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1O. Every person obtaining a license shall, at the expiration thereof, make to 

 the officer or agent granting the same, or to the Commissioner of Crown lands, a 

 return of the number and kinds of trees cut, and of the quantity and description of 

 saw-loijs, or of the number and description of sticks of square timber manufac- 

 tured and carried away under the license ; and the statement shall be sworn 

 to by the holder of the license, or his agent, or by his foreman, before a Justice of 

 the Peace ; and any person refusing or neglecting to furnish such statement, or 

 evading or attempting to evade any regulation made by order-in-couucil, shall be 

 held to have cut without authority, and the timber made shall be dealt with 

 accordingly. 



11. (1) All timber cut under licenses shall be liable for the payment of the 

 Crown dues thereon, so long as and wheresover the timber or any part of it 

 may be found in Ontario, whether in the original logs or manufactured into 

 di-als, boards or other stuff; and all officers or agents intrusted with the collection 

 of such dues may follow all timber and seize and detain the same wherever 

 it is found until the dues are paid or secured. 



(2) Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to repeal the provisions 

 of the section 4 of chapter 23 of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada, as 

 regards timber removed into the Province of Quebec. 



12. Bonds or promissory notes taken for the Crown clues either before or 

 after the cutting of the timber, as collateral security, or to facilitate collection, 

 shall not in any way affect the lien of the Crown on the timber, but the lien shall 

 subsist until the dues are actually discharged. 



13. If timber so seized and detained for non-payment of Crown dues 

 remains more than two months in the custody of the agent or person appointed 

 to guard the same, without the dues and expenses being paid, the Commissioner 

 of Crown Lands with the previous special sanction of the Lieutenant-Governor 

 in council, may order a sale of the said timber to be made after sufficient notice ; 

 and the balance of the proceeds of the sale, after retaining the amount of dues and 

 costs incurred, shall be handed over to the owner or claimant of the timber. 



14. (1) If any person without authority cuts or employs or induces any other 

 person to cut, or assists in cutting any timber of any kind on the Crown, 

 clergy, school or other public lands, or removes or carries away, or employs or 

 induces or assists any other person to remove or carry away, merchantable 

 timber of any kind so cut from the public lands aforesaid, he shall not acquire 

 any right to the timber so cut, or any claim to any remuneration for cutting, 

 preparing the same for market, or conveying the same to or towards market. 



(2 1 When the timber or sa '-logs made has or have been removed by any 

 person out of the reach of the officers of the Crown lands department, or it 

 is otherwise found impossible to seize the same, such person shall, in addition to 

 the lo.ss of his labor and disbursements, forfeit a sum of $3 for each tree (rafting 

 stuff exceptedj which he is proved to have cut or caused to be cut or carried away. 



(3) Such sums shall be recoverable with costs, at the suit and in the name of 

 the Commissioner of Crown lands or resident agent, in any court having juris- 

 diction in civil matters to the amount of the penalty. 



(4) In such cases it shall be incumbent on the party charged to prove his 

 authority to cut ; and the averment of the party seizing or prosecuting that he is 

 duly employed under the authority of this Act, shall be sufficient proof thereof, 

 unless the defendant proves the contrary. 



