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6. A'o trees containing merchantable timber shall be left lodged in the 



woods. 



7. No trees shall be cut more than 6 inches above the swelling of the roots, 



unless a satisfactory reason is given. 



8. All merchantable timber in the tree which is above the established 



diameter limit at the small end shall be utilized. If such timber is 

 left, through carelessness or purposely, it shall be scaled double and 

 charged at the stumpage rate paid for the timber. 



9. No Spruce shall be used for bridges, corduroy, skids, slides, or for 



building camps or dams, unless the scarcity of less valuable timber 

 makes its use absolutely necessary. Any timber unnecessarily so 

 used shall be scaled double and charged at the stumpage rate. 



10. All tops shall be sufficiently lopped to insure their being flattened to 



the ground by an ordinary winter's snow, the lopping to be subject 

 to the approval of the Inspector in charge. 



11. All merchantable timber used for building skidways shall be cut into 



logs and hauled out. 



12. Timber may be used for booms, but will be scaled and charged at the 



regular stumpage rates. Hemlock timber, if used for building pur- 

 poses, shall be charged at the same rate as Spruce. 



13. Contractors and lumbermen shall be careful not to do any unnecessary 



damage to young growth in lumbering. 



14. The violation of any of these rules, if persisted in, shall be deemed a 



sufficient cause for annulling the contract. 



Inspection. 



The work of the Inspector is of the greatest importance. Upon his 

 capacity and judgment depends largely the proper lumbering of Township 

 40, or any other tract. The Inspector should combine all the qualities of a 

 first-class lumberman and a competent and impartial scaler, and should 

 have a fair knowledge of practical forestry, besides the necessary energv to 

 insure a careful and thorough inspection of all portions of the tract where 

 lumbering is going on, enforcing the rules as thoroughly in out-of-the-way 

 places as in those open to public scrutiny. He should have full control of 

 the scalers and markers. 



Any division of authority in the carrying out of the rules should be 

 carefully avoided. The decision of the Inspector should be final upon all 

 matters connected with the lumberins:. 



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