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8. If the Conservator of Forests approves the proposed property 

 mark he shall cause the same to be registered free of charge in a book 

 to be kept in his ofhce and called " The Register of Pi-operty Marks " 

 and shall cause the applicant to be given a certificate of registration. 



9. The Register of Property Marks shall be in Form B in the 

 Schedule hereto and a Certificate of Registration shall be in Form C 

 in the said Schedule. 



10. (i) Every person who shall cut or fell a growing mahogany 

 tree shall, as soon as possible, 



(a) mark the stump thereof with his registered property 

 mark and with a number (called the " stump 

 numb^ ") ; 



(b) mark each of the logs therefrom with the locality 

 mark of the area in which the tree is situate, his 

 registered property mark, the number of the tree and 

 the log number. 



(2) Stump numbers shall run consecutively from number i upwards, 

 number i being applicable to the first mahogany tree felled by any 

 person after he has registered his property mark 



(3) Log numbers shall run consecutively from number i upwards, 

 the butt log always being numbered i 

 Example : — A. has registered the following property mark 



Since doing so he has felled and duly marked 26 

 mahogany trees. On felling the 27th from which he 

 obtains (say) 4 logs and which is situate in an area of 



Vhich the locahty mark is L.5 he must 



mark the stump thus 



27 



mark the butt log thus 1 1-.5 



mark the other logs 

 respectively thus . . 



27.1 



27.2 



27.3 

 27.4 



II. Every person who shall purchase or come into possession of 

 any log, being part of a mahogany tree cut or felled in the Colony or 

 Ashanti, shall as soon as possible mark such log with his property 

 mark. 



