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COLONIAL REPORTS MISCELLANEOUS. 



Account of Timber brought out. 



Date 



Logs. 



Cubic feet. 



Remarks. 



Initials of 

 officer 



Rule 4. The royalties paid oil timber extracted under a 

 licence for trade or barter shall be distributed as follows by the 

 District Commissioner : - 



Three-fifths shall be paid into the local Treasury. 

 Two-fifths to the native communities on whose lands the 

 timber is cut. 



Rule 5. Native communities in receipt of timber royalties 

 shall help the District Commissioner to enforce the conditions 

 under which a licence to trade in timber is granted. 



Some rules providing 1 for penalties to breaches of the above 

 should be added. 



The protection of the trees specified in Rule 1 will cause little 

 or 110 hardship to the native farmers in the open savannahs in 

 which they grow, and with the exception of Afzelia africana they 

 cast very little shade. 



The protection of the belts of vegetation found growing along 

 the banks of streams is of very great importance in the dry zone, 

 and the same remark applies to forest growing round the sources 

 of the streams, on the tops of ridges, and along the crests of hills. 



It is very probable that other trees may have to be eventually 

 put under the protected list when more is known about the forest 

 vegetation of the hinterland. 



General considerations regarding Tim her Rules. 



It will be seen, from the proposals put forth regarding the 

 legislation that is considered necessary in the form of rules, that 

 a certain amount of protection has been afforded to forest areas 

 in general and their exploitation under proper restrictions pro- 

 vided for. Such measures are, however, of a tentative nature and 

 are only necessary till such a time when the best forests and a 

 sufficient extent of wooded land has been placed under the 

 intensive protection afforded by reservation. Reserves are the 

 permanent estates from which the demands for forest-produce 

 will have to be met in the future, and they therefore require 

 different treatment from the generally protected areas, which 

 latter are only protected in order to give sufficient time within 

 which to complete the selection and reservation of the forests that 

 it is considered necessary io manage solely as estates for the supply 

 of forest produce. 



The procedure involved in reservation is a long one, and many 

 years must lapse before enough wooded lauds have been taken 



