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6. No saw-pit to be occupied by such new licensee shall be within 200 yards of any saw-pit already occupied by licensed wood cutters, or shall otherwise infringe upon any right formerly granted by the Waste Land Board, and if any disputes as to right to cut timber shall arise between contiguous license holders, such disputes shall be determined and settled by the Ranger.

HAND SAWYERS.

Any person desirous of obtaining a license to saw or split timber on Waste Lands of the Crown, shall make application at the Waste Land Office, and such application shall set forth, as nearly as may be, the exact place for which such license is required, and the applicant shall deposit and pay the sum hereinafter provided, to be the first quarterly payment for his license.

If the Waste Land Board shall think such application proper to be granted, it shall issue a provisional license for such period of the year as may remain, and the fees payable thereon, for each pair of sawyers, or splitters, shall be £3 for the first quarter, or if more than one half of the current quarter shall have expired, then £1 10s. for the remainder of the first quarter; and £2 for every subsequent quarter; such fees to be paid in advance, the first, prior to the issue of the license, and the other on the quarter days—viz., March 31st, June 30th, September 30th, and December 31st; and for each person employed cutting firewood one half of these rates: Provided that actual settlers requiring to split timber, or to cut firewood on the Waste Lands of the Crown, for their own use only, and not for sale, may do so on payment of £2 10s., or £1 respectively per annum as heretofore.

The licensee shall then take the provisional license to the ranger of the district, and within one week thereafter, the ranger shall visit the proposed place, and if he shall see no objection thereto, he shall authorise the licensee to commence sawing, splitting, or cutting; and if it shall appear to the ranger unfit that the applicant should cut timber in the place desired by him, then the applicant may either cut in such other place as the ranger may point out, or he may have the certificate cancelled, and shall receive back the deposit paid by him, less £1.

GENERAL REGULATIONS.

1. Every person cutting or sawing timber shall completely clear away, and burn, or otherwise remove, all the tops and branches of all felled trees, and all material liable to catch fire, or otherwise to do injury to the forest.

No person to cut down or otherwise injure, any trees not required by him for the purpose of his business, and if it shall appear to the ranger that either of these regulations has been infringed, he shall immediately give notice of the same at the office of the Waste Land Board, and shall temporarily suspend the license of the party offending, and if the Chief Commissioner shall judge that such infringement has been wilful, then the license shall be cancelled.

Any person who shall cut timber without a license, or before he has been duly authorised by a ranger, or who shall continue to saw or cut timber after any quarterly payment shall be due, and not paid, or after the ranger, by reason of any alleged breach of these regulations, shall have given him notice to discontinue cutting, shall be treated as an unlicensed trespasser, and shall be liable to a penalty of £1 per week, for every week, or part of a week, during which he shall continue such unauthorised cutting. No logs or unwrought timber are to be drawn out of the bush, or disposed of, without a special license for the purpose.

SAW MILLS.

Exclusive rights to cut timber on Waste Lands will be granted on the following terms:—

1. No portion of bush lands exceeding 300 acres shall be granted for the erection of any one sawmill.

2. A minimum payment shall be made by instalments, in the way of rent, amounting in the whole to at least £1 per acre for all bush land, over which exclusive rights of cutting shall be granted.

3. Within six months after the granting of any exclusive license, machinery and plant, to the value of £2 per acre, to be properly erected to the satisfaction of the ranger; such plant and machinery not to be taken down or removed until a certificate shall have been obtained from the ranger or other person duly appointed in that behalf, that all the conditions of these regulations have been complied with.