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lessee is allowed to begin operations or recovered in two or more 

 instalments, the first to be paid down immediately on conclusion of 

 the sale, the last while there is still enough produce in the forest 

 to cover the balance due. In the case of petty sales it is best to 

 exact a single instalment paid in advance. 



Section IV. — Sale of a small numbee of selected trees 



AT A TIME, 



Under this system a small number of trees are given on special 

 application, the applicants being generally the would-be consumers 

 themselves or petty tradesmen. This is the mode of sale to adopt 

 when the demand is insignificant and irregular and is limited to 

 large and valuable timber. It is specially well adapted for the 

 sale of the larger and more valuable trees standing in areas which 

 are worked for the less valuable portion of the material by the 

 license or the kham tahsil system. It may also be employed for 

 the disposal of the best trees in regular coupes ; but in this case 

 there is always risk of the value of the remaining produce being 

 depreciated out of proportion, owing to the previous removal of the 

 best material, and in some cases the depreciated stock may even fail 

 to find a purchaser. 



The trees selected for removal may of course include dead and na- 

 turally fallen trees as well as those standing. Standing trees should 

 be marked at the foot only if they are to be converted before re- 

 moval, and at the foot and also just above the place where they are 

 to be cut off, if the trunk is to be taken out round. When the pro- 

 duce is converted before export, each piece should be stamped with 

 the sale mark before it is allowed to be removed. The sale mark 

 should also be similarly put on round logs before they are taken out. 



Section V. — Wholesale disposal of the trees of a 

 COUPE standing. 



This system cannot obviously be adopted for the produce of clean- 

 ings and early thinnings, in "which operations the felling has to be 

 effected by the owner's agency. Its employment is also out of the 

 question in the absence of a large class of well-to-do and honest 

 dealers. When it can be adopted, it is by far the best method to 

 employ, as it leaves the conservancy establishment completely free 

 to devote itself to its legitimate duties of culture and protection. 



The trees being marked for sale (or girdled and killed, as in 

 Burmah), the first point to decide is whether tliey should be sold 

 by public auction or by inviting sealed or open tenders ; also 



