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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

satisfaction of the Board for the faithful performance
of any duty, and the expense of preparing such security
shall be borne by the person providing the same.

ELECTION OF CHAIRMAN.

47. Annually at the last meeting in the month of
    June, members shall be nominated for election to
    the office of Chairman, and at the next ordinary
    meeting (the names of the members nominated having
    been inserted in the Circulars convening such meet-
    ing) a Chairman shall be elected out of the members
    so nominated, and such Chairman shall preside at all
    meetings, but in the event of his absence a member
    shall be chosen by the meeting to act as Chairman
    for such meeting; and the Chairman, or the member
    acting as Chairman, shall, in case of an equality
    of votes at any meeting, in addition to his own
    vote have a second or casting vote. If no Chair-
    man is elected, or if the office become vacant by
    death, resignation, or from any other cause, then
    the members, after due notice having been given by
    the Secretary, shall, at a meeting called for that
    purpose, elect one out of their own number to fill up
    such vacancy, and the person so elected shall be the
    Chairman until the next following annual election
    shall take place.

COMMON SEAL.

48. The common seal of the Board shall not be
    affixed to any document unless the Chairman and
    the Treasurer, or the Chairman and two members of
    the Board, be present and attest the same.

BY-LAWS.

49. All by-laws to be made by the Board in terms
    of "The Napier Harbour Board Act, 1875," shall be
    laid before a meeting of the Board for their con-
    sideration, and, after having been so considered, if
    approved of, shall be printed and adopted at the
    next ordinary meeting, and when so adopted shall
    be submitted to the Governor, and upon his approval
    and publication in the Government Gazette shall
    become law.

Adopted by the Napier Harbour Board, at their
meeting held on Tuesday, the fifteenth day of
February, 1876.
J. D. ORMOND,
Chairman.

Timber Regulations, Southland, Otago.

Secretary for Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 25th February, 1876.

THE following By-laws, passed by the Southland
Waste Lands Board, are published in accord-
ance with the provisions of "The Southland Waste
Lands Amendment Act, 1867."
H. A. ATKINSON.

TIMBER REGULATIONS, SOUTHLAND, OTAGO.
Passed by the Waste Lands Board on 3rd February, 1876,
in accordance with the provisions of "Southland Waste Lands
Amendment Acts, 1867 and 1875."

HAND SAWYERS, WOOD CUTTERS, ETC.

1. Applications for timber licenses shall be made
   at the Land Office, Invercargill.

2. Each application shall state the particular pur-
   pose for which the license is required, and the reserve
   in which the timber is to be cut, and on its being
   granted by the Waste Lands Board the applicant
   shall immediately pay the prescribed fees to the
   Receiver of Land Revenue, and obtain a license.

3. The area granted by such license shall be con-
   fined to the bush named in the application, the
   locality and extent being fixed by the Board, and
   shall extend only to lands of the Crown which have
   been or hereafter may be appropriated for "Timber
   Reserves," in accordance with the provisions of "The
   Southland Waste Lands Act 1865 Amendment Acts,
   1867 and 1875;" any licensed person cutting timber
   beyond the limit of his license will be considered
   as unlicensed, and prosecuted accordingly.

4. A fee of five pounds will be charged for a
   license for twelve months for each hand sawyer,
   whether felling, cutting, sawing, or drawing timber
   for sale; and no license shall be granted for a
   shorter term than six months. The annual licenses
   to date from and after the 1st of January, and the
   half-yearly ones from and after the 1st of July in
   each year-each terminating on the 31st of Decem-
   ber same year. In no case shall the charge be less
   than for half a year.

5. An annual fee of two pounds shall be paid by
   any settler cutting firewood for domestic use but
   not for sale.

6. Licenses may be issued to settlers and others
   cutting firewood for sale, at 20s. per twenty cords.

7. Licenses may be issued for splitting timber for
   fencing purposes, for private use or for sale, at 20s.
   per 500 pieces.

8. No tree is to be cut or log or wrought timber
   drawn out of the bush or disposed of without a
   special license for the purpose, the fee under such
   special license being five shillings each log or tree of
   one foot and upwards, and two shillings and sixpence
   for each tree below one foot in diameter, nor shall
   such be removed before being branded by the In-
   spector of Forests.

9. Every holder of a license to cut timber must
   exhibit such license to the officer appointed in that
   behalf whenever he may be called on to do so, or to any
   constable in the district; and on his refusal will be
   considered as unlicensed, and prosecuted accordingly.

10. The Commissioner of Crown Lands may cause
    to be seized all timber cut on Crown lands, wherever
    found, which he may have cause to believe has been
    cut by an unlicensed person; but in case a right to
    such timber shall be asserted within fourteen days
    after the notice hereafter mentioned, and shall be
    established to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands
    Board, it shall be restored to the claimant.

11. All timber, when seized, shall be marked with
    the broad arrow, and after due notice of the seizure
    thereof in writing, to be posted up in the Land
    Office, or at the Police Station in the district where
    such seizure was made, shall, in case no claimant shall
    appear and establish his claim within fourteen days
    therefrom, be sold in such manner and subject to snch
    conditions as the Waste Lands Board may direct.

12. All timber cut under a yearly or half-yearly
    license must be removed within six weeks after the
    expiration of the license, and that cut under firewood,
    fencing, or special licenses within three months after
    date of licenses, otherwise it may be declared forfeited,
    seized, and sold on behalf of the Crown.

13. The proceeds of the sale of timber so seized
    are to be accounted for and paid over to the Receiver
    of Land Revenue.

14. If any person duly licensed shall have estab-
    lished a saw-pit for the purpose of sawing timber, no
    other person shall cut timber within one hundred
    yards of such pit without consent of the person first
    occupying such saw-pit: Provided that if the person
    establishing such pit shall not use the same, and
    shall not cut timber within such distance as aforesaid
    from the pit for twenty-eight consecutive days, it
    shall be lawful for any other holder of a license to
    enter thereupon, and to cut timber as though such
    pit had not been established; or if such person
    should only cut timber to such extent within the
    twenty-eight days as would appear to the Board to
    be done merely for the purpose of excluding others,
    and not utilizing the forest, the Board may in such
    case cancel the license.