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Orders and Rules. 

 Under the Ashanti Rivers Ordinance . . 

 Survey Rules 



Charges for Government Surveys 

 With respect to the Conservation of Forests 

 The Timber Protection Rules (Ashanti) 1921 



Bye-Laws. 

 Proposed for the Protection of Forests . . 



The Northern Territories 

 Ordinances. 

 The Northern Territories Administration Ordinance 

 The Northern Territories Rivers Ordinance 



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FOREST CONSERVATION AND TIMBER PROTECTION. 



The Gold Coast Colony. 



Chap. 96.— TIMBER PROTECTION. 

 An Ordinance to prevent the cutting of immature timber. 



[ZOth, December, 1907. 

 Whereas it is expedient to make provision for the protection of timber 

 by prohibiting the cutting of immature trees : 



Be it therefore, enacted by the Governor of the Gold Coast Colony, 

 with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as 

 follows : — 



1. This Ordinance may be cited as " The Timber Protection 

 Ordinance." 



2. In this Ordinance, " timber tree " means a tree which is included 

 in the Schedule to this Ordinance, or which may hereafter be added 

 thereto, by whatsoever name such tree may be known in the Colon}^ 



3. (i) No person shall without the permission in writing of a District 

 Commissioner cut or fell any growing timber tree the girth of which is 

 smaller than the following dimensions : — 



{a) In the case of timber trees in Part i of the Schedule 

 to this Ordinance a girth of nine feet at a point one foot above 

 the convergence of the buttress roots, if any, or at the base 

 where there are no such roots. 



(&) In the case of timber trees in Part II. of the Schedule 

 to this Ordinance a girth of four feet six inches, at a point one 

 foot above the convergence of the buttress roots, if any, or at 

 the base where there are no such roots. 



(c) In the case of timber trees in Part III. of the Schedule 

 to this Ordinance a girth of three feet at a point one foot 

 above the base. 



