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timber, wliicJb. lias arrived at its full growth, and migHt be a source of 

 wealth to the lumberman and revenue to the Province, if its manufacture 

 was not virtually prohibited. 



Your Committee would also suggest the reduction of the present c-stab- 

 ]ishment for the collection of timber duties, and the management of Slides 

 upon the Ottawa, and the remodelling of the various offices, as suggested 

 by the evidence of the parties above referred to, by which a saving to the 

 Province of upwards of £1,000 per annum might be effected. 



All of w^hich is respectfully submitted. 



John Scott, 



Chairman 



THE FIRST CROWN TIMBER ACT. 



The immediate outcome of the action of the Select Committee was the 

 adoption, during the same session, of the first Canadian Degislative enact- 

 ment on the subject of timber licenses, which, with the regulations of the 

 Crown Lands Department, issued in accordance with its provisions, prac- 

 tically forms the point of departure from which our present system has 

 been developed. It has, therefore, been considered advisable to present both 

 in full, together with the form of license appended to the regulations. 



An Act for the Sale and Betterment of Timber upon the Public 

 Lands : — 



Regulations Subject to Change. — For One Year Only. 



''Whereas it is deemed expedient and proper to provide by law, as 

 well for the sale of the Timber growing on the Public Lands of the Province, 

 as for the protection of the said timber against the frequent and extensive 

 depredations committed upon it in various parts of the Province : Be it 

 therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the 

 advice of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assernbly of the 

 Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the 

 authority of an Act passed in the Parliaments of the Province of Upper and 

 Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted 

 by the authority of the same : That it shall and may be lawful for the Com- 

 missioner of Crown Lands, or any officer or agent under him, duly 

 authorized to that effect, to grant licenses to cut timber on the ungranted 

 lands of the Province at such rates and subject to such conditions, regula- 

 tions and restrictions as may from time to timeT)e established by the Gover- 

 nor of the Province, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, and 

 ff which due notice shall be given in the Canada Gazette. Provided 

 always that no license shall be so granted for a longer period than twelve 

 months from the date thereof: And provided further that if in consequence 

 of any incorrectness of survey, or other error or cause whatsoever, a license 

 shall be found to cover grounds already included in a license of a prior 

 date, the license last granted shall become null and void in so far as it may 

 interfere with the one previously issued, and the holder or proprietor of 

 the license so rendered null and void shall have no claim whatsoever upon 

 the Government for indemnity or compensation by reason of such cancella- 

 tion. 



2. And be it enacted. That the licenses so granted shall describe as 

 accurately as circumstancps will permit the ground or grounds upon which 

 the Timber shall be cut and shall be held to confer, for the time being, on 

 the nominee, the right to talce pud keep possession of the premises descri^bed 

 to the exclusion of a^l other parties, subject to such regulations and restric- 



