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Crown Timber Regulations, 1866. 



1. Licenses for such vacant berths as the Commissioner of Crown Lands 

 may see fit, together with all vacant forfeited timber licenses, shall be 

 offered for sale at public auctions to be held half yearly in each Timber 

 Agency, on the 10th of July and the 10th of January, (or on such other 

 dates as the Commissioner of Crown Lands may fix by public notice) at an 

 upset price of Four Dollars a square mile or such other rate as he may fix 

 by such notice, and shall be awarded to the highest bidder making immedi- 

 ate payment at the time of sale ; and if not then sold shall be granted to the 

 first applicant thereafter making immediate payment of the upset price and 

 ground rent. But in case of two or more applications for any such berth 

 being received at the same time, it shall be immediately again offered for 

 sale by public auction. Unissued Licenses already awarded, however, and 

 such as may be awarded by the Commissioner of Crown Lands on existing 

 grantable applications, under Eegulations of 8th August, 1851, shall be 

 granted on the terms upon which they have been or may be awarded. In 

 the intervals between sales, licenses for new Timber Berths for which 

 applications may be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, or Crown 

 Timber Agent for the territory in which they lie, may be granted to the 

 first applicants paying in with their applications the upset price and ground 

 rent above mentioned. Not more than one berth to each applicant — ^the 

 bonus to be returned should the berth be relinquished as valueless within six 

 months without cutting timber on it. 



2. Applications must be in writing and the spaces asked in them must 

 be distinctly . described in connection with known points established by sur- 

 vey or boundaries already defined, or if in surveyed townships the lots and 

 ranges must be stated. 



3. No timber Berth shall be licensed in unsurveyed lands exceeding 

 ten miles in length by five miles in breadth or fifty superficial miles in area 

 and half that size in surveyed townships, the area to be estimated by the 

 Crown timber agent or other authorized ofiicer. 



4. All timber licenses are to expire on the 30th April following the 

 date thereof. 



5. Newly granted Licenses, and renewals of licenses that have been 

 duly occupied, shall be subject to a yearly Ground Rent of fifty cents each 

 superficial mile of area included within their limits,, estimated as before 

 mentioned ; but in computing the ground rent no license shall be charged at 

 less than eight miles of area. 



6. The Ground Rent to be exacted on the renewal of any license shall 

 be double that of the preceding year if the berth licensed has not been duly 

 occupied, increasing annually in that proportion while the berth continues 

 unoccupied (exceptinar the year succeeding that in which the license has 

 been first granted, if not in a surveyed township); but the so increasing 

 ground rent shall not exceed the rate of twenty-three shillings and four 

 pence a mile, (being equal to the lowest amount of duties on square timber 

 the ground would yield if duly occupied, added to the rate of fifty cents 

 first mentioned) reverting to the original rate on the berth being duly 

 occupied. The making of an average of five hundred feet of square timber 

 or 20 saw logs to the mile, to be considered as due occupation. No claim for 

 reimbursement of ground rent over calculated to be entertained after the 

 issue of license. 



7. No timber berth shall be forfeited for the non-occupation of it, pro- 

 vided the increased ground rent on that account be duly paid; but any 

 berth on which the increased ground rent is evaded by false statements as 



