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and thereafter such forest reserves shall 

 not be entered, sold, or otherwise dis- 

 posed of, but shall remain as such for 

 forest uses. 



"Sec. 5. The public forests and forest 

 reserves and the timber, firewood, gums, 

 and other products thereof, shall not be 

 sold, entered, leased, or otherwise dis- 

 posed of except as herein provided. 



"Sec. 8. The Chief of the Bureau of 

 Forestry, with the approval of the Sec- 

 retary of the Interior, shall prescribe 

 such regulations not inconsistent with 

 the provisions of this act as may be 

 expedient or necessary for the protec- 

 tion, management, reproduction, occu- 

 pancy, and use of the public forests and 

 forest reserves, and the said chief, with 

 the approval of the Secretary of the In- 

 terior, is hereby authorized to alter and 

 revise such regulations. He shall in 

 particular provide for the use of the 

 public forests and forest reserves in 

 such manner as to insure for the fu- 

 ture a continued supply of valuable 

 timber and other forest products. 



"Sec. 10. The Chief of the Bureau 

 of Forestry, with the approval of the 

 Secretary of the Interior, may select 

 for sale or disposal, and may sell or 

 dispose of by license, from the public 

 forests and forest reserves, at rates of 

 charge to be established by him in ac- 

 cordance with the provisions of sec- 

 tions ii and 12 of this act, any timber, 

 firewood for commercial use, gums, 

 resins, and other forest products, whose 

 removal will not be detrimental to the 

 public forests or forest reserves or to 

 the interests which depend upon them. 



"Sec. 20. The Chief of the Bureau 

 of Forestry, with the approval of the 

 Secretary of the Interior, may, when 

 the public interests so require, make 

 requisition upon the bureau charged 

 with public surveys, to proceed to de- 

 marcate, establish on the ground, and 

 erect monuments along the boundaries 

 of any public forest or forest reserves, 

 and it shall be the duty of the last- 

 named bureau to comply with said 

 requisition. 



"Sec. 23. Every official, employee, or 

 agent of the Bureau of Forestry is em- 

 powered to make arrests without process 



in or upon the public forests or forest 

 reserves, or territory adjacent thereto, 

 of any person who is committing or at- 

 tempting to commit any violation of 

 this act or the regulations established 

 thereunder, and it shall be the duties 

 of governors of provinces, the Philip- 

 pine Constabulary, and of municipal 

 presidents to assist in making the ar- 

 rests prescribed in this section when 

 called upon to do so. 



"Sec. 25. The cutting, clearing, or 

 destroying of the public forests or forest 

 reserves, or any part thereof, for the 

 purpose of making caingins,* without 

 lawful authority, is hereby prohibited, 

 and whoever, in violation of this pro- 

 vision, shall cut, clear, or destroy the 

 same, for such purpose, or shall wil- 

 fully or negligently set fire thereto, 

 shall, upon conviction by a court of 

 competent jurisdiction, be punished by 

 a fine not exceeding a sum equivalent 

 to twice the regular government charge 

 upon the timber so cut, cleared, or de- 

 stroyed, and, in addition thereto, by 

 imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, 

 in the discretion of the court. 



"The cutting, collecting, destroying, 

 or removing of timber or other forest 

 products, stone, or earth from the pub- 

 lic forests or forest reserves for any 

 other purpose than making a caingin, 

 without license, permit, or other suffi- 

 cient authority, is hereby prohibited, 

 and any person who, in violation of 

 this provision, shall so cut, collect, de- 

 stroy, or remove the same, by himself, 

 through an agent or employee, or for 

 account of another, shall, in addition 

 to the payment of the regular govern- 

 ment charge on such timber, forest 

 products, stone, or earth, be subject to 

 the payment of an additional sum equiv- 

 alent to the regular government charge 

 thereon, which shall be collected as in 

 this act provided in the case of other 

 government charges." 



The Public Land Act provides that 

 no application for homestead, sale, or 

 lease of public land will be granted un- 



*Caingins are a system of shifting cultiva- 

 tion extremely destructive to the forests. See 

 AMERICAN FORESTRY for March, 1910, p. 78. 



