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COLONIAL REPORTS MISCELLANEOUS. 



at the discretion of the salver, be iakeii to the next station down 

 stream notified under Section 4(> of the Upper Burma Forest 

 liegulations, 1898, as a station for the reception of drift timber. 



" 70. (1) 'The salver shall be entitled to the following bank- 

 salvage for the securing of the timber:- 



and in addition thereto a payment at such rates as may from time 

 to time be prescribed by the Conservator for delivery of timber 

 at stations notified as aforesaid. 



" (2.) When rafts or compartments of a raft which have been 

 abandoned by raftsmen are salved only half the bank-salvage 

 shall be payable." (X 1 OTE. One anna = one penny.) 



" 71. The salver shall not deliver any timber salved by him to 

 any person but a forest officer or a person entitled under a licence 

 to collect such timber, and may refuse such delivery until the full 

 payment to which he is entitled under the last foregoing rule has 

 been tendered. 



" 72. (1.) No person other than a forest officer shall collect 

 salved timber without a licence or otherwise than in accordance 

 with the conditions of the licence. 



" | (2.) Such licence shall be granted by the officer in charge of 

 the forest division, and shall be in the form of Appendix XX. to 

 these rules. 



" 73. For all salved timber delivered to owners from stations 

 notified as aforesaid the following fees shall be paid in addition 

 to the salvage charges prescribed in and under Rule 70. 



' 74. On timber stored or left at a station notified for the recep- 

 tion of drift timber for more than one month after the timber 

 has been delivered by a forest officer to a claimant under Section 

 45 of the regulations, a fee of two annas per log shall be levied 

 for each month or fraction of a month during which the log re- 

 mains at the station. Provided that no fee shall lie leviable until 

 after the expiry of fourteen days from the date of issue of notice 

 in writing to the owner or other person interested in the timber, 

 requiring him to remove it. The period of fourteen days shall 



