The Forests of British Guiana. 197 
The term " aboriginal Indian " requires definition, 
and should be stated to mean a person of pure Indian 
blood, one whose parents are both aborigines. Indians 
should not be allowed to cut greenheart at all. 
This would prevent the trade between so-called 
Indians and the wood-cutters which is prohibited 
by the 3rd section of the regulations ; for greenheart is 
at present the only wood the wood-cutters purchase 
from them. In the same section, (section 3) for the 
words — "any one engaged in the business of woodcut- 
ting," I think the following should be substituted : — any 
one holding a woodcutter's licence or licence of occu- 
pancy, excepting, in the case of the person holding such 
licence, the wood shall be required for the erection of 
buildings to be used by him on his grant and not for 
removal. 
When an Indian wishes to cut wood on any 
unoccupied Crown Lands, he should notify his inten- 
tion to do so, in person, to the River Magistrate, the 
District Commissary or some other person who may be 
authorised to receive his notice, and should get per- 
mission to cut such timber, in writing. All timber pur- 
chased from Indians should be paid for in money and 
not in provisions, cloth, or liquor, as is usually done, 
(notwithstanding the prohibition) ; and it should be 
enacted that no person can recover any cost of provi- 
sion, cloth or liquor advanced or paid to an Indian on 
account of timber. 
Any Indian who may not comply with such regu- 
lations as may be enacted, should, for the first offence, 
pay the cost of the proceedings against him, and, for the 
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