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All square timber, logs, deals, boards or other stuff made up into rafts 

 or cribs, or leaving the district in any other form, to be submitted to count- 

 ing or actual measurement whenever it may be deemed advisable. 



Statements under oath to be furnished of the kinds and quantities of tim- 

 ber and logs cut and carried away. 



Amount to be Cut. 



4th. Applicants for license will be required to make a deposit of one- 

 fourth of the duty on the quantity of timber to be made, which is to be 

 estimated at the rate of 500 feet per square mile, or on the quantity pro- 

 posed to be made, if greater, giving bonds with security for the remainder. 

 No license to be estimated for less than 2,000 feet of timber. Saw log lim- 

 i*^s to be estimated as square pine timber. 



Applicants neglecting to comply with this condition within the period 

 of three months in the Bytown Timber Office, and one month in any other 

 agency, from the date of the receipt of their application, will lose the 

 claim to the limits, which will fall to the next applicant. Deposits will in 

 no case be returned, and only allowed in reduction of dues the first or second 

 season after the date of the License, and not afterwards. Licenses granted 

 on erroneous descriptions or sketches furnished by applicants may be 

 declared null and void by the office, whenever deemed necessary, and 

 parties carrying on operations under such licenses after being required to 

 desist will be considered as trespassers and subject to the penalties of the 

 Timber Act. 



Transfers. 



5th. Transfers of limits to be in writing and if not found objectionable 

 b> the Crown Lands Department or Timber Agent, to be valid from the 

 date on which they may be deposited in the hands of the latter, but no 

 transfer to be valid until after one year's actual occupation by the parties 

 transferring them. It being however well understood that in granting Tim- 

 ber Licenses the Government contract no other obligation than that of 

 allowing the party concerned to -cut and carry away the quantity of timber 

 mentioned in the license if found within its limits. 



Squatters. 



6th. Squatters or other occupants of land without authority cutting 

 timber or saw-logs thereon without License (except for the necessary build- 

 ing or clearing and fencing) or others doing so by their permission, will 

 be subject to the penalties established by law for cutting timber without 

 a license. Timber cut on land being purchased, but not all paid for, to be 

 collected by Government in part payment of the land. 



7th. Persons refusing or evading the payment of slide dues or duties on 

 their Timber, or the final settlement of bonds for the same before giving it 

 away, or in any default with the office ; — also persons taking violent posses- 

 sion of disputed grounds before obtaining a decision in their favor, and 

 parties refusing to comply with the decisions of Courts or of Arbitrators or 

 the regulations of this Office — or who forcibly interrupt surveyors, shall be 

 refused further licenses and their limits become disposable to others on the 

 expiration of their licenses. 



