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3 (i) of the Timber Protection Ordinance ; namely, 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. 



The onus of proof that the timber in question has not been obtained 

 from a tree below the prescribed girth shall be on any person charged 

 with a breach of this rule. 



2. Any person contravening the above rule shall be liable on 

 conviction to a fine not exceeding ten pounds and the timber cut in 

 contravention thereof shall be liable to forfeiture. 



{Made ^th August, 1910.) 



GOLD COAST COLONY. 



RULE. 



No. 13 OF 1921. 



RULES UNDER THE TIMBER PROTECTION ORDINANCE, 1907. 



Under sections 4 and 5 of the above-mentioned Ordinance, I, Frederick 

 Gordon Guggisberg, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Gold 

 Coast Colony, with the advice of the Executive Council, do hereby 

 make the following rules : — 



1. These rules may be cited as " The Timber Protection Rules, 

 1921." 



2. Nothing in these rules shall apply to a native cutting mahogany 

 with the consent of the Chief and Councillors of the Stool within 

 whose jurisdiction such mahogany is grown and otherwise than for 

 export or to any mahogany so cut. 



3. The Conservator of Forests shall divide such parts of the Colony 

 as he shall deem necessary into such areas as he shall think fit and shall 

 allot to each of such areas a distinctive mark to be known as a " Locality 

 mark " ; and shall keep at his office at Coomassie a record of such 

 division and of the locahty marks allotted, which shall be open to 

 public inspection, free of charge during ordinary office hours. 



4. No person shall cut or fell any growing mahogany tree unless 

 and until he shall have registered a property mark at the office of the 

 Conservator of Forests, Coomassie. 



5. No person shall purchase or possess any log, being part of a 

 mahogany tree cut or felled in the Colony, unless and until he shall 

 have registered a property mark at the office of the Conservator of 

 Forests, Coomassie. 



6. Applications for registration of a property mark shall be made 

 in writing to the Conservator of Forests, Coomassie, and shall be in 

 Form A in the Schedule hereto. 



7. Should the Conservator of Forests consider the proposed 

 property mark in any way unsuitable, he may refuse to register the 

 same. 



