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5- When any cocoa farm is exhausted the owner thereof shall grub 

 up by the roots all cocoa trees and burn them on the area, taking care 

 that the large forest trees left on the land are not injured during the 

 process of burning. He shall also, for the period of two years after- 

 wards, weed out the inferior species of forest growth which spring up 

 on such area, and if there are no large forest trees of the kinds named 

 in Bye-law 2 on the land, shall plant a number of any of the trees named 

 in Bye-law 2. 



6. No person shall make a clearing for a farm or fell any tree what- 

 soever on the following areas which are hereby declared to be Stool 

 Forest Reserves : — 



Provided that nothing herein shall prevent the felling of timber in 

 a Stool Forest Reserve in accordance with a working plan approved 

 by the Forest Officers of the Government. 



7. Any person contravening any of the provisions of these Bye-laws 

 shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding £^, and in the 

 cases where timber of any of the kinds mentioned in Bye-laws 2 and 3 

 is felled without due consent having been obtained, or land cleared on 

 " Stool Forest Reserves," the offender shall further forfeit the right 

 to the use of the timber felled or the land cleared. 



7 (bis.) Any member of the Forestry Department may with or with- 

 out warrant or other legal process arrest and detain any person whom he 

 finds or suspects of contravening any of the provisions of these Bye laws 

 in which case he shall immediately convey such person to the Chief 

 of the Stool within whose jurisdiction such contravention took place. 



ASHANTI ADMINISTRATION. 



Ordinance No. i of 1902. 

 An Ordinance to Provide for the Administration of the Govern- 



■ ment of Ashanti. 

 I. Preliminary. 

 I. This Ordinance may be cited as " The Ashanti Administration 

 Ordinance, 1902." 



30. It shall be lawful for the Chief Commissioner to make, amend 

 and revoke rules with respect to : — 



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(9) The conservation of forests and the collection of forest products. 



Any such rules and any amendments or revocations thereof shall 

 be subject to the approval of the Governor, who, before approving, 

 may in his discretion amend them. 



To the breach of any such rules may be attached a penalty of a. 

 fine not exceeding £25 or of imprisonment with or without hard labour 

 for any term not exceeding three months. 



