                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              WHEREAS by notice issued under the 
                                              provisions of subsection (1) of 
                                              section 5 of the Forest Ordinance 
                                              and published in the Gazette No. 
                                              94 dated 26th November 1955 the 
                                              Governor stated his intention of 
                                              constituting as a Forest Reserve 
                                              the area of land the situation and 
                                              limits of which were specified in 
                                              the said notice, and by the same 
                                              notice appointed PETER MYLES RILEY 
                                              ESQ. hereinafter referred to as 
                                              &#8220;the Reserve Settlement 
                                              Commissioner&#8221; to be Reserve 
                                              Settlement Commissioner:</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              AND WHEREAS in pursuance of the 
                                              duties imposed upon and powers 
                                              vested in him by section 9 of the 
                                              Ordinance the Reserve Settlement 
                                              Commissioner proceeded to hold an 
                                              enquiry into the limits of the 
                                              aforesaid area of land and into 
                                              the existence, nature and extent 
                                              of rights affecting the land or 
                                              over the land which have been 
                                              claimed, alleged to exist, or 
                                              brought to his notice:</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              AND WHEREAS the Reserve Settlement 
                                              Commissioner has completed his 
                                              enquiry and has delivered his 
                                              judgment in accordance with 
                                              section 15 of the Ordinance:</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              AND WHEREAS the Reserve Settlement 
                                              Commissioner in his said judgment 
                                              inter alia described the limits 
                                              set out in the first schedule 
                                              hereto, of an area of land for 
                                              reservation as a forest reserve:</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              CAP. 157.</span></p>

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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              NOW THEREFORE in exercise of the 
                                              powers conferred upon the 
                                              Governor-General by section 17 of 
                                              the Forests Ordinance the 
                                              following order is hereby made:&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Order 1&#8212;Title.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">

                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              This Order may be cited as the 
                                              Forests (Bediako Forest Reserve) 
                                              Order 1958.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Order 2&#8212;First Schedule.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">

                                              The area of land the situation and 
                                              limits of which are specified in 
                                              the First schedule to this order 
                                              is hereby constituted a Forest 
                                              Reserve under the name of the 
                                              Bediako Forest Reserve.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Order 3&#8212;Second, Third and Fourth 
                                              Schedule.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              The Bediako Forest Reserve is 
                                              hereby declared to be affected by 
                                              the rights particularised in the 
                                              Second, Third and Fourth Schedules 
                                              to this Order.</span></p>

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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              SCHEDULES</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              FIRST SCHEDULE</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">

                                              DESCRIPTION OF THE AREA OF THE 
                                              BEDIAKO FOREST RESERVE</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              All that area of land lying within 
                                              the boundary following, that is to 
                                              say a boundary commencing at B.P. 
                                              31 of the Nsuensa Forest Reserve 
                                              thence following the Eastern 
                                              boundary of that Reserve in a 
                                              general Southerly direction for a 
                                              distance of 495 chains 
                                              approximately through B.P. 32, 33, 
                                              etc. to Forest Reserve B.P. 52 
                                              which lies on the&nbsp; junction of the 
                                              boundary with the Aiyaola Forest 
                                              Reserve, thence following the 
                                              Western boundary of the Aiyaola 
                                              Forest Reserve, in a general 
                                              Northerly and Westerly direction 
                                              for 435 chains approximately 
                                              through G.C.S.E.P. 1512 1513 etc. 
                                              to 1533 etc. to Nsuensa Forest 
                                              Reserve B.P. 31 the point of 
                                              commencement.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              All bearings are approximate and 
                                              refer to True North.</span></p>

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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              All distances are more or less.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              The letters B.P. and G.C.S.E.P. 
                                              followed by a number refer to a 
                                              &#8220;Boundary Pillar&#8221; or Gold Coast 
                                              Survey Eastern Province pillar 
                                              bearing that number.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              SECOND SCHEDULE</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              COMMUNAL RIGHTS</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>

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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">

                                              Nature of Right&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Extent of 
                                              Right&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Persons permitted 
                                              to Exercise Right&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
                                              </p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              1. Hunting</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              2. Fishing</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">

                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              3. Collection of Snails, Honey, 
                                              and sponges.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              4. Collection of deadfall for 
                                              firewood.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              5. Building Poles for personal 
                                              use, Chew Sticks and Tie Tie.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              6. Collection of Stone, and Sand 
                                              for building purposes.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              7. Timber felling and Minerals</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              8. Access to and maintenance of 
                                              existing paths.&nbsp; Unrestricted but 
                                              no steel traps to be used.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Unrestricted but no streams to be 
                                              dammed.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">

                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Unrestricted.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              For personal use only.&nbsp; 
                                              Unrestricted.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              For personal use on Free Permit.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Unrestricted.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Subject to restriction based on 
                                              proper Forest Management.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">

                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Unrestricted.&nbsp; The subjects of the 
                                              Akokoaso Stool.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              do.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              do.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              do.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              do.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">

                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              do.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">

                                              do.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              do.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              THIRD SCHEDULE</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Unrestricted access to and 
                                              cultivation of the demarcated 
                                              farms shown below in favour of the 
                                              persons named in Column 3.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Farm No.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Area&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Right 
                                              Holder&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 17 Acres&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nana 
                                              Bediako</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Opanin Kweku Poku</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Kofi Fofi.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">

                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 6 Acres&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              Opanin Kweku Poku, Kwesie Asare.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.75 Acres&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Opanin 
                                              Kweku Poku.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              FOURTH SCHEDULE</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              STOOL RIGHTS</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Right Holder&nbsp;&nbsp; Extent of 
                                              Right&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nature of 
                                              Right&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              The Akokoaso Stool The Bediako 
                                              Reserve&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; All Communal 
                                              Rights as detailed in Second 
                                              Schedule.</span></p>

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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              All residual rights of ownership 
                                              on land within the Reserve 
                                              together with the natural products 
                                              and minerals therein are vested in 
                                              the Akokoaso Stool subject to 
                                              obligations to comply with Native 
                                              Customary Laws and the provisions 
                                              of any Ordinance and directions 
                                              given by the Forestry Department 
                                              for the management of the Reserve 
                                              in accordance with the provisions 
                                              of section 18 of the Forests 
                                              Ordinance Cap. 157.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              The Akokoaso Stool do.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Dated at Accra this 17th day of 
                                              March, 1958.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              By the Governor-General&#8217;s Command.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              FRANCIS Y. ASARE</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Minister of Agriculture.</span></p>