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authority of the owner of the sandalwood, shall be brought to 

 court and punished by imprisonment for any term not exceed- 

 ing three months for each tree, besides paying damages, and 

 alf sandalwood so cut shall be forfeited to the Crown or to its 

 lawful owner as the case may be. 



5. Any person who may either steal or remove sandalwood 

 from any Government plantation or forest without permission 

 of Government, or from the sandalwood plantations of the 

 people without the permission of the owner, shall be punished 

 for theft, in the manner that the laws against stealing direct. 



C. Any person who wilfully, carelessly, or thoughtlessly sets 

 fire to any sandalwood plantation or natural forest, or who by 

 raising fire beyond the boundaries of such plantation or forest, 

 and wilfully, carelessly, or thoughtlessly allows such to enter 

 into any sandalwood plantation or forest, shall be deemed 

 guilty of a crime, and shall be brought before a magistrate 

 and punished in such a manner as the law directs. 



7. Nothing stated in this regulation shall prevent the 

 offender against any of the foregoing articles or clauses from 

 being prosecuted for high misdemeanour in the Supreme Court 

 should such, upon due enquiry by a magistrate, be considered 

 necessary. 



8. The plantations of the natives shall be annually inspected 

 by a Government inspector appointed for the purpose, and the 

 condition of these plantations shall be by him annually re- 

 ported to Government. 



9. Copies of this regulation, translated into Fijian, shall be 

 distributed in all the towns in the districts above mentioned, 

 and after due consideration it shall apply to all those towns or 

 people who possess land suitable for growing and maturing 

 sandalwood. 



Regulation No. 6, dated 1878, of the Native Regulation Board 

 is hereby repealed. 



John Horne, 

 Director of Gardens and Forests, 

 Levuka, 31st Oct. 1878. Mauritius. 



