1907 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, FORESTS AND MINES. 207 



Claims to Renewal. 



8th. Licentiates who shall have duly occupied their limits, and who 

 shall have strictly complied with all the requirements of the office, will be 

 considered as having a claim to the renewal of their license in preference to 

 all others, on their making application to that effect in writing, on or before 

 the 31st May, and depositing the money and bonds required on or before 

 the 30th September (excepting that for this season they will be received 

 rntil the 31st December) failing which the limits to be considered vacant, 

 and to be disposable by Public Sale on the 10th day of October following, 

 or subsequently to the first applicant. 



Proof of Occupation. 



9th. Unless in seasons excepted by special notice, limits upon which 

 the holder will make less than an average of 500 feet of timber, or 20 saw 

 logs per square mile, or upon the entire extent of which (if less than four 

 superficial miles) he will make less than 2,000 feet of timber, or less than 

 100 saw logs, shall be considered as not having been duly occupied, and 

 will, after the former owner has had an opportunity of being heard in 

 opposition, be granted to the first applicant pleading such non-occupation, 

 on or before the Slst May, and proving same by the Certificate of a sworn 

 surveyor on or before the 31st July following. Should the statement on 

 oath required by the Timber Act not be made when required, or should it 

 show that the limits have not been duly occupied, a surveyor's certificate 

 will not be required. Provided, however, 'that if 250 feet of timber or 10 

 saw logs are proved to have been made per square mile, the holder of tbe 

 said limit shall be entitled to retain one-half of the same, which shall then 

 be divided under the directions of the office at the expense of the former 

 holder, into two equal halves of which the said holder shall have his choice, 

 leaving the remainder to the new applicant. 



10th. Parties having rivers to clear or other improvements to make to 

 render their berths available, will be considered as having duly occupied 

 the same, if they establish to the satisfaction of the office, having laid out 

 in such improvements during the season a sum* averaging at least £6 per 

 square mile, and provided that the entire amount be not less than £24. 

 even for the smallest limit. 



Licenses to he Renewed 



N. B. — Present holders of timber berths under license will be entitled 

 oa the foregoing conditions to renew their licenses for the same, on sub- 

 dividing such as may exceed the extent sanctioned by the present regula- 

 tions,, and making their applications on or before the 31st of May next; but 

 a)l renewals of licenses shall be subject to such modifications as may be 

 found necessary to settle or obviate disputes. 



Form of License. 



By authority of the Hon. the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the 

 Province of Canada, and for and in consideration of the payments made and 

 to be made to Her Majesty as secured by a bond of this date; I do hereby 

 give unto and unto Agents and Workmen full 



power and license to cut upon this Location described on 



the back hereof by and to hold and occupy the said liocation 



