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18. Before moving any raft or parcel of timber, lumber or saw Icf^s 

 from the agency in wbicb it bas been cut, the owner or person in charge 

 thereof shall make report thereof to the Crown Timber Agent, making, if 

 required, declaration upon oath as to the number of pieces of each kind of 

 wood contained therein, and the number of cribs; and to exempt timber 

 from private land, if any, from dues as Crown timber, — must furnish satis- 

 factory afl&davit stating what lots it was cut upon and how much on each 

 lot, — whereupon he shall obtain a clearance from the Crown Timber^ Agent, 

 stating the number of pieces in the raft or parcel, how many, if any, have 

 been satisfactorily proved to be from private lands, and on how many, if 

 any, the dues have been previously or then paid. On the arrival of any 

 such raft or parcel at Quebec, or any intermediate place, or other port, for 

 sale or shipment, the owner or holder of it shall make report thereof to the 

 Collector of Crown Timber Dues, or Deputy Supervisor of Cullers, or other 

 appointed officer, within forty-eight hours, and in addition to the quantity 

 shewn by the clearance as subject to dues, any surplus timber beyond the 

 number of pieces stated therein, on being ascertained by the Collector of 

 Crown Timber Dues, Deputy Supervisor of Cullers or other authorized 

 officer, if not satisfactorily accounted for, shall be held as having been cut 

 upon Crown Lands and be subject to the payment of dues accordingly. 



19. Parties omitting to report the departure of their rafts or other 

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

 at Quebec or Montreal or other port or place, for sale or shipment, within 

 th^ Province as before mentioned, may be refused further license — and be 

 subject to forfeiture of the timber for evasion of Regulations as provided in 

 section 3rd of Cap. 23, of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada. 



20. Occupants, grantees or purchasers of Public Lands who have not 

 completed all conditions of sale, or grant, cutting timber without license 

 (except for clearing, building or fencing thereon) or others doing so by 

 their permission, shall be subjected to the penalties established by law for 

 cutting timber without authority. 



21. Persons evading or refusing the payment of timber or slide dues, 

 or the final settlement of bonds or promissory notes, given for the same, or 

 in default with the Crown Timber Office or Agent, also persons taking 

 violent possession of disputed ground before obtaining decision in their 

 favor, and persons refusing to comply with the decision of arbitrators or 

 with Regulations estaV »''ied by Orders in Council, or who forcibly inter- 

 rupt Surveyors, shall 1 . refused further licenses, and their berths become 

 disposable to others on the expiration of their licenses. 



22. Licenses are to be granted on the annexed form in duplicate, the 

 clause at the foot thereof must in the duplicates be signed by two securities 

 and the description of each berth is to be written on the back thereof. The 

 duplicates to be kept of record by the Crown Timber Agent. 



23. Dues of all kinds on timber cut under license remaining unpaid on 

 30th November following the season in which it was cut, to be subject to 

 interest from that date, out without prejudice to the power of the Crown 

 to enforce payment of such outstanding dues. 



The most noteworthy changes were the provision for regularly held 

 and systematic auction sales for vacant timber berths, and the fixing of an 

 upset price in all cases, upon the berths to be offered. The new regula- 

 tions, moreover, were a good deal more stringent in the provisions designed 

 for the prevention of fraud in evading the payment of timber dues. 



