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forest treasury for payment of the wages, Thus must be 

 recorded the whole of the work done throughout the year. 

 6. Further, the Forest-Master must prepare and deliver 

 at the end of May a report of the whole management of 

 the forests under his charge, prepared according to a form 

 prescribed, in which are entered on one page the outlay, 

 stating in successive columns, the block to which the 

 report refers, the forest or district in which it is situated, 

 the work done, whether in forest management or in extra- 

 neous work, the number of days spent in each of the opera- 

 tions specified in the record of day's work, the sum total of 

 the day's work spent in each and in all, the expense in cash ; 

 and on an opposite page is entered the revenue received, 

 in which, in successive columns, are stated the number of 

 the block, the forest or district, and for what it is received, 

 timber delivered, &c., the kind of forest product sold, 

 classified into trunk wood and small wood, giving of each 

 the number of trees and the cubic measurement of what 

 was sold, and the payment received. Directions are 

 given that if the outlay exceed the income the difference 

 must be entered as loss- if the income exceed the outlay 

 the difference must be entered as gain, and the account 

 must be balanced. There must be appended notices of any 

 remarkable transactions or occurrences pertaining to the 

 year in the revier or district, such as forest fires, clearances 

 made, devastations occasioned by storms, and the more 

 extensive operations connected with building, fencing, 

 ditching, and sawing. 



Par. 21 enjoins that the prescribed work should be 

 effected in the course of the year in the following order : 



January. Wood felling to be carried on when the 

 weather permits, and the delivery or bringing of timber, 

 and the collecting of cones of the fir and the pine con- 

 tinued. 



February. The same operations to be continued the 

 felling and the delivery or bringing out of timber, more 

 especially of building timber, and the collection of cone s 



