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and thereafter such forest reserves shall in or upon the public forests or forest 



not be entered, sold, or otherwise dis- reserves, or territory adjacent thereto, 



posed of, but shall remain as such for of any person who is committing' or at- 



forest uses. tempting to commit any violation of 



"Sec. 5. The public forests and forest this act or the regulations established 

 reserves and the timber, firewood, gums, thereunder, and it shall be the duties 

 and other products thereof, shall not be of governors of provinces, the Philip- 

 sold, entered, leased, or otherwise dis- pine Constabulary, and of municipal 

 posed of except as herein provided. presidents to assist in making the ar- 



"Sec. 8. The Chief of the Bureau of rests prescribed in this section when 

 Forestry, with the approval of the Sec- called upon to do so. 

 retary of the Interior, shall prescribe "Sec. 25. The cutting, clearing, or 

 such regulations not inconsistent with destroying of the public forests or forest 

 the provisions of this act as may be reserves, or any part thereof, for the 

 expedient or necessary for the protec- purpose of making caingins,* without 

 tion, management, reproduction, occu- lawful authority, is hereby prohibited, 

 pancy, and use of the public forests and and whoever, in violation of this pro- 

 forest reserves, and the said chief, with vision, shall cut, clear, or destroy the 

 the approval of the Secretary of the In- same, for such purpose, or shall wil- 

 terior, is hereby authorized to alter and fully or negligently set fire thereto, 

 revise such regulations. He shall in shall, upon conviction by a court of 

 particular provide for the use of the competent jurisdiction, be punished by 

 public forests and forest reserves in a fine not exceeding a sum equivalent 

 such manner as to insure for the fu- to twice the regular government charge 

 ture a continued supply of valuable upon the timber so cut, cleared, or de- 

 timber and other forest products. stroyed, and, in addition thereto, by 



"Sec. 10. The Chief of the Bureau imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, 

 of Forestry, with the approval of the in the discretion of the court. 

 Secretary of the Interior, may select "The cutting, collecting, destroying, 

 for sale or disposal, and may sell or or removing of timber or other forest 

 dispose of by license, from the public products, stone, or earth from the pub- 

 forests and forest reserves, at rates of lie forests or forest reserves for any 

 charge to be established by him in ac- other purpose than making a caifigin, 

 cordance with the provisions of sec- without license, permit, or other suffi- 

 tions II and 12 of this act, any timber, cient authority, is hereby prohibited, 

 firewood for commercial use, g'ums, and any person who, in violation of 

 resins, and other forest products, whose this provision, shall so cut, collect, de- 

 removal will not be detrimental to the stroy, or remove the same, by himself, 

 public forests or forest reserves or to through an agent or employee, or for 

 the interests which depend upon them, account of another, shall, in addition 



"Sec. 20. The Chief of the Bureau to the payment of the regular govern- 



of Forestry, with the approval of the ment charge on such timber, forest 



Secretary of the Interior, may, when products, stone, or earth, be subject to 



the public interests so require, make the payment of an additional sum equiv- 



requisition upon the bureau charged alent to the regular government charge 



with public surveys, to proceed to de- thereon, which shall be collected as in 



marcate, establish on the ground, and this act provided in the case of other 



erect monuments along the boundaries government charges." 

 of any public forest or forest reserves. The Public Land Act provides that 



and it shall be the duty of the last- no application for homestead, sale, or 



named bureau to comply with said lease of public land will be granted un- 



rcquisition. 



"Sec. 23. Every official, emplovee, or ^_ ._ . , , . .,^. ,,. 



^ r -1 n " r T- X. '• *Cainsrins are a system of shifting cultiva- 



agent of the Bureau of Forestry is em- ^-^^^ extremely destructive to the forests. Sec 



powered to make arrests without process American Forestry for March, 1910, p. 78. 



