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Pown to make rules to regulate trade and transit of timber and other forest produce.-The Government may make 1 ules to regulate the transit of all timber or of certam classes of timber or forest produce withm the hmits of taluks in which Reserved Forests are situate or m taluks adJoming Reserved Forests, as may appear to be necessary. Such rules may (among other matters) :- (a) prescnbe the routes by wh1ch alone timber may be imported jnto and exported from the State ; (b) prohibit the import or export or moving within defined local hmits of t1mber or forest produce \1 uhout a pass from the landholders from \vhose land It was b10ught, or from an officer duly authonsed to issue the same, or otherwise than in accordance with the conditions of such pass; (c) prescribe the form of such passes and provide for their issue, product on and return ; (d) prov1de for the stoppage, reporting, examination and marking of timber and other forest produce in transit within defined local hmits or at stat10ns established as hereinafter provided ; (e) establish, or authonse the Chief Conservator of Forests 0to establish, stations to which such timber or forest produce shall be taken by those 111 chaige of it for examination or marking; and the cond1tions under which such timber or forest produce shall be brought to, stored at and removed from such stations ; (f) provide for the management and control of such stations, and for regulatir.g appointment and duties of persons employed thereat; (g) authorise the transport of timber or forest produce, the pro- perty of Government, across any land and provide for the payment of compensation for any damage done by the transport of such tlffiber or forest produce ; (h) prohibit the closing up or obstructing of the channel or banks of any river used for the transit of timber or other forest produce and the throwing of grass, brushwood, branches and leaves into any such 11ver, or any act which may cause such river to be closed or obstructed ; (t) provide for the prevention and removal of any obstruction of the channel or banks of any such nver, and for recovering the cost of such preventiOn or removal from the person, or by the sale of any timber, causing such obstruction ; (J) provide for the protection of bridges, locks or other public works, by regulating the floating of timber, and the storing of timber on 1 iver banks and by authoriSing the seizure of timber floated or stored in contravention of such rules, or by whtch any damage to such works may have been caused, and the detention and disposal of such timber until compensation has been made for the damage done ; (k) regulate the use of property marks for timber and provide for the registratiOn of such marks ; declare the circumstance in which the registratiOn of any property marks may be refused or cancelled, prescribe • • 33 the tune for which such registration shall hold good : limit the number of such marks that may be regtstered by any one per~on; and provtdc for the levy of fees for such registratiOn ; and (l) provide generally for the protection of the revenue from forests. Explanatton.-For the purpose of thts section timber or forest pro· duce found on, or on the margin of any public road whether loaded m carts or other vehicles or not and timber found m any nver or stream whether tied into rafts or not, shall be presumed unttl the contrary ts proved to be timber or forest produce m transtt.