128 WHOLESALE DISPOSAL OP FELLED MATERIAL. 



first one being taken before the purchaser is allowed to begin work, 

 and the last while there is still enough material (whether it be 

 scattered over the whole area or collected at temporary depots) to 

 cover the amount of the instalment. In the event of any instal- 

 ment not being paid when it falls due, there should be a proviso in 

 the written conditions of sale to empower the owner to recover it by 

 seizing and appropriating the produce remaining unexported. If 

 the value to be paid by the purchaser is calculated on the basis of 

 unit rates, the money may be recovered in the same way, or in one 

 of two other ways. Either the purchaser may be made to pay 

 down a sufficiently large sum as earnest-money on the conclusion 

 of the sale, and to make good the balance when all the produce has 

 been collected and counted or measured up, as the case may be, or 

 he may be required to pay the value of the produce as he takes it 

 out, the earnest-money in this case being refunded to him when his 

 operations have been completed. What is termed the " permit and 

 revenue depot system " and adopted in the Central Circle of the 

 N.-W. Provinces and Oudh, is a practical application of the latter 

 method. The system in question is a development of the kham 

 tahsil system, which it can replace at once without any derange- 

 ment of current arrangements, the revenue stations serving at once 

 as depots where the out-going produce has to be stopped for check 

 and counting or measurement and the price has to be collected, 

 and the only change required being that instead of any and every 

 one being allowed to go into the forest and cut and collect what he 

 likes, only hond fide purchasers, with whom distinct contracts have 

 been made, may cut and export. It is always impolitic to put temp- 

 tation in the way of people on small salaries, and hence, where 

 Government treasuries or private banks are not far off, the large 

 sums of money due at various times from the purchaser of whole 

 coupes should be paid direct to a treasury or bank, the pass for 

 the wood being given to the purchaser on bis presentation of the 

 receipt for the money. And, whenever possible, only well-paid 

 officers, holding high responsibility, should be authorized to measure 

 up and value large quantities of produce, which are to be paid for 

 on the basis of unit of volume or number. 



Section VI. — Wholesale disposal of the trees on the 



COUPE AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN FELLED. 



In this case the owner fells the trees and then sells them, as they 

 lie on the ground, to one or a series of wholesale purchasers, as the 

 case may be. The object of felling the wood himself is to ensure 



