AN AUSTRALIAN STUDY OF AMERICAN FORESTRY. 67 
Upon them are found residences, farms, apiaries, schools, churches, stores, 
sawmills, factories, hotels, sanitoriums, summer resaqrts, telephone and 
telegraph lines, roads and railways, dams, reservoirs, and conduits, etc. 
All such occupancies, except where specific provision is made in 
regulations governing grazing, timber sales, water power, &c., are termed 
“special uses” and are authorised under “ Special use Permits ”—which are 
equivalent to our Occupation Permits without their limitation to timber- 
getters. 
No fee is charged in respect to schools, churches, cemeteries, cabins, 
corrals, stock tanks, drift fences, sawmills sawing timber principally from 
the National forests, water supply schemes, logging roads, &c. 
For other uses the rates and conditions-are fixed by Regulation, L. 33 :— 
Kinds. Minimum Rates per Annum. Explanation. 
Agricultural and Cultivation | Is to 12s. per acre. Not | Not to exceed 160 acres to 
less than 8s. 4d. for any one permittee 
any permit 
Apiaries ales ia -. | Minimum £2 2s, and 5d. | 1 to 3 acres. Hives to be 
per hive over 100 counted in April and 
payments due May Ist 
year each, 
Barns, Garages, &c. .. | £1) to 75 upwards .. | 2 acres or less 
Gravel es ae .. | 3d. to 6d.-per cubic yard, 
Not less than 8s. 4d. 
for any permit 
Bay Cutting a -. | Is. to 4s. per acre, Not 
less than 8s. 4d. for 
any permit 
Hotels and Resorts .. | £5 50 £50 and upwards .. | 1 to 10 acres Not to 
exceed 5 acres under 
term permits. & 
Pastures... we .. | 2d. to 4s. per acre. Not | Not over 320 acres to any 
less than 8s. 4d. for one permittee (charge is 
any permit in addition to grazing 
fee; 4 to 5 acres, de- 
pending on local con- 
ditions. 
Residences .. ae -. | £lto £5... oye .. | $to 5 acres 
Sawmills .. os .. | £2 to £40 and upward .. | 1 to 10 acres 
Stores, &c. .. a -. | £2 to £10 and upward .. | } to 5 acres 
Permits may be granted with such conditions as to area, time, charges, 
ete., as may be provided for in the regulations, or as may be deemed necessary 
to protect the National Forest. 
Permits granted by the Forest Supervisor may be revoked by the District 
Forester. Those issued by the District Forester may be revoked by the 
Forester; those granted by the Forester may be revoked by the Minister. 
Appeal lies in the first instance to the District Forester, from his decision. 
to the Forester, and from his decision to the Minister, in all matters covered 
by the Special Use regulations. ; 
All permits are revocable at the discretion of the Forest Department. 
