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Art. 18. — The permit to cut will be delivered by the agent of Waters and Forests 

 service, chief of service, on the presentation of certificates showing that the purchaser 

 has put up his securities or security, furnished his remittances, promissory notes, or cash 

 and made the payments required under Art. 12 of this circular. 



The Waters and Forests agent wiU sign these papers. He will besides give to the pur- 

 chaser if he asks for them: (a) A copy of the minutes of his auction, as soon as they have 

 been verified at the Secretary's oflBce at the place of sale; (6) a copy of the sales circular 

 and of the special clauses; (c) a copy of the special circular for the articles, clauses, and 

 conditions which concern him when this bill of sale is added to the auction circular; 

 (d) a copy of the survey notes and, if there is one, a map of the felling area. All these 

 papers shall be vised for stamps. 



Art. 19. — The contractor shall send the permit to the ranger in charge and inform 

 him in advance of the day he plans to start cutting. 



Art. 20. — Unless otherwise indicated or supplementary to the special auction clauses 

 the wood shall be cut: 



In the coppice fellings: " a tire et aire " with the axe as close to the ground as possible, 

 and so that the water cannot remain on the stumps. The roots must remain intact. 



In the high forest fellings : level with the ground, with the axe or saw. 



Conifers marked for cutting in coppice felling areas may also be sawed down. 



Art. 21 . — When the sales circular authorizes or prescribes felling with stump ex- 

 traction, the purchasers must fill up and level the holes made by the uprooted trees as 

 the cutting proceeds. 



Art. 22. — The purchasers shall be bound to Umb and top before felling only those 

 trees marked for cutting which have been previously designated by the Waters and 

 Forests Service. The number of these trees and how they have been designated shall 

 be given in the sales circular. The wood resulting from the operations including that 

 from the preliminary work of limbing and topping undertaken voluntarily by the suc- 

 cessful bidders shall be immediately removed, and especially before further felling, 

 when it covers young growth or seedlings. 



Art. 23. — The trees shall be felled, so far as possible, so as not to damage those 

 reserved and cut areas where there is no young growth. In feUing areas on a rapid slope 

 the trees shall be felled, unless otherwise authorized, in the direction of the slope, with 

 the crown up hill. 



Art. 24- — As cutting proceeds, the purchasers in coppice feUings shall be bound, 

 unless waived in the sales circular, to remove old stumps and to cut level with the 

 ground the boles bent or broken, the brush, brambles, weeds, shrubs, and injurious 

 imdergrowth. 



This cleaning is not obhgatory in high forest fellings unless prescribed in the contract. 



Art. 25. — The small branches and limbs shall be removed and piled, as the cutting 

 proceeds, so as not to obstruct hauling in the feUing areas. 



Art. 26. — The material resulting from cording the small branches and hmbs shall 

 be stacked or placed in piles as cutting proceeds. 



Art. 27. — The cutting of wood shall be finished by April 15 after award. 



The wood peeled by virtue of the contract shall be cut before July 1. 



The cording of small branches and limbs, including piling or stacking the material 

 resulting from this cording, shall be finished by June 1 following the award. 



As regards the small branches and limbs resulting from wood peeled by virtue of 

 the contract, this period is extended to July 15 following. 



If local conditions necessitate other terms they will be given in the special clauses 

 of the contract. 



Art. 28. — Every purchaser who cannot finish felling or cording during the pre- 

 scribed period and who requires an extension shall be bound to make the request of 



