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one foot iu height will by no means be eousidered valueless. Where trees 

 stand in dense clumps this valuation, of course, will be modified. 

 In the disposal of timber the following rules will govern : 

 1. Any one wishing to purchase or obtain timber will make formal 

 application on the printed form provided for this purpose and furnished 

 on request, and no person shall be allowed to cut timber or begin any 

 operation of exploitation until he shall have received a written permit 

 to do so. To cut timber without first obtaining this permit is trespass, 

 and the sending in of an application to secure a shadow of right in the 

 matter will not in anywise alter the case. 



'2. The application may be sent direct to the ^A'arden or it may be 

 transmitted through the Ranger or Forester. 



3. The application will be reported upon by the Forest Officer in the 

 manner prescribed below, and this report, together with the recom- 

 mendations of the AVarden, will be submitted to the Forestry Commis- 

 sion. 



4. If the application shall be approved by the Forestry Commission, 

 a minimum price shall be fixed, the timiber ad\ertised in a local paper and 

 sold at public auction by the Forest Otficer designated by the Forestry 

 Commission at the County Seat of the (!ounty in which the timber, or 

 the greater part of the timber sold, shall be located. 



In cases where the stumpage value of the timber shall be 50 dollars 

 or less the advertisement may be omitted. 



5. A contract will then be entered into between the purchaser and 

 the Forest Commission, duplicate copies being signed by both parties, 

 and the receipt of this properly signed contract will serve the purchaser 

 as permit to begin operations. In some cases, a bond will be required 

 for the proper fulfillment of this contract. 



6. The cutting will be watched over by the Forest Officer, who will 

 also do the scaling in the manner agreed to in the application and con- 

 tract. 



7. Generally the scaling and measuring will be done according ta 

 local practice. Logs will be scaled by one of the common scale rules; 

 poles, ties, posts, etc., will be sold by number and grade; shingle timber, 

 pulp wood and fuel will be sold by the cord. 



8. All material in e^ ery case must be measured and stamped or marked 

 with "State" stamp before it can be removed. Forms Xo. 2 and 3 for 

 application and contract found in appendix will illustrate this matter 

 more fully. 



0. In cases where the total stumpage value of the timber shall be 50 

 dollars or less, the manner of sale may be simplified, and permit to cut 

 this amount of timber may be obtained from the AVarden of Forest Re- 

 serves direct. 



10. In cases where the dead and down material shall appear to be a 

 menace to the safety of the Reserve and where emergency conditions shall 

 exist, the Warden is authorized to grant a permit for a few loads of such 

 material to any one person free of charge, the removal of the material, 

 in such cases, being believed to be of greater value to the safety of the 

 growing forest cover than the dead material itself. 



11. Applications for timber will generally be attended to in the order 

 in which they shall be received, but exception to this rule will be made 

 whenever economy and efliciency of the service require such exception. 



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