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shingles, and palings, after valuation and payment according to
the schedule. Licenses to settlers entitled to free firewood shall be
issued on application; but such license shall not entitle the settler
to cut timber or firewood for sale, or for any other purpose than
for fuel for himself and household. Only one license shall be held
by any settler at the same time.

Licenses for charcoal, potash, tar, pitch, &c.

71. Licenses may be granted by the Commissioner, on payment
    of fees to be fixed by him, to cut wood to burn for charcoal, or the
    extraction of potash, tar, pitch, or other secondary products; but
    the licensee shall observe such precautions as may be deemed neces-
    sary to prevent injury from fire, and he will be held responsible for
    any injury done to any forest by improper or negligent operations;
    and nothing herein shall entitle him to carry on any operations in
    any forest during the periods within which such forest is closed pur-
    suant to these regulations. No person may hold more than one
    license at the same time, either directly or indirectly.

Licenses to peel bark.

72. Licenses to peel bark may be granted at the discretion of
    the Minister, but only under such terms and conditions as he may
    deem proper. No person may hold more than one license at the
    same time, either directly or indirectly.

Sleeper-cutting licenses.

73. Licenses to cut railway-sleepers for use on New Zealand
    railways may be issued by the Commissioner on payment of a fee of
    5s. per annum, payable in advance. Such license shall entitle the
    person named therein to split, cut, or hew railway-sleepers on the
    land mentioned and described therein; but such license shall not
    entitle the holder thereof to cut, split, or hew any timber included
    in any sawmill license, or in any license where the timber has been
    sold by appraisement at auction or otherwise, or on any land held
    under lease or license from the Crown. The license shall state the
    class or classes of timber to which it applies, and it shall expire
    at the period of twelve months from the date thereof.

74. Every holder of such a license shall pay a royalty of 3d. for
    every railway-sleeper so cut, split, or hewn, whether such sleepers
    are accepted by the Railway Department or not. Such royalty shall
    be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue before the sleepers are
    delivered to the Railway Department, and that Department shall
    require proof that the royalty has been paid before accepting the
    sleepers, or, failing such proof, shall deduct from the amount other-
    wise payable for the sleepers the royalty herein provided for, and
    shall pay the same to the Public Account.

75. If the holder of a special license hereunder shall cut, split,
    or hew timber for any other purpose than for railway-sleepers for
    New Zealand railways, or shall use any other timber than is stated
    in such license, or shall attempt to sell and deliver sleepers to the
    Railway Department without having first paid the royalty thereon
    as herein provided, or shall wantonly damage or destroy any bush,
    timber, or trees other than as may be necessary in felling trees for
    railway-sleepers, or shall wastefully use any trees so felled so that
    as many sleepers as possible are not obtained therefrom; or if
    any person not having a license as herein provided shall cut, split,
    or hew railway-sleepers on any land to which this regulation ap-