50. Every such company may demand from the owner of any timber intended to be passed through any portion of the works of the company, or from the person in charge of the same, a written statement of the quantity of each kind of timber and of the destination of the same, and of the sections of the works through which it is intended to pass.
If no such written statement be given when required, or a false statement be given, the whole of such timber, or such part of it as has been omitted by a false statement, shall be liable to double toll.
R. S. 1964, c. 96, s. 50.