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count from the dale of notice whether the notice reaches the 

 owner or person interested or not. It shall be the duty of the 

 owner or person interested in timber stored or left at a drift 

 timber station properly to secure it and keep it in safety, no 

 responsibility in respect thereto being undertaken by the forest 

 officer in charge or by Government." 



Such are the provisions that it has been found necessary to 

 make in Burma for the protection of forest produce in transit. 

 Similar enactments, modified to suit local requirements, should 

 be made in the timber rules for the Gold Coast. The spirit and 

 essential points of the above quoted rules and regulations should, 

 however, be preserved in the local rules, as they have been based 

 on a long experience of timber exploitation and the dangers that 

 have to be guarded against in a country where the conditions are 

 somewhat similar to those prevailing in A Vest Africa. 



It remains now to mention that stations for the reception of 

 drift timber will have to be notified from time to time in the 

 Official Gazette; a few of them along the course of the Ankobra 

 River and one at Sekondi should suffice for the present. In the 

 event of the forests in the lower Tano drainage being much ex- 

 ploited a station will have to be formed at the mouth of the canal 

 leading from that river to Half Assini. 



The licence to collect salved timber should be in the following 

 form : 



Book number Licence number 



Licence to collect salved timber under Rule of the Timber 

 Rules has been granted to of , 



who is permitted to pay bank-salvage and collect logs bearing 

 the marks noted below within the under-mentioned limits from 

 the {date} to the (dote) both 



days inclusive, subject to tlie following conditions :- 



(1.) That bank-salvage shall be paid at the rate fixed by 

 Rule of the Timber Rules. 



(2.) That no timber bearing marks other than those noted 

 below shall be collected. 



(3.) That only the person in whose name the licence is issued 

 shall collect timber under the licence, and that at the 

 time of collection the licence shall be in his possession. 



(4.) That the timber shall be brought to and reported at one 

 other of the following places, namely : - 



The limits above referred to are 

 The marks above referred to are 



Breach of any of the conditions of this licence will render the 

 licence liable to forfeiture and the holder thereof to the punish- 

 ment prescribed in the following rules. 



Date. Signature of officer granting the licence. 



