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4. Accounts of money received for permits at the Treasury 

 ought not to be mixed with accounts of revenue from other 

 sources, but kept a separate item of revenue of themselves. 



In this way the amount of revenue and expenditure on 

 forests can easily be got any time. 



5. To certify that the permit has been issued and money 

 received by the persons authorised. 



G. The Receiver-General and magistrate being unacquainted 

 with the forests might, were they authorised to issue permits, 

 give liberty to fell trees in a place where, for forest purposes, it 

 would be most unsuitable to fell them, and thus unintentionally 

 cause injury that would take many years to repair. 



7. To prevent difficulties in collecting the money. 



8. Time allowed will vary according to number of trees to 

 be felled, &c, but it is necessary that it should be limited, 

 because, if the work were carried on in a dilatory, trifling 

 manner, it would not pay to look after it. 



9. It is desirable that Government should know something 

 about persons who are holders of permits, and if the transfer 

 of permits were uncontrolled, it might give opportunity to 

 dishonest and worthless persons entering and doing damage to 

 forests. Besides, it would open a door for unauthorised pro- 

 ceedings, and tend to subvert all authority in forest affairs. 



10. It is essential that the master be held responsible for 

 his servants, else there would be no guarantee against injury 

 done to reserves by the servants of permit-holders. 



11. Of course large trees cannot be felled in a thick forest 

 without causing some damage, but permit-holders must know 

 that wanton destruction will not be allowed. 



12. This will prevent injury until the forest law be brought 

 into operation. The last clause of this article can then be 

 applied to the authorised felling of such trees as Sagali, useful 

 for piles, or Doga, for firewood, &c, both of which grow in salt 

 marshes, and to the felling of Dakua Salu-Salu, Lewinini, &c., 

 which generally grow on ridges of mountains, and yield timber 

 useful for special purposes. In both places the greatest care 

 is required that too many trees be not felled in one place ; for 

 this reason the marking of trees by a responsible Government 

 servant, previous to being felled is proposed. 



13. If these matters were to be settled in a court of law, 

 they would be a source of continual trouble, and ultimately 

 the result would be, that the variable interpretations and 

 decisions of the magistrates would be the only recognised 



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