REPORT OF FORESTRY BUREAU, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 15 



PROCEDURE AS PRESCRIBED IN FORESTRY REGULATIONS IN ORDER TO 

 EXTRACT FOREST PRODUCTS FROM THE PUBLIC LANDS OF THE 

 PHILIPPINES. 



I. Application b} T letter to the forestry bureau of the party desiring 

 license. The writer must be known to the bureau or vouched for by 

 some responsible party. The forestry official in the district where 

 the license is to be granted must indorse the application. No particu- 

 lar form of letter is required in making this application. 



II. The particular license requested, if granted, is made out on a 

 special form, signed by the head of the forestry bureau, and stamped. 

 (See Forms 4, 5, 6, 7.) 



The license is sent with a copy of the forestry regulations to the 

 applicant. A Spanish copy of the regulations is sent to all native or 

 Spanish applicants. Notice of said license is also sent to the forestry 

 official in the district covered by the license. It has been customary 

 for many years to grant licenses covering whole provinces, but lately 

 the polic} 7 has been to restrict the license to a district covering but 

 one or two pueblos or townships. 



In the province of Abra, owing to severe cutting in former years, 

 no licenses were granted by the Spanish bureau. Since the organiza 

 tion of the present bureau but one license has been granted in this 

 province. This license was given at the solicitation of the military 

 government, and was for the purpose of supplying the needs of the 

 military forces. 



In other provinces as many as 37 timber licenses have been granted. 

 In many provinces and islands where there is much valuable timber 

 not one' application has been received for timber or other licenses. 



After license is received the licensee may proceed to the district 

 covered by his license and begin operations. 



Article 62 of the Forestry Regulations prescribes that the trees to 

 be cut shall be selected. This has been done under the personal super- 

 vision of the undersigned in the pine region of Luzon, where the tim- 

 ber is thin and where vigorous cutting might be harmful to future 

 forest growth. But, as a rule, the cuttings in other regions have been 

 so moderate that up to the present time it has not been found neces- 

 sary to mark the trees to be felled. This will be done in the near 

 future, or as soon as any logging company begins to operate on a 

 large scale. At present loggers are taking ~ out one tree where they 

 could take 100 and not injure the forest growth. ' This state of affairs 

 is not likely to continue many months longer. 



When the logs are ready for removal the licensee notifies (see article 

 63) the nearest forestry official, who measures his wood and makes out 

 an order for payment (Form 3), and also gives to the licensee a mani- 

 fest (Form 13) on which is noted the kind and dimensions of each log. 



In some cases (article 66) the licensee pays at once for his wood. In 

 other cases he may pay at the destination 6f cargo if in the Philip- 

 pines. 



In every case the forestry official retains a copy of the manifest, 

 inscribes one copy in his records, and sends one copy to the Forestry 

 Bureau at Manila. 



At the end of each two weeks he submits a report (Form 17) of work 

 done during this period. This gives twice each month complete and 



