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MUNICIPALITIES AND DIVISIONAL COUNCILS. 



Under Act No. 4 of 1876, Divisional Councils and Munici- 

 palities may recover from Government one half of their 

 expenditure on tree-planting within a yearly limit of 250 

 Government contribution. Applications for grants under 

 this Act should be made to the Secretary for Agriculture, 

 Cape Town. 



All such aided trees, and all roadside trees not being 

 private property, are specially protected under the Forest 

 Act ; and may not be removed or cut in any way until after 

 permission has been obtained from the Forest Department. 



POWEK TO STOP TEEES BEING FELLED. 



Under Section 30 of the Forest Act No. 28 of 1888, any 

 person who sees a tree being cut which is not on private 

 property may appeal to the nearest Police, Forest or other 

 Officer, who have power under the Forest Act to then and 

 there stop the cutting of the tree, if the person cutting 

 cannot produce good authority for doing so. 



A private person may also be authorised under the 

 Forest Act to act in the same way as a Forest or Police 

 Officer, to prevent trees being unlawfully felled. 



Under Section 31. When there is reason to believe that 

 a forest offence has been committed, the wood or other 

 forest produce may be seized by a Forest or Police Officer. 



Under Section 35, trees of which the ownership is 

 doubtful are to be considered Crown property until the 

 contrary is proved. 



Further information regarding the trees in this catalogue 

 and others that there was not space to mention here, will 

 be found in the following works : 



" Notes on the Commercial Timbers of N. S.Wales," by 

 J. H. Maiden. Government Printer, Sydney, Is. 6d. 



" Select Extra-Tropical Plants," by Baron Sir F. von 

 Mueller, Melbourne, Australia. 



