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7. All transfers of Timber Berths shall be made in writing, but shall 

 be subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, to whom 

 they shall be transmitted for approval or rejection, and they shall be valid 

 only from the time of such approval, to be expressed in writing. 



8. 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 regulations." 

 When the description of any berth or boundary, as given by any license, 

 clashes with the description of any other licensed berth or territory, the 

 license of more recent origin (tracing back only to the time when such 

 license or any previous license, of which it is a renewal, was first granted) 

 shall give way, and 'the Commissioner may amend or cancel such license 

 wholly or in part, and substitute another in place thereof, so as to correct 

 the description of the berth or limit intended to be licensed ; and in all cases 

 where any license has issued in error or mistake, or is found to be incon- 

 sistent with any other license, or inconsistent or incompatible with the 

 regulations under which it was granted, the Commissioner of Crown Lands 

 may cause it to be cancelled or amended, or he may refer all matters in 

 dispute, with reference to the boundaries and position of Timber Limits, to 

 arbitration, each of the contending parties to choose one Arbitrator, and the 

 Commissioner of Crown Lands shall appoint an Umpire, naming a day on 

 or before which the award of such Arbitrators or of such Umpire ^hall be 

 made and delivered to the parties, and such award shall be binding on 

 them. 



9. Timber cut on limits for which license has been suspended or held 

 in abeyance, shall be considered as having been cut without authority, and 

 treated accordingly. 



10. Occupants, locatees or purchasers of Public Lands, who have not 

 completed all the conditions of sale or location, shall not, unless under 

 Settlers' license or for clearing, building or fencing purposes on the said 

 land, be permitted to cut timber or logs thereon, or to dispose of it to others. 

 Persons found doing so shall be subject to the penalties established by law 

 for cutting timber on the public lands without authority. 



11. All Timber Licenses are to expire on the 30th April next, after 

 the date thereof, and all renewals are to be applied for and issued before 

 the 1st July following the expiration of the last preceding license, in 

 default whereof the right to renewal shall cease and the Berth or Berths 

 shall be treated as forfeited. 



12. No renewal of any license shall be granted unless or until the 

 Ground Rent, and all costs of survey, and all dues to the Crown on timber, 

 saw logs, or other lumber cut under and by virtue of any license, other 

 than the last preceding shall have been first paid. 



13. All Timber Berths or limits shall be subject to an annual Ground 

 Rent of |2 per square mile, payable in advance before the issuing of any 

 original license or renewal. 



14. All timber, saw logs, wood or other lumber cut under any License 

 now in force or under any License which may be hereafter granted, shall 

 be subject to the payment of the following Crown dues, that is to say: — 



Black Walnut and Oak, per cubic foot |0 03 



Elm, Ash, Tamarac and Maple, per cubic, foot 02 



Red and White P'ne, Birch, Basswood, Cedar, Button- 

 wood and Cottonwood, and all Boom Timber, per 



cubic foot OIJ 



All other woods 01 



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