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said timber will be forfeited to the Crown, and the said licensee be subject to such 

 other penalties as the Act provides. 



Given under my hand, at Toronto, the day of in the 



year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety- in duplicate. 



Commissioner. 



The stipulation in regard to road allowances found in two of the forms, is as 

 follows : 



And every government road allowance or parts thereof, embraced within 

 the boundaries of the tracts or parcels of land above mentioned or described, 

 and all such portions of any government road allowance as border upon any tract, 

 lot, or parcel of land above mentioned or described, and lie between the side-lines 

 or between the front and rear-lines, or between a side-line and a front or rear- 

 line, or between different parts of any line of said tracts, lots, or parcels of land 

 produced across such road allowance ; provided, however, that when any portion 

 of a road allowance is found to be included in any two licenses covering lands 

 on opposite sides of such road allo -vance, then each license is to extend only to 

 the centre line of such road allowance ; and provided also, that all disputes 

 arising out of any conflict of licenses covering government road allowances shall 

 be decided by the Commissioner of Crown Lands, who may define what 

 portion of any road allowance is included in each license, and his decision shall be 

 binding. 



This license not to interfere with prior licenses. 



(6) SYSTEM OF WOOD RANGING. EFFORTS TO PREVENT WASTE. 



The Commissioner of Crown Lands, in the communication already cited 



I describes the operation of these regulations and the system of wood-ranging was 



\ then introduced. This is admitted as at first crude and experimental, but it has 



I since gone on with moilitications as suggested by experience, until it is deemed 



at present as perfect as can practically be carried out. 



A staff of from twenty to thirty experienced and reliable rangers are 

 employed each season, some of them being engaged from December till the 30th 

 of April, and a few of the supervising rangers up to the end of October. The 

 result has been s i.tisfactory in the highest degree, the revenue having increased 

 in the several agencies immediately after the inception of the system to the 

 extent of from h' t'ty pi'r cent , and in one agency even -K)0 per cent. 



Instead of agents dealing with accounts for timber dues as formerly, all 

 returns, together with ringer's reports, are transmitted to the department, where 

 the timber limit operations and cutting on special lots of land are checked, and 

 all accounts made up, and transmitted to agents for the collection of the dues 

 and transmission of the same to headquarters as collected. 



Wood-rangers have standing instructions to report generally on any wanton 

 or special waste, when such has been observed in connection with lumbering" 

 operations, and in cases of licensees allowing standing pine through which fire 

 has passed to become lost instead of utilizing it before it is destroyed by what is. 

 termed the ' : boring worm." A few cases of waste transpired some years ago by 

 licensees arranging with jobbers to cut saw-logs on their timber limits, the logs, 

 by agreement, to be up to a certain standard of quality all logs failing short of 

 the standard fixed being rejecte I and left in the woods and an attempt made 

 to leave the rejected timber out of the returns ; but through the vigilance of the 

 wood-rangers of the department, such transactions were nipped in the bud,, and 

 abandoned when parties found that they had to account for and mak" payment 

 to the Crown on every tree cut clown. The only real waste of timber in lumber. 



