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and may be cancelled in whole, or in part, whenever deemed necessary; 

 parties persisting in working under such licenses, after being required to 

 desist, will be trespassers and subject to penalties as such. 



15th. The Surveyor of Licenses, and the other Crown Timber Agents, 

 shall keep registers of all applications for berths, licenses granted, and 

 transfers thereof, which, with their plans of licensed limits and vacant 

 ground, shall be open for public inspection ; but no applicants shall be 

 entitled to explanation as to applications subsequent to his own, for the 

 same ground, 



16th. The Surveyor of Licenses at Bytown and Officers thereunto author- 

 ized elsewhere, shall, at the written request of any party interested, issue 

 instructions stating how the boundaries of timber berths should be run, to 

 be in conformity with existing licenses. The surveys are to be performed at 

 the expense of the parties requiring them, but the plans, reports and field 

 notes thereof will be paid for and kept of record by the Surveyor of Licenses 

 or Agent on their being examined and approved by him. 



17th. In all cases of contestation as to the right to berths or the posi- 

 tion of bounds, the opinion of the Surveyer of Licenses at Bytown, or Agent 

 for granting licenses elsewhere, is to be binding on the parties, unless and 

 until reversed by arbitration, within three months after notification of such 

 opinion has been communicated to the parties (or their representatives on 

 the premises, or sent to their address) or by decision. of Court. 



18th. To prevent delay and disputes as to arbitrators, it shall only be 

 necessary for the party thinking himself aggrieved by such opinion, to 

 notify in writing to the officer who has given it, his dissent, and the arbitra- 

 tor he has appointed ; it shall then be the duty of the Surveyor of Licenses, 

 or other authorized officer, to take the place of the arbitrator on the other 

 part, and in the case of their not agreeing to an umpire, should one be 

 required, the Commissioner of Crown Lands shall appoint one, at the joint 

 expense of the parties, on the request of either of them, or either of the 

 arbitrators. 



19th. Transfers of berths to be in writing, and if not found objection- 

 able by the Crown Lands Department or agent for granting of license, to 

 be valid from the date on which they may be deposited in the hands of the 

 latter; but no transfer to be valid till after one seasons actual occupation 

 by the party transferring them. 



20th. Squatters or other occupants of land without authority, cutting 

 timber or saw logs thereon without license (except for clearing, building 

 or fencing thereon) or others doing so by their permission, will be subject 

 to the penalties established by law for cutting timber without license. 



21st. 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 Crown Timber Officer or Agent; also 

 persons taking violent possession 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 established by Order in Coun- 

 cil, or who forcibly interrupt surveyors, shall be refused further licenses, 

 and their berths become disposable to others on the expiration of their 

 licenses. 



22nd. The Collector of Crown Timber Dues or the officer in charge of 

 the Bytown Timber District, may authorize any of the local Crown Land 

 Agents to collect the duties on any timber or saw logs cut under license for 

 local consumption or that may be sent to market, otherwise than by Bytown ; 

 and air such Agents whose Agencies, or any part of them, may be within or 

 adjoining the Bytown Timber District, are authorized to seize any timber 



