460 DISPOSAL AND SALE OF WOOD. 



(c) Delivery of Wood to the Purchasers. 



The sale having been confirmed, the wood of the different 

 lots is delivered to the purchasers immediately after the sale, 

 unless there is any difficulty in furnishing security for pay- 

 ment. If the sale is held in the forest, this is done either by 

 handing over the wood at once, or by giving each purchaser a 

 written order of removal for the wood he has bought. When 

 sales are not held in the forest, the forest-manager assembles 

 all the purchasers at the felling-area or depot, on a day fixed 

 as soon as possible after the sale, and shows each purchaser 

 his wood. Either then, but generally at the auction, each 

 purchaser obtains his permit to remove his wood, on which is 

 stated.: the place where the wood is lying; a sufficiently clear 

 description of the wood sold ; the price to be paid for it and 

 sometimes the dates when payment should be made. This 

 permit should then be taken to the forest cashier and the 

 price paid to him, when it is returned stamped and receipted, 

 and then the purchaser can remove his wood. When credit 

 is given, and payment is therefore not immediate, the cashier 

 should notify to the forest-manager the names of any pur- 

 chasers regarding whose solvency he has any doubt ; in such 

 cases, the wood must remain in the forest until payment has 

 been made or satisfactory security provided. 



Sometimes a period of time is fixed during which the fores-t 

 manager is responsible for the safety of the purchasers' wood 

 lying in the forest. 



As a rule, however, wood once sold and delivered to the pur- 

 chaser remains at his risk after he has received the permit for 

 its removal, although the forest-guards are expected to watch 

 it carefully and prevent fraud. In many districts as, for 

 instance, in the Khine-valley the forest-owner declines all 

 risk for the sold wood, but a special guard is appointed and 

 paid for by the purchasers for one or more felling-areas, to 

 protect their wood when lying in the forest. A fixed rate of 

 payment is then allowed for every stack of wood, every log 

 and every hundred faggots, which is paid to the guard by each 

 purchaser on the removal of his wood. Generally this institu- 

 lion of a guard for felling-areas is agreed to tacitly by all 



