23b REPORT OF THE No. 3 



to occupation, shall (after the holder of it has had an opportunity of being 

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

 before the first day of November and proving the same by the affidavit of 

 a commissioned Surveyor before the first day of December following the 

 date of the false statement made. If half occupation only be proved, the 

 holder of the license may retain one-half the berth after it has been equit- 

 ably divided by the Crown Timber Agent. 



8. License holders who shall have duly complied with all existing 

 Regulations shall be entitled to renewals of their licenses, provided they 

 shall have made and delivered to the Crown Timber Agent of the locality, 

 before the thirtieth day of September, or such prior date in any locality 

 as the Commissioner may fix, sworn statements of the number and descrip- 

 tion of pieces of timber and saw logs cut by themselves or by others to their 

 knowledge upon each of the berths held by them during the previous sea- 

 son : and shall have paid to the Crown, on or before the fifth day of Decem- 

 ber following, the ground rent payable for renewal of their licenses for the 

 ensuing season; but should they fail to comply with these conditions in 

 respect to any berths held by them, such berths shall thereby become vacant 

 and the right to license therefor forfeited and they shall be sold at public 

 auction or be otherwise disposed of as before mentioned, excepting that if 

 double the ground rent otherwise chargeable be paid for omitting to furnish 

 the statement above mentioned, and payment be made before the day of sale 

 with ten per cent, in addiion for each month of the delay in payment, the 

 berth may be re-licensed to the former holder. 



9. License holders desirous of obtaining renewal of license must make 

 application for such renewal to the Crown Timber Agent of the locality 

 before the 1st of July in each year, stating what berths have been duly 

 occupied, failing which such berths shall be charged with the rate of ground 

 rent payable on non-occupation. 



10. Crown Timber Agents shall keep registers of all licenses granted or 

 renewed by them and transfers thereof, which, together with their plans 

 of licensed berths and vacant ground, shall be open for public inspection. 



11. Transfers of timber berths to be in writing, and if not found objec- 

 tionable bv the Crown Lands Department, or agent for the granting of 

 licenses, to be valid from the date on which they may be deposited in the 

 hands of the latter; but no transfer to be accepted while the party trans- 

 ferring is in default for non-payment of dues on timber to the Crown. 



12. Timber berths are to be described in new licenses as "not to inter- 

 fere with prior licenses existing or to be renewed in virtue of Regulatons" 

 on the date of their first being issued. Where licenses clash, the one of 

 more recent origin is to give way to that of prior date, computing back to 

 the season it was last acquired at auction, or by grant from the Crown. And 

 should any license, by error or defect in its description, be found evidently 

 incompatible with the intention or regulations under which it was granted, 

 the Commissioner of Crown Lands may cause it to be cancelled or amended. 



13. The Inspector of Crown Timber Agencies at Ottawa, and any officer 

 thereunto authorized elsewhere, shall, at the written request of any person 

 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, who must 

 cause copies of the -^lans and field notes of the surveys to be delivered to 

 the officer giving the instructions, subject to his examination and approval, 

 to be paid for by him and kept on record by the Crown Timber Agent of 

 the locality. 



