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three made by dividing the circumference of the tree into three practically equal parts, 

 the second having been cut at the right of the first when facing it. Unless specially 

 provided for in the sale contract, the tapping will be done on four faces. The former 

 faces will be abandoned no matter what their height. The contractor may, on his 

 demand, be authorized by the conservator to replace a 5-year tapping period by a 

 4-year period, adopting for the faces the sizes prescribed for the 4-year period. This 

 request may be made during the course of exploitation but must be before the face 

 exceeds the dimensions prescribed for the year corresponding to the chosen period. 



(B) Tapping to Death (Gemmage a mort). — If the trees to be tapped to death 

 form part of the sale or are marked for the contractors, the latter can work them as 

 they think best. On the other hand, contractors cannot tap trees so as to diminish 

 their value as sawlogs or firewood. The size of the faces should be such that their whole 

 area never exceeds the limits of a regular face. 



Art. 20. — Any tree worked contrary to the principles described in the preceding 

 article or the special clauses will be considered as having been mutilated, thus falling 

 under the penalty of Arts. 192 and 196 of the Forest Code. The contractor will be 

 liable to the same penalties, if at any time, in order to lead the resin into the cup, he 

 shall have made at the foot of the trees tapped alive circular incisions sufficiently deep 

 to damage the wood. 



Art. 21. — Tapping operations shall be limited to between March 1 and October 31 

 of each year, but the contractor may commence to bark the pine to be tapped and to 

 place the cutters after February 1. He may also collect the scrape up to December 1 

 of each year of the tapping period, except that the last year (of the period) must be 

 terminated by November 15. If, by any reason of local conditions, other periods must 

 be adopted for the aforesaid collection, mention will be made of it in the special sales 

 clauses. 



Art. 22. — The contractor may prune the trees to be tapped alive up to a height of 

 13.1 feet. Unless stipulations have been made to the contrary, he may dispose of the 

 products of this operation. 



Art. 23. — The felling of trees sold to be tapped to death cannot commence before 

 July 1 of the year before the final year of the felling period. The contractors who 

 wish to anticipate the feUing of all or a part of these trees shall ask authorization for it 

 from the Director-General of Waters and Forests, who will fix the new conditions of 

 exploitation and, if there are any, for the payment of annuities. In any case this author- 

 ization will not be necessarj' for trees unfit for tapping that measure less than 6 inches in 

 diameter at breast height; the contractors will have the privilege of varying them at 

 any time during the exploitation period on condition that they notify the local agent 

 when they commence felling. Dead standing trees designated at the time of the mark- 

 ing shall be felled either in the first month of the period of exploitation or within one 

 month from the day of the auction, if this took place after the beginning of the exploita- 

 tion period. 



Art. 24. — Trees sold shall be cut with the axe or with the saw as near as possible 

 to the stamp on the stump without injuring it. In no case and under no pretext may 

 the imprint of the State marking hatchet be erased from trees tapped alive or, with 

 equal force, those which are to be tapped to death; these marks must remain intact 

 through the entire period of exploitation and to this end all necessary precautions shall 

 be taken from the first cutting of the faces; it shall even be carefully seen to that these 

 marks are not covered by the resin. Every tree on which the aforesaid marks shall 

 have disappeared will be considered as not forming a part of the sale and will render 

 the contractor liable to the application of Arts. 34 and 196 of the Forest Code. The 

 method of marking will be indicated in the advertisement and in the sale record. 



Art. 25. — If, because of unforeseen circumstances, such as patrol paths, fire lines, 



