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8855 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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fore production as aforesaid or contrary to the conditions thereof; or if any licensed person shall fell or destroy any trees on such land for any purpose whatsoever before producing his mity therewith, license to the headman to whom the same is addressed, and furnishing him with a list of the names of every person whom he intends employing to fell or remove the same; or shall employ any person for any such purpose whose name is not mentioned in such list, except when such list is dispensed with under section six; or shall fell any trees on land belonging to the Crown for any purpose whatsoever at any place other than that speci- fied in his license, or any other description or larger number of trees thair such as shall be therein specified; or shall fell or remove for any purpose whatsoever the trees or timber mentioned in such license after the time specified therein or extended as aforesaid shall have expired or before it shall have commenced; or shall remove any such timber without giving to the said headman or other person appointed in that behalf by the Government Agent the notice of his intention to remove the same herein-before required to be given, or without having obtained a permit for its removal from the said headman, or other person so appointed, except when such notice or permit is dispensed with under section seven; or shall, when engaged in the removal of any such trees or timber, refuse or neglect to produce such permit when thereunto required by any Justice of the Peace, headman, or police officer of the district or place where such removal is being effected, or by any person appointed by the Governor to be a forester or deputy forester; or shall remove any timber felled on Crown land without the same having been stamped or marked as required by section seven; or if any person shall have in his possession any trees or timber felled on or removed from any Crown land, knowing that the same have or has been felled or removed contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance, every such person shall in any of such cases be guilty of an offence, and such offence shall be punishable by such fine or imprisonment, with or without hard labour, as the court before which the conviction shall be obtained shall award. And the court before which such offence is tried shall, if the trees or timber have been seized and it is found by the court that the same have or has been unlawfully felled or removed, confiscate the same: Provided that no person shall for any offence under this section be sentenced to a higher fine than five hundred rupees or to imprisonment for a longer term than six calendar months.
Private timber
not to be re-
moved without
a permit.
Ordinance not to extend to timber cut for
of
9. It shall not be lawful for any person to remove from his own land or from the land any other private person any timber that may have been felled thereon without having obtained a permit authorising such removal; such permit shall accompany the timber so removed, and shall be as near as is material in the form in the schedule hereunto annexed, marked D. Such permit shall be granted by the Government Agent or by some person appointed by the Government Agent in that behalf, or by some headman of the district or place where such land is situated, on the joint application of the owner of the timber and the owner or occupier of the land from which the same is to be removed or his duly authorised agent, or in case such timber belongs to the owner or occupier of such land, then on the application of such owner or occupier. And if any person shall, contrary to the provisions of this section, remove from his own land or from the land of any other private person any timber felled thereon without having obtained a permit for such removal, or after the time therein specified shall have expired, or shall, when engaged in the removal of any such timber, refuse or neglect to produce such permit when thereunto required by any justice of the peace, headman, or police officer of the district or place where such removal is being effected, or by any person appointed by the Governor to be a forester or deputy forester, he shall be guilty of an offence, and such offence shall be punishable by such fine or imprisonment, with or without hard labour, as the court before which the conviction shall be obtained shall award, and the court before which such offence is tried shall, if the timber has been seized as herein-after provided and it is found that the same has been unlawfully removed, confiscate the same: Provided that no person shall, for any offence under this section, be sentenced to a higher fine than five hundred rupees, or to imprisonment for a longer term than six calendar months: Provided also that it shall be lawful for the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, by proclamation to be by him from time to time for that purpose issued and published in thic "Government Gazette," to exempt any particular district to be mentioned in such proclamation from the operation of this section, and any such proclamation with the like advice to revoke, alter, or amend.
17. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall extend or apply, or be deemed or taken to extend or apply, to any trees or timber bona fide cut for the purpose of making making agri- ploughs or other agricultural implements in common use in this Island: Provided, however, that it shall be lawful for the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, by any proclamation to be by him from time to time issued and published in
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reserve forest
the Government Gazette," to set apart and define any tract or tracts of Crown land, Power of as reserved forest land, within the limits of which no wood of any description whatever Governor to shall be cut or removed for any purpose whatsoever; and also in like manner to set land. apart and define any tract or tracts of Crown land within the limits of which no wood mentioned in such proclamation shall be cut or removed for the purpose of making ploughs or other agricultural instruments aforesaid, and any such proclamation to revoke, alter, or amend.
SCHEDULES.
C.
PERMIT to remove TIMBER grown on CROWN LAND.
in the district of •
has permission to remove from the
the following tember felled'
No of License. C. D., of
in the district of Crown Forest land at by him under the above License :-
(Here insert a description of the timber proposed to be removed.)
in the district of this
to
Dated at
day of
D.
و
+
18
(Signed)
A. B.
PERMIT to remove TIMBER from PRIVATE LAND.
in the district of
has permission to remove from the (or, as the case may be), the following timber :- (Here insert the number and description of trees in words at length.)
in the district of
days from the date hereof. 18
E. F., of garden called
to
Dated at
this
within
day of
(Signed)
A. B.
EXTRACTS of MAURITIUS ORDINANCE, No. 12 of 1872.
or destroying
trees on Crown
27. Any person felling, cutting, or destroying, or mutilating any tree upon or taking Persons cutting away any tree from any Crown land, without a written permission from the Surveyor- General or issued under his authority, shall incur a fine not exceeding 101., and in case lands, how of any second or subsequent offence a fine of not less than 10. and not exceeding 50%., punished. or imprisonment not exceeding three months, and shall further pay a sum equal in amount to the value of the tree or trees cut by him or caused to be cut.
sell or let
28. It shall be lawful for the Governor to sell or let any portion of the Crown lands Power of not forming part of the sea-shore reserves, provided that in the case of a lease the other Governor to conditions of which will allow the lessee to cut down wood, there shall always be a condi- Crown lands tion that such lessee shall replant with trees the land so cleared by him, and in default under what thereof, forfeit his lease together with the buildings and plantations existing upon the land leased as aforesaid, and that there shall also be a condition, that if there be no buildings or plantations, the lessee shall pay damages, the amount of which shall be fixed beforehand in the deed of lease.
conditions.
29. There shall be appointed an officer to be nained the Warden of Woods and Appointment Forests, and who, under the control of the Surveyor-General, shall have charge of the of Warden of Crown lands and reserves, and whose duty it shall be to plant or replant the said lands Forests. and reserves, and superintend and preserve the said plantations.
Woods
table of the
30. The Warden of Woods and Forests shall every year prepare, to be laid before the Estimates to Council of Government at the same time as the annual estimates are laid on the table, be laid on the an account of the sums by him spent for the planting and replanting of trees, and a Council of statement of the work done, together with an estimate of the sums intended to be spent Government. during the following year on account of the planting and replanting of trees, and also an approximate statement of the works intended to be carried on under this Ordinance.
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