub nor take away 

 any of the stools or roots, nor do any wilful damage to the crops or 

 lands where the timber is now standing, nor to the timber which 

 may remain on the premises, nor dig any saw-pit upon any part of 

 the said land and premises. 



5. That the purchaser shall have liberty for his workmen, horses, 

 and carriages to pass and repass by all usual and proper ways for 

 removing the timber, from the time of his giving the aforesaid 

 security to the said 1st day of October next, but no part thereof 

 shall be felled or removed before such security be given. 



6. The lots to be fagotted within one month from the felling of 

 each tree, otherwise to be forfeited to the vendor. No dogs to be 

 taken into the woods, either by the purchasers or their workmen. 



Lastly, If the purchaser or purchasers shall refuse or neglect to 

 comply with the foregoing conditions, the deposit money shall be 

 forfeited, and the vendor shall be at liberty to resell the lot or lots 

 bought by such purchaser, either by public or private sale, and if 

 any deficiency shall happen by such resale, the same shall be made 

 good by the purchaser or defaulter. 



These are our conditions, and before closing this paper I will state a 

 few of the disadvantages of selling growing timber. If the purchaser 

 resides at a distance from the place of sale, he is put to considerable 

 inconvenience in getting woodmen to cut the timber. He has also 

 to arrange with some one to cart the bark, and must make several 

 visits to the plantations while his men are stripping oak and drying 

 it. All this leads to expense and loss of time, and, in my opinion, 

 the whole thing could be more satisfactorily done by the forester on 

 the estate. If a sufficient number of woodmen are not permanently 

 employed on the estate, he could engage men temporarily to cut the 

 oak and cure the bark by piece-work, and on the same terms as 

 agreed upon by the wood merchants. The forester on the spot 



