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Railroad timber to he taken at actual measurement, provided it does 

 not average more tlian liall tlie regular size, or on the party exhibiting a 

 contract and specification corresponding with the timber in his raft. 



All Saw Logs cut in future upon Public Lands, if exported from the 

 Province, shall be paid for at double the rates mentioned above respectively. 



4th. All Square timber, Logs, Deals, Boards or other Stuff leaving the 

 Agency in whiph it is cut in any form, must be submitted to counting or 

 actual measurement whenever required and statements under oath must 

 be furnished of the kinds and quantities of timber and logs cut under each 

 license, when required by the Agent for the granting of licenses, or other 

 authorized person. 



5th. Parties cutting timber on Public Lands, before moving any raft or 

 parcel of timber (whether cut on Public or Private lands) from the Agency 

 in which they held license, shall make report thereof to the Collector of 

 Crown Timber Dues or Agent; making, if required, declaration upon oath 

 as to the number of pieces of each kind of wood in each raft or parcel, and 

 the number of cribs; whereupon they shall obtain clearances from the Col- 

 lector or Agent, stating the number of pieces in each raft--how many, if 

 any, have been satisfactorily proved to be from Private Lands, and on how 

 many, if any, the duties have previously or then been paid ; and on the arrival 

 of any such raft or parcel of timber at Quebec, or at any intermediate place or 

 other port, for sale or shipment, the owner or holder of it shall make 

 report thereof within forty-eight hours to the iuspecior of llafth, Deputy 

 Supervisor of Cullers, or other appointed officer, and in addition to tho 

 quantity shewn by the clearance as subject to duty, any surplus timber 

 })eyond the number of pieces stated herein, on being ascertained by the 

 Inspector of Rafts, Deputy Supervisor of Cullers, or other authorized officer, 

 shall be held as having been cut upon Crown Lands, and be subject to the 

 payment of duties accordingly. 



Gth. Parties omitting to report the departure of their rafts or otlu'i 

 timber from the Agency in which they held license, or the arrival thereof 

 at Quebec, or other port or place for sale or shipment within the Province, 

 as before mentioned, shall be refused further license, and be subject to th(^ 

 forfeiture of the timber for evasion of regulations, as provided in Section 

 3rd of 12th Vic, Cap. XXX. 



7th. Hereafter on the issue of License to cut timber on Public Lands, 

 a Ground Pent of Two Shillings and Sixpence for every superficial mile 

 licensed, shall be exacted in addition to the established duties ; and the 

 deposit on account hitherto levied shall be discontinued. The Ground Rent 

 shall be computed on the nearest approximation to the real areas of the 

 timber berths, but on no license shall it be less than One Pound currency ; 

 and no claim for reimbursement of ground rent over calculated will be enter- 

 tained after the issue of license. 



8th. The ground rent to be exacted on the renewal of license shall be 

 double that of the previous year if the berth has not been duly worked upon 

 — increasing annually in that proportion while unoccupied, (excepting the 

 year succeeding that in which the license has been first issued, if not in a 

 surveyed township) ; reverting to the original rate on the berth being duly 

 occupied; and the making ol 500 feet of square timber or 100 saw logs per 

 square mile shall be considered as due occupation. 



9th. No timber berth shall be forfeited for the non-occupation of it, 

 provided the increased ground rent on that account be duly paid ; but berths 

 on which any increased ground rent is evaded by false statements as to occu- 

 pation shall, (after the former holder has had an opportunity of being heard 

 in opposition) be granted to the first applicant pleading such evasion and 

 non-occupation on or before the 31st May, and proving the same by the 



