326 PEGU FOREST RULES. 



12. Nurseries or plantations formed by order of the Superin- 

 tendent of Forests are not to be injured in any way. 



13. Whenever the superintendent or his assistants may think 

 it fit to reserve any tract in the forest, no tree, shrub, or dead 

 timber' in the said tract is to be injured, felled, or removed, ex- 

 cept by the servants of the forest department. No tract of a 

 size exceeding ten acres is to be thus reserved without the special 

 sanction of the Commissioner. 



14. Whenever the Superintendent of Forests, or his assist- 

 ants, may find it necessary to mark trees of any kind with the 

 Government mark, such trees are neither to be cut or injured in 

 any way. 



15. Poles or other signs put up to mark the boundary of a re- 

 served tract, or for other purposes ; likewise sheds, bridges, fences, 

 or buildings of any kind, together with roads, and ditches, erected 

 or made by orders of the superintendent, are not to be removed 

 or injured in any way. 



16. It will be the duty of the forest goungs and goung-gwais 

 to see that these rules are not violated; and should they in any 

 case be infringed, to report the same to the superintendent or 

 his assistants. 



17. Private parties in the districts near the forests, and at a 

 distance from the principal rivers, who may be desirous of pur- 

 chasing teak timber for their own use in the district, may obtain 

 the same by applying to the superintendent. If the application 

 can be granted, orderB will be given to the forest goung-gwais 

 to point out the trees or logs available for the purpose. The 

 purchasers will have to fell and to remove the timber within a 

 fixed time. The price to be paid for the same will be settled by 

 the superintendent, and one-fourth of it is to be paid before any 

 timber is felled. If the timber be not removed within the time 

 specified, it will be liable to be confiscated, and the amount paid 

 in advance forfeited. 



18. Permission to bring away branches of felled trees or other 

 small pieces of timber, such as slabs cut off from squared logs, or 

 the stumps remaining after the tree has been felled, will be given 

 to parties applying for the same on their depositing a certain 

 sum as a security, and on payment of a fixed price for one year's 



