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2. The officers appointed for the administration of the forests 



are- 



(1.) The Superintendent. 



(2.) The Assistants in Districts. 



(3.) Goungs and Goung-gwais in Forest Tracts. 



3. No person is permitted to girdle or to fell any teak tree, 

 large or small, except by the express orders of the superintendent 

 or his assistants. 



4. No person is permitted to cut or break off the branches of 

 teak trees, or otherwise injure them. 



5. Other trees besides teak, which may have been girdled by 

 order of the superintendent, are likewise neither to be felled nor 

 removed, except by orders from the same officer. 



6. The felling, or dragging of trees, which any person may be 

 permitted to remove from the forest, must always be done in such 

 a manner as not to break or injure any teak trees. 



7. No person shall remove, or cut in pieces, or otherwise deface 

 any teak log lying within the boundaries of any forest, except 

 by order of the superintendent. 



8. No person is permitted to set fire to any teak timber, stand- 

 ing or felled. 



9. Should, therefore, natthat or seasoned timber, or logs, be 

 found in a place selected for a toungya or hill-plantation, the 

 men who intend working the toungya, before doing so must fell 

 and remove the same to such distance that the fire of the toungya 

 cannot reach them. 



10. In the case above mentioned (No. 9.), no special permis- 

 sion is required for the felling or removing of teak timber to form 

 toungyas ; but information must be given of this having been 

 done to the nearest goung-gwai, who is ordered to visit every 

 village in his district soon after the rains. 



11. No toungya is to be formed on any spot of ground on 

 which stand any number of teak trees exceeding fifty (large or 

 small), seedlings included. In special cases, the superintendent 

 or his assistants may grant permission for toungyas to be formed 

 in such spots where it appears to them that the teak cannot be 

 made available for the use of the forest department. 



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