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In the above Rules the divisional forest officer corresponds to a 

 Provincial forest officer of Southern Nigeria, and deputy com- 

 missioner to a district commissioner in our West African Colonies 

 and Protectorates. 



Additional Rules will be required : - 



1. To regulate the size of rafts and the minimum number of 

 men in charge of them. This will depend on local conditions 

 and the presence or absence of dredgers and launches in the 



water-ways. 



2. To provide for the establishment of timber depots at 



(a.) The mouth of the Ankobra River; 



(b.) The terminus of the railway at Sekondi, 

 for the purpose of examining all timber before it is exported to 

 Europe. 



The particular spots at which the depots are to be formed 

 should be left till a forest department has been formed on the 

 Gold Coast. 



The Customs authorities will have to see that no logs are 

 shipped for Europe that do not bear the Government Pass mark. 



Timber imported from Europe might be exempted from the 

 rules relating to hammer marks and Passes. 



Rule 14 of the Southern Nigerian Timber Rules will require 

 alteration in accordance with the above quoted rules regarding 

 the registration of hammer marks. 



'' Classification marks," I may explain, are marks used by 

 timber merchants and others for their own private information 

 with a view to indicating from what forest, stream, or contractor, 

 &c., the timber is procured. 



3. A rule to the effect that- 



No person shall convert, cut, burn, or conceal any timber in 

 respect of which any money is payable to Government or the 

 native communities. 



4. A rule to the effect thai- 

 No person shall establish or convert timber at a saw-pit or 



saw-mill within a distance of 1 mile from any river used for 

 floating timber in rafts or of 10 miles of any railway, save under 

 and subject to the conditions of a licence in the form given below, 

 granted by the district commissioner or forest officer of a district 

 or by an officer empowered by either of them. 



The licence form should be as follows : 



Book number Licence number 



Licence to establish and convert timber at a sawpit or sawmill 

 has been granted under Rule of the Timber Rules to (mnnc of 

 person) of (residence) for a period of (months) under the following 

 conditions from the (date] to the (date). 



(1) That the sawpit is established within the following 

 boundaries .......... 



(2) That this licence is not transferable and must be in the 

 possession of the person to whom it was granted or of his agent, 

 when such person or his agent is using the sawpit. 



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