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of product will be treated as trespass, and prosecuted in conformity with the provisions 

 of the Forest Code. 



Part III. — Scaling. - 



Art. 26. — As soon as the felling area shall have been made ready for receival under 

 the conditions above determined, a scale report will be drawn up and checked with the 

 purchaser, who will be duly notified. The report will be signed by the officers and em- 

 ployees present and by the purchaser or his representative; if he does not want to sign 

 or if he is absent this will be noted. This certificate will be submitted for the approval 

 of the conservator. Thus approved it will govern the amount due from the purchaser. 

 Partial scaling can be authorized by the conservator under exceptional circumstances of 

 which he will be the sole judge and under the official conditions of poHcy which he shall 

 determine. 



Art. 27. — Eight days before the date fixed for the scahng by the local Waters and 

 Forests officer the purchaser must furnish this agent an inventory of the products to 

 scale. 



Art. 28. — The wood classed by the Waters and Forests agents as building material 

 and for manufacture shall be cubed as cylinders having a height equal to the length of 

 the log and a base equal to the circumference (or diameter of the circumference) or aver- 

 age diameter at the middle of the log. The allowances on the length, circumference, and 

 diameter shall conform to the methods of measurement and volumetric tables used 

 locally and indicated in the advertisement. Circumferences and diameters will be 

 measured outside the bark for broadleaves and inside the bark for conifers. When the 

 butt (culee) of the tree is not cut (level with the grass) the point to measure the length 

 (of the butt log) from will include two-thirds the stump height. 



Art. 29. — The minor construction wood kept in the log, as stated in Art. 12, shall be 

 scaled as wood for building or manufacture. 



Art. 30. — All the other products shall be counted in the class to which they naturally 

 belong according to method of conversion, grouping, and pihng. 



Art. 31. — The stacks of wood piled between stacks shall be treated as rectangular 

 prisms having the same length as the wood, and the width and height of the pile. 



Art. 32. — The minor construction material designed for the mines can be partially 

 peeled according to custom without any increase in value on account of the loss in 

 volume. 



^ Part IV. — Removal of the Wood. — 



Art. 33. — The purchaser cannot remove any wood until he has obtained a permit 

 which will be delivered to him by the local Waters and Forests officer in charge, after 

 the approval of the scale report by the conservator. In case of violation the purchaser 

 will be bound to pay as damages twice the value of the wood removed, in accordance 

 with the price fixed by the auction record. If the amount and quahty of this wood can- 

 not be regularly proven, its value will be fixed officially by the conservator. The re- 

 moval of the wood before the approval of the scale report by the conservator will 

 besides involve the application of Art. 888 of the Penal Code. 



Art. 34- — Unless otherwise stipulated in the special sales clauses, the removal must 

 be completed within a period of one year counting from April 15 following the sale. 



Part V. — Price of Sale.'— Cost of Auction. — Registry and Stamp Rights. — 

 Art. 35. — The purchasers of felling areas of Federal wood will pay at the Federal 

 collector's depositories: (a) Within a term fixed by the special clauses, which cannot 

 exceed six months, the main price of the sale regulated by the scale report duly ap- 

 proved; (fe) within a period of 10 days, 1 franc, 60 per cent of the amount of the sale 

 so far as the fixed stamp rights and registry of the certificates relating to the sale as for 



