128 COLONIAL REPORTS MISCELLANEOUS. 



have been paid, belong to the owner of the mark. The latter 

 denote the origin or the quality of the timber or by whose agency 

 the timber was handled. 



"2. ' Classification marks ' may be impressed only on timber 

 bearing registered property marks. Classification marks may 

 only be impressed upon the authority of the person whose regis- 

 tered property mark has already been impressed on the timber. 



" 3. All property marks and classification marks and all 

 transfers of .such marks shall be registered in the manner here- 

 inafter provided. 



" 4. Except by the authority of an officer in charge of a forest 

 division, no person shall impress a property mark on any un- 

 marked timber unless he acts under the authority of the owner or 

 licensed extractor of the timber and impresses the registered pro- 

 perty mark of such owner or extractor on such timber before it 

 is launched in a floating stream. 



" 5. Except by the authority of an officer in charge of a forest 

 division no person shall 



" (a) Mark any timber save with a hammer, the possession 

 of which has been licensed in Form XIX. or XIX. a., and sub- 

 ject to the conditions of that license; or 



" (&.) Impress any mark on timber save a mark registered in 

 manner hereinafter provided. 



" 6. Except 'by the authority of a person in charge of a forest 

 division no person shall alter or efface any mark on timber and 

 except by like authority no person shall impress a property mark 

 on timber already bearing any mark, unless the timber bears 

 a mark denoting that all money payable to the Government " 

 (to this should be added the word "Grantors' 1 for the Gold 

 Coast Rules) " in respect thereof has been paid and the person 

 acts under the authority of the owner of the timber and uses the 

 registered property mark of such owner. 



" 7. No person shall possess or carry marking hammers or 

 other implements used for marking timber save under and 

 subject to the conditions of a licence in Eorrn XIX. or XIX. a. 

 issued by the officer in charge of a forest division. 



" 8. No person shall import timber and no person shall for 

 trade purposes move in transit unconverted or rough-hewn 

 timber extracted for trade purposes, unless each log or piece of 

 such timber is distinctly stamped with a registered property 

 mark. 



"Exception. This rule does not apply to bamboos, canes, or 

 firewood in billets or to timber extracted by or on behalf of 

 Government for its use or sale. 



" 9. Registration of a classification mark or a property mark 

 shall be effected 'by the owner at a Divisional Forest Office^ The 

 forest officer in charge of such office may refuse registration of 

 any mark. After registering any mark the forest officer shall 

 send copies thereof to the offices of other forest divisions where 

 the mark is used. 



" 10. If the forest officer refuses the registration of any pro- 

 perty mark or classification mark he shall record his reasons in 



