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In telling or removing timber, the woodcutter should take reasonable care not 

 to damage other trees, or the young growth. When it becomes necessary to cut down 

 other trees than those granted on the license, the woodcutter should first get the guard 

 to mark them. The holder of the license should be held liable to pay for the young trees 

 damaged through carelessness or neglect at the following rates : (a) for trees above three 

 feet in girth, double the license-fees ; (6) for trees between three and thirty-six inches in 

 girth, at the rate of the license-fee on a cubic foot, for each three inches in girth ; (c) for 

 trees less than three inches in girth, the license-fee on one cubic foot of the species. 



When poles and spars are required to be placed in the slip-path, the guard may, upon 

 application, authorise the cutting for the purpose, free of license, of species not enumerated 

 In the schedule of license-fees. 



STAMPING OF MANUFACTURED WOOD. The forest guard should enter on the 

 license, on each occasion, particulars of the manufactured wood stamped by him, and 

 repeat these on the counterfoil of the license-book, so that the quantity of wood 

 already marked on each license may be readily known. The correct registration of 

 manufactured wood being one of the best checks on wood stealing, forest guards who 

 should fail to account correctly for wood delivered by them, should be held as guilty or 

 negligent (as the case may be) as if they had not accounted correctly for moneys received. 

 The forest guard should not be at liberty to stamp more than an excess of 15 per cent, of 

 manufactured wood, on the quantity granted on the license, without reference to the Con- 

 servator or his deputy, unless a new license is taken out for the excess. 



The cubic contents of manufactured wood may be readily derived from the small 

 table in Appendix VI. ; and " Hoppus' measurer " is convenient to use for pieces of 

 unusual dimensions. 



SAW PITS AND WORKPLACES. Trees should be removed to the workplace or saw pit 

 specified on the license. One workplace is usually sufficient for each section ; their 

 multiplication should be avoided on account of the increased difficulty of supervision that 

 would result. Saw pits in the forest are only allowable in exceptional circumstances, as 

 when the ground is very steep and the slipping of logs not practicable. The removal of 

 timber in the log is easier than that of manufactured wood, wherever the gradients allow 

 of slipping ; and it prevents the considerable damage to the forest that would result from 

 the clearing of workplaces for each few trees, the digging of pits, and the scattering of 

 sawdust, chips, and refuse, over the ground, which hinder, for many years, the growth 

 of trees on such spots. 



The timber required for sawpits may be granted by the forest guard, free of charge ; 

 only inferior trees and trees of species not specially reserved, being allowed to be taken 

 for the purpose. 



