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A book called the Forest Journal shall be kept, in which shall be 
recorded all observations and facts required for the preparation of 
working plans ; also records of sales, with prices and names of pur- 
chasers, also a bill book with counterfoil, to be used whenever sales are 
effected, the bill to be issued to the purchaser, the counterfoil to form 
the office copy. 
There shall be a place indicated for storing all timber and forest 
produce intended for sale ; and when logs are received, each shall be 
entered separately in a book of receipts and measured and marked as 
shall be directed by the Crown Surveyor. Scantlings to be registered 
in lots, each piece being marked with the depot-mark, and, when sold, 
with a sale mark ; bamboos and fuel to be entered separately. 
The Governor may also issue licences to private individuals or firms 
to cut and fell timber and other forest produce within such blocks of 
crown-forests as may be determined by the Crown Surveyor ; and all 
applications for such licences shall be subject to the terms and condi- 
tions specified in this ordinance. 
All persons holding such licences shall be bound to pay a royalty of 
such amount as the Governor may from time to time determine upon 
each cubic foot of hewn or squared timber, and upon each lot of 
bamboos or other forest produce ; the amount due in each case to be 
certified upon measurements by the Crown Surveyor or one of his 
assistants. Licences to burn charcoal to be issued separately and 
limited to such trees or cuttings as shall be specified ; a royalty to be 
paid to the conservator of the district in which such forest blocks 
are situated, and by him paid to the Eeceiver General for the 
public use. 
Groote Creek. — As an example of the difficulty which 
will be experienced in reorganizing the Crown-land 
system, from the fact of the uncertainty of the owner- 
ship of considerable tracts, the history of the claim at 
present made by certain private individuals to the 
important tract of forest lying along Groote Creek, on 
the Essequibo River, is instructive. Rather more than 
twenty-five years ago commissioners were appointed to 
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