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GOLD COAST COLONY. 



RULE No. 33 of 1921. 

 UNDER THE TIMBER PROTECTION ORDINANCE (Cap. 96). 



Under and by virtue of the provisions of section 5 of the above- 

 mentioned Ordinance, I, Reginald Warren Hale Wilkinson, Esquire, 

 Acting Governor of the Gold Coast Colony, with the advice of the 

 Executive Council, do hereby amend Rule 17 of the Timber Protection 

 Rules, 1921 (Rtile No. 13 of 1921), made by the Governor in Council 

 on the i6th day of February, 1921, by substituting a full stop for the 

 comma appearing after the word " pounds," and by deleting all the 

 words appearing thereafter. 



Made at a meeting of the Executive Council held at Government 

 House, Accra, this 29th day of November, 1921. 



(Sgd.) R. W. H. WILKINSON, 



Acting Governor. 



proposed bye-laws for the protection of forest. 



Gold Coast Colony or Ashanti (as the case may be). 



Bye-laws made on the day of 19 , 



at a meeting duly called for the purpose by Omanhene 



of , and Chiefs and Councillors of his Stool, pursuant to 



the provisions of the Native Jurisdiction Ordinance. 



1. (i) It shall not be lawful for any person to make any clearing or 

 cultivation upon any of the following hills in the Division : — 



{Here the names of all hills the slopes of which are 30° and over must 

 be given.) 



(2) Any person who owns a cocoa plantation upon any of the 

 above-named hills may keep the same until the plants are exhausted, 

 but shall not on any account extend the clearing any further than the 

 portion actually occupied by the cocoa trees, nor shall he replant with 

 cocoa or any other crop the area now under cocoa. 



(3) Any person who owns any farm of foodstuffs upon any of the 

 above-named hills shall remove his or her crops within two years from 

 the date of passing of these bye-laws, and shall not make any clearing 

 upon the same after the crops have all been removed. 



2. It shall not be lawful for any native of .to cut 



down or fell any of the following timber trees without first obtaining 

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

 jurisdiction the same are situated. 



1. Khaya sp : Dubini, Odubin, Dukuma, Kwabohoro, Mpengwa. 



2. Entandrophragma : Penkwa, Pepedom, Odupon, Dukuma. 

 3 Chlorophora excelsa : Odum, Erui, Eluni. 



