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13- AH offences under this Ordinance shall be dealt with summarily 

 and may be heard before a District Commissioner. 



Schedule I. 

 Rivers to which this Ordinance appUes : — 

 The Volta and its tributaries the White Volta and the Black Volta. 



EXPORT DUTY ON TIMBER. 



GOLD COAST COLONY. 



No. 7 OF 1921. 



I assent 



F. G. GUGGISBERG, 



Governoy. 



4th February, 1921. 

 An Ordinance to raise export duties on Timber. 



[4th February, 1921. 

 Whereas it is desired to raise further revenue in the Colony and to that 

 end to impose a duty on timber exported from the Colony : 

 Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of the Gold Coast Colony, 

 with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as 

 follows : — 



1. This Ordinance may be cited as " The Timber Export Duty 

 Ordinance, 1921." 



2. In this Ordinance the term " exporter " shall include any owner 

 or other person for the time being possessed of, or beneficially interested 

 in, any timber from the time the same is placed in the sea or in any 

 boat, canoe or other craft whatsoever for the purpose of being exported 

 until such timber shall be conveyed out of the territorial waters of 

 the Colony. 



3. There shall be raised, levied, collected and paid unto His 

 Majesty for the Government of the Gold Coast Colony, an export 

 duty at the rate of two pence per cubic foot or part thereof on all timber 

 exported from the Colony. 



4. No person shall export any timber or, for the purpose of ex- 

 portation, cause any timber to be placed in the sea or in any boat, 

 canoe or other craft whatsoever or to be carried to any ship or to be 

 shipped or transhipped unless and until such timber shall have been 

 passed by an officer of the Forest Department as having been lawfully 

 cut and shall have been marked as so passed by such officer in the 

 manner prescribed by rules under this Ordinance and such person 

 shall have passed in respect thereof an export entry in the form given 

 in the Schedule hereto and shall have paid the export duty thereon. 



7A 



Short title. 



Definition of 

 ''Exporter." 



Export duty 

 levied on 

 timber ex- 

 ported. 



Timber to 

 be marked, 

 duty to be 

 paid and 

 export entry 



before ship- 

 ment. 



