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CHAPTER IV.— DISPOSAL AND SALE OF WOOD IN 

 THE FOREST. 



The question of supplying right-holders with the wood to which 

 they are entitled belongs to the province of forest law, to which 

 the student must refer for information. Here we shall concern 

 ourselves only with wood to be disposed of by sale. 



The conditions under which the sale of wood may be effected are 

 infinite, and would require a large volume to be adequately dealt 

 with. For our purpose it is necessary only to describe very briefly 

 the most characteristic elementary systems of sale, a general ac- 

 quaintance with which ought to suffice to form the judgment of the 

 student. These systems are: — 



I. — The license or permit system. 

 II. — The kham tahsil system. 

 III. — The lease system. 



IV. — Sale of a small number of selected trees at a time. 

 V. — Wholesale disposal of the trees of a coupe standing. 

 VI. — Wholesale disposal of the trees on the coupe after they 



have fallen 

 VII. — The forest dep6t system. 



SjiJCTioN I. — The License ob Peemit System. 



In this system the would-be purchaser must, before he can 

 enter the forest and begin to cut and collect his wood, purchase a 

 license or permit, which, besides setting forth in detail the nature 

 and the quantity of the produce he is authorized to remove, lays 

 down certain conditions to be strictly observed, which have for 

 their object the safety of tbe forest and easy and effective exercise 

 of the necessary check over his action. For this purpose the per- 

 mit must define the area within which he must cut, specify the 

 road by which he must take out his produce, fix the period within 

 which be must pass it out, and make it compulsory for him to 

 submit his license and his goods to examination whenever called 

 upon to do so by any competent Forest Officer. The license is 

 usually in foil and counterfoil, the former being given to the pur- 

 chaser, the latter being retained by the vendor for submission to 

 the Accounts Office. Sometimes the foil is double, so that one part 

 may be torn off by tbe person checking the produce when it first 

 passes out of the forest, and sent independently of the counterfoil 



