Section 1. The Local Government may from time to time make rules to regulate the following matters (namely):

51. The Local Government may from time to time make rules to regulate the following matters (namely):— (a) the salving, collection and disposal of all timber mentioned in section forty-five; (b) the use and registration of boats used in salving and collecting timber; (c) the amounts to be paid for salving, collecting, moving, storing and disposing of such timber; (d) the use and registration of hammers and other instruments to be used for marking such timber. The Local Government may from time to time prescribe, as penalties for the infringement of any rules made under this section, imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or both. --- CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY. 1. This Act may be called "The Indian Forest Short title, Act, 1878:" It shall come into force at once in the territories respectively administered by the Governor of Bombay in Council, the Lieutenant-Governors of the Lower Provinces, the North-Western Provinces and the Panjáb (except the District of Hazára), and the Chief Commissioners of Oudh, the Central Provinces and Assam. And any other Local Government may from time to time, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, extend, by notification in the local official Gazette, this Act to all or any of the territories for the time being under its administration. On and from the date on which this Act comes into force in any of the said territories, the enactments mentioned in the schedule hereto annexed shall be repealed in such territories. But all rules made under or validated by any of the said enactments and in force at the date of such repeal shall, so far as they 56 Forests. [ ACT VII they are consistent with this Act, be deemed to have been made and published hereunder. Interpretation-clause.