Section 45. Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto proved, and may be collected accordingly

CHAPTER IX. OF THE COLLECTION OF DRIFT AND STRANDED TIMBER. 45. Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto proved, and may be collected accordingly. 46. Notice to claimants of drift-timber. CHAPTER IX. OF THE COLLECTION OF DRIFT AND STRANDED TIMBER. 45. All timber found adrift, beached, stranded or sunk; all wood or timber bearing marks which have not been registered under section forty-one, or on which the marks have been obliterated, altered or defaced by fire or otherwise, and, in such areas as the Local Government directs, all unmarked wood and timber, shall be deemed to be the property of Government unless and until any person establishes his right and title thereto, as provided in this chapter. Such timber may be collected by any Forest-officer or other person entitled to collect the same by virtue of any rule made under section fifty-one, and may be brought to such depôts as the Forest-officer may from time to time notify as depôts for the reception of drift-timber. The Local Government may, by notification in the local official Gazette, exempt any class of timber from the provisions of this section, and withdraw such exemption.