218 COLONIAL REPORTS MISCELLANEOUS. 



Juju, Market and Village Trees. 



21. Notwithstanding the grant of any permission under rule 20, the holders of 

 a licence shall not cut down any trees known as " Juju trees " on the lands 

 included in their licence, or any trees within 400 yards of a market or village 

 on the said lands without the previous consent of the Chiefs of such market and 

 the District Commissioner of the district in which such market or village is 

 situated. 



Removal of Trees on Farm. 



22. Notwithstanding the grant of a licence, the grantors of the licence may 

 farm or permit to be farmed any area or areas of the lands included in the 

 licence over which they have the rights of farming. If any area aforesaid 

 which the grantors intend to farm or permit to be farmed contains any species 

 of timber which the holders of the licence have the right to fell under their 

 licence, the grantor, prior to farming or permitting to be farmed such area, 

 shall give not less than three calendar months' notice of their intention to the 

 holders of the licence or their agent in, and the nearest European Forest 

 Officer of, the district in which such area is situated, and if the holders of the 

 licence shall not fell and remove the timber which they have the right to fell and 

 remove from such area before the expiration of the said notice they shall not fell 

 and remove the same while the area is being farmed. 



Water-wii/s not to be Obstructed. 



23. The holders of a licence shall not allow any timber or other matter to 

 fall or be thrown from the lands included in their licence into any waterway 

 which passes through or along the boundaries of such lands so as to obstruct 

 the navigation of such waterway. Any logs found adrift or not properly 

 formed into rafts and in charge of raftsmen in any waterway shall be liable to 

 confiscation, provided always that the owner of such logs may re-obtain 

 possession thereof upon payment of a penalty amounting to twenty-eight 

 shillings per log in the case of mahogany and cedars, and ten shillings per log 

 for other timber. But the payment of such penalty shall not release the owner 

 of such log or logs from any civil or criminal liability for damage which he 

 may have incurred. 



General Powers of Grantees. 



24. (1) The holders of a licence may on the land included in their licence 

 extend, dig and set up pits, stages and erections, and make such-, roads and 

 ways as are necessary for dressing and carrying away timber, and may erect 

 such houses, offices, sheds and other buildings as are necessary for the residence 

 and use of their agents, workmen and servants. The holders of a licence shall 

 not damage or allow damage to be done to any rubber or other trees, under- 

 growth or crops other than such damage as is incidental to and unavoidable in 

 the exercise of the rights conferred by their licence. 



Farming. 



(2) No part of the land included in a licence shall be farmed by the holders 

 of the licence unless and until the consent of the owner of such lands and of the 

 nearest European Forest Officer has been obtained. 



Girtlt of Trees. 



25. No mahogany tree of the genera Khaya (known as Ogwango to the Benis 

 and Gadeau to the Yorubas), or Entandrophragma (known as Ikpwapobo and 

 Onomokyukyu to the Benis and Ahtore to the Efiks) ; and no cedar tree of the 

 genera Pseudocedrela, Trichilia or Guarea (known as Opobo, Opobonikwi and 

 Opobonufwa to the Benis) of a less girth than twelve feet at a point ten feet 

 from the ground : and no tree of the species Chlorophora excelsa (known as 

 Oroko to the Benis and Yorubas) of a less girth than nine feet at a point 

 four feet six inches from the ground ; and no tree of the species Oldfieldia 

 africana (African Oak) of a less girth than eight feet at a po ; nt four feet 



