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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 Ashanti, unless and until he shall have 

 registered a property mark at the office of the Conservator of Forests, 

 Coomassie. 



6. Apphcations 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. 



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 office and called " The Register of Property 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 number"). 



(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 one upwards, 

 the butt log alwaj's 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) four logs 

 and which is situate in an area of which the locality mark 



is L5 he must :- 



mark the stump thus A 27 



27.1 



mark the butt log thus L5 



