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The advertisement will show the minimum sizes for this wood, if there are any. 



Art. 11. — Wood which has not been classed as fit for building timber or manufacture 

 by the Waters and Forests agents shall be worked into minor construction material 

 (small logs, split wood, poles, mine props, etc.) or into firewood (fuel, charcoal, fagots, 

 fagot bundles, etc.) so that the commodities manufactured can enter the classes given in 

 the sales circular used for the estabhshment of the price. 



Art. 12. — The minor construction material will be left separate in the log, or laid out 

 in Hues of ten each, or piled between stakes according as they are regularly placed by 

 the purchaser in a class sold by the cubic meter, by the piece, or by the stere. 



Art. 13. — ■ Unless otherwise stipulated in the special sales clauses, the firewood and 

 charcoal will be stacked according to local usage. The piles must always contain even 

 steres unless there is insufficient material. 



Art. llf- — The fagots, bundles of fagots, etc., will be stacked in piles of 10, 20, or 25 

 or multiples thereof. 



Art. 15. — When the bark is sold separately it will be bound in bundles; it will then 

 be stacked as fagots or bundles of fagots. 



Art. 16. — The roots and chips from chopping will be stacked in round piles. 



Art. 17. — All the piles will be made according to the commodity class and in each 

 class by lengths. 



Art. 18. — If during the logging the purchaser desires to make a class of commodity 

 other than those recited in the sales circular, he will make the request in writing of the 

 conservator, who will fix the bases of price for the new product units and will give 

 notice to the aforesaid purchaser in writing. 



In case this rule is broken the price of the new commodity classes will be fixed officially 

 by the conservator, without prejudicing the application of Art. 69 of the general 

 circular. 



Art. 19. — At any time during logging the agents can check the wood to make sure 

 of its quantity and class ; the piles which shall have been broken will be at once restacked 

 by the purchaser. 



Art. 20. — ^ The purchaser will convert and arrange for inclusion in the scaling: (a) 

 The wood resulting from windfall, windbreak, and from surveying lines, situated within 

 the felling area. However, he will not be held to this obligation if the value of the 

 aforesaid wood exceeds by 10 per cent the total amount of the felling area. (6) The 

 wood from lopping if there is any. 



Art. 21. — As the conversion proceeds, wood of all kind, except the trees in the log, 

 will be (if there is any) collected at the areas indicated by the special sales clauses. In 

 any case it will be arranged for scaling as directed by the Waters and Forests agents or 

 their representatives. 



Art. 22. — • The purchasers can have the special clauses waived for the conversion of 

 branches having at the large end a maximum circumference, determined according to 

 local usages and indicated in the advertisement, on condition that they conform to the 

 prescriptions of the aforesaid clauses governing the destination for these products. 



Art. 23. — The time for felling and converting (including the grouping, piling, or 

 stacking) will be established by the special sales clauses. 



Art. 24- — The withes for the fagot bundles, fagots and bark, resulting from the sale, 

 will be given to the purchaser free of charge, who will gather them at his expense under 

 the superintendence of the local guard in the places designated by the range officer. If 

 the Waters and Forests agents judge that this removal cannot take place, or that it 

 should be limited to certain species, mention will be made in the sales circular. 



Art. 25. — Before the permit for removal is given the workmen cannot help them- 

 selves, for their own use, to anything except brambles, parasitic plants, or remnants 

 designated by the local guard. The removal of this wood and the use of any other kind 



