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the award of such arbitrators or of such umpire shall be made and delivered to 

 the parties and such award shall be binding on them. 



9th. Timber cut on limits for which license has been suspended or held in 

 abeyance shall be considered as having been cut without authority, and treated 

 accordingly. 



10th. Occupants,, locatees, or purchasers of pubic lands, who have not completed 

 all the conditions of sale or location, shall not, unless under settler's license, or 

 for clearing, fencing, or building purposes on the said land, be permitted to cut 

 timber or logs thereon, or to dispose of it to others. Persons found doing so 

 shall be subject to the penalties established by law for cutting timber on the 

 public lands without authority. 



1 1 th. All timber licenses are to expire on the 30th of April next after the date 

 thereof, and all renewals are to be applied for and issued before the 1st of July 

 following the expiration of the last preceding license, in default whereof the right 

 to renewal shall cease, and the berth or berths shall be treated as forfeited. 



12th. No renewal of any license shall be granted unless or until the ground- 

 rent and all costs of survey, and all dues to the Crown on timber, saw-logs, or 

 other lumber, cut under and by virtue of any license, other than the last preceding, 

 shall have been first paid. 



13th. All timber berths or limits shall be subject to an annual ground -rent of 

 $3 per square mile, payable in advance, before the issuing of any original license 

 or renewal. 



14th. Ail timber, saw-logs, wood, or other lumber, cut under any license now 

 in force, or under any license which may be hereafter granted, shall be subject to 

 the payment of the following Crown dues, that is to say :- 



Black walnut and oak, per cubic foot $0 03 



Elm, ash, tamarac and maple, per cubic foot 02 



Birch, basswood, cedar, buttonwood and cottoiiwood, and all 



boom timber, per cubic foot 01^ 



Red and white pine timber (per O.C. 27th April, 1887), per 



cubic foot , 02 



All other woods 01 



Basswood, button wood and cottonwood, saw-logs, per standard 



of 200 feet board measure ,..., 15 



Red and white pine saw-logs and boom timber, per standard 



of 200 feet B. M,, (per O.C. 27th April, 1887) 20 



Walnut, oak and maple saw -logs, per standard of 200 feet 



board measure 25 



Hemlock, spruce, and other woods, per standard of 200 feet 



board measure 10 



All unmeasured culled saw-logs, to be taken at the average 

 of the lot, and to be charged for at the same rate. 



Staves, pipe, per mille 7 00 



Staves, West India, per mille 2 25 



Cordwood (hard) per cord 20 



Cordwood (soft) per cord 12 



Hemlock tan-bark, per cord 30 



Railway timber, knees, etc., to be charged 15 per cent, ad valorem. 

 15th. The duties on timber shall be charged upon the quantity shown by 

 the specification of measurement at the office of the supervisor of cullers, at 

 Quebec, or that of the deputy-supervisor of cullers, at Sorel or Montreal, or by 

 other reliable measurement, but where such actual measurement cannot be 

 obtained, each stick of white pine timber shall be estimated as containing seventy 



