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siuii of such timber within the further period mentioned in 

 Section 48, the ownership of such timber shall vest in the 

 Government free from all mcTunbrances or, when such timber 

 has been delivered to another person under Section 48, in such 

 person free from all incumbrances not created by him. 



'' 50. No person shall be entitled to recover possession of any 

 timber collected or delivered as aforesaid until such sum. as may 

 be due for salving, collecting, moving, storing, and disposing 

 of the timber has been paid by him to the forest officer or other 

 person entitled to receive the sum. 



" 51. (1.) The local Government may make rules to regulate 

 the following matters, namely :- 



" (//.) The salving, collection, and disposal of all timber 

 mentioned in Section 40 ; 



" (6.) The use and registration of boats used in salving and 

 collecting timber ; 



" (c.) The amount to be paid for salving and collecting, mov- 

 ing, storing, and disposing of such timber; and 



'' (d.) The use and registration of hammers and other imple- 

 ments to be used for marking such timber. 



("2.) The Local Government may by rule under this section 

 attach to the breach of any rule under this section any punish- 

 ment not exceeding imprisonment for a term which may extend 

 to six months, or fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, 

 or both." 



The above-quoted sections belong to the Upper Burma Forest 

 Regulations which correspond to the forest ordinan res of Southern 

 Nigeria, and as the latter in Sections 20 (11) and '20 (12) does give 

 the Governor in Council the power to make rules to regulate the 

 " transport of timber by land and water," and the " salving and 

 disposal of drift timber," these sections of the Upper Burma 

 forest regulations can be taken as a basis on Avhich to frame the 

 rules that the Southern Nigerian ordinance provides for. The 

 Upper Burma regulations have merely expressed in more detail 

 in the regulations itself what would ordinarily be expressed in 

 rules framed under the principal ordinances of our Colonies. 



The Upper Burma forest rules relating to the salving, collec- 

 tion, and disposal of drift, stranded, or other timber are:- 



" Rule 68. J In Rules ,69 to 74, the following words have the fol- 

 lowing meaning : - 



" Log means a piece of timber which is 4 feet 6 inches or 



more in mean girth (i.e., the girth taken at the middle 



of length of the log). 

 ' Yatthit means a piece of timber 15 feet or more in length 



and having a mean girth of 2 feet or more but less 



than 4 feet 6 inches. 

 '' Piece means a piece of timber that is neither a log nor a 



yatthit. 



"69. All timber found adrift, beached, stranded, or sunk may 

 be salved by any person, and shall either be secured on a bank or, 



