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to the exclusion of all others, except as hereinafter mentioned from 



to 30th April, 18 , and no longer, with the right of conveying away said 



timber through any ungranted or waste lands of the Crown. 



And by virtue of this License, the said Licentiate has a right by the 

 Provincial Statute 12th Vic. Cap. XXX, to all timber cut by others in 

 trespass on the ground hereby assigned, with full power to seize and recover 

 the same anywhere within this Province aforesaid. But this license is sub- 

 ject to the following conditions, viz. : — 



That any person or persons may at all times make and use roads and 

 travel over the. ground hereby licensed, and cut and take therefrom any 

 trees necessary to make floats, traverses, oars and withes for use in rafting. 



That nothing herein shall prevent any person or persons from U-king 

 standing timber of any kind to be used in making Roads or Bridges or for 

 Public Works. 



And that persons settling under lawful authority -r title within the 

 location, hereby licensed, shall not in any way be interrupted by the said 

 Licentiate or any one acting for or by permission. 



And further, under condition that the said Licentiate or 

 rbpresentatives shall comply with all Regulations that are or may be estab- 

 lished by Otder in Council, and shall submit all the timber cut 

 under this License to be counted or measured and settle for the duties charge- . 

 able thereon when required by me or any Officer thereunto authorized, 

 otherwise the said timber will be forfeited to the Crown, and the said Licen- 

 tiate be subject to such other penalty as the Act provides. 



Given under my hand at , this dav of , 



iu the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ir.d 



(Signed) 



Collector of Crown Timber Duty. 



It will be seen that the new regulations, while retaining the provision 

 requiring the manufacture of a certain quantity of timber each year on 

 every limit, did much to rectify abuses and prevent over-production by 

 practically giving the license-holder a preferential claim to the renewal 

 of his license, upon compliance with, the conditions, and making the taking 

 forcible possession of disputed territory and refusal to comply with the 

 decision of courts or arbitrators punishable by the refusal of license. An 

 attempt to remedy the unfairness of the mode of levying dues, by which the 

 smaller-sized timber paid so much more in proportion than the larger sticks, 

 is indicated by the somewhat elastic provisions of the third clause of the 

 regulations providing for the counting or actual measurement whenever it 

 may be deemed advisable. The provision calling for the manufacture of 

 500 feet of timber per square mile as a condition of occupancy, while 

 theoretically objectionable, was hardly likely to work much practical injury 

 to the trade, modified as it was by the saving clause under which it might 

 be dispensed with for any season by special notice. The fact of it having 

 been so suspended for two years previous to the adoption of the Act, in con- 

 sequence of an over-stocked condition of the market, and that attention had 

 been fully directed to its possible injurious effects if maintained during 

 periods of business depression, rendered it comparatively innocuous for the 

 future. 



The essentially characteristic and valuable feature of this legislation 

 was, however, the greater stability and permanence attaching to the lum- 

 berman's business and interest in the limit secured. By rendering him 

 practically assured of a renewal of his license so long as he chose to comply 



