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the conservator, on stamped paper at least 20 days before the expiration of the afore- 

 said period. This request shall explain the area or the amount of timber remaining to 

 be cut, or else the amount and kind of wood remaining to be corded, the causes of the 

 delay in the logging, and the extension that it is necessary to have. It will be judged 

 on its merits by the conservator. The purchaser, solely by his request for an extension 

 of time for logging, obhgates himself to pay the indemnities fixed by the administration. 

 The extension will run from the day of the expiration in the periods fixed in the pre- 

 ceding article. In case the purchasers do not make use of the extensions which they 

 have been granted, they cannot obtain a refund of the charge made, except after a 

 report from the agent of Waters and Forests local officer in charge, dated at the latest 

 on the day of the expiration of the felling period, stamped and registered at their ex- 

 pense and showing unmistakably that they could not profit by the extension. 



Art. S9. — The purchaser is forbidden, at least unless the sales circular contains an 

 expUcit authorization, to peel or bark standing any wood in his sale, under the penalties 

 prescribed by Art. 36 of the Forest Code. 



Art. SO. — It is also forbidden: (a) To leave branches, twigs, chips or bark on areas 

 stocked with seedlings; (6) To place or pile wood on seedlings, Uve stumps, or against 

 reserved trees; (c) To notch these trees on the bole or roots or to drive naUs; (d) To 

 pile the products of logging outside the boundaries of the feUing area, except on land- 

 ings specially designated by the local Waters and Forests agent or his representative. 



Art. 31. — The purchasers must remove, as the cutting proceeds, the wood which 

 falls into the lanes separating feUing areas. 



Art. 32. — They must always keep the roads open in the felling areas, so that wagons 

 can pass at any time. 



Art. 33. — The purchaser wiU protect all the reserved trees, whatever their quality 

 and number. In no case, nor under any pretext whatever, can any reserved tree be 

 marked for the purchaser, even when it may be found that there are more than recorded 

 in the marking and sales report. He will protect (coppice) standards of every age 

 class and other reserved trees, even if they may be broken, or overturned by the wind, 

 or damaged by an act of Providence independent of the logging. He will be bound 

 to preserve them, as well as their crowns and branches. 



Art. 34. — When a tree marked for cutting shall lodge in its fall on a reserved tree, 

 the purchaser cannot fell this reserve until after the local Waters and Forests agent 

 or his representative shall have recognized the necessity for felling. 



Art. 36. — Whenever, despite the observance of the felling rules applicable to the 

 cutting areas, the reserves shall have been overturned by logging, or when the reserves 

 shall have been knocked down under the conditions anticipated in the preceding article, 

 the purchaser shall be bound, if the Waters and Forests agent considers it necessary, 

 to replace these reserves by trees taken from those marked for felling. These trees 

 shall be chosen by the aforesaid agent and marked with his special marking hatchet. 

 Under no circumstances can the value of the tree thus designated exceed that of the 

 trees replaced. If the restitution is not required or if it is effected by trees less valuable 

 than those reserves overturned or knocked down, the purchaser will pay as damages 

 the value of these reserves or the difference between their value and that of the trees 

 marked to replace them, after a check valuation has been made. The valuation of the 

 reserves can never be less than the following established minimum: 



COMPOUND COPPICE FELLING AREAS 



Standard of the first rotation, S0.03 per 3.9 inches of circumference.* 

 Standard of the second rotation, 0.06 per 3.9 inches of circumference. 

 Standard of the third rotation, 0.09 per 3.9 inches of circumference. 



* These figures are for circumferences made 3.3 feet above the ground. 



