twenty-four exclusively: And provided further, That the author- 

 ity given by the Chief of the Bureau of Forestry, as hereinafter 

 provided, to issue licenses for the taking of stone and earth 

 from public forests and forest reserves shall be understood to 

 apply only when such stone and earth is taken from lands not 

 more valuable for mining purposes than for other purposes, and 

 therefore not subject to entry as a mining claim. 



Sec. 6. No prescriptive right to the use, possession, or enjoy- 

 ment of any forest product, nor any permanent concession, con- 

 tinuing right, privilege, or easement, of any kind whatsoever, 

 upon or within or respecting the products of the public forests 

 or forest reserves, shall aocrue or be granted except as provided 

 in this Act. But the public forests and forest reserves shall be 

 and remain open of access for all lawful purposes to the people 

 of the Philippine Islands except as provided in this Act. 



Sec. 7. Lands in public forests, upon the certification of the 

 Chief of the Bureau of Forestry that said lands are better 

 adapted and more valuable for agricultural than for forest, pur- 

 poses and not required by the public interests to be kept under 

 forest, shall be declared by the Secretary of the Interior to be 

 agricultural lands. 



When in his opinion the public interests so require, the Chief 

 of the Bureau of Forestry may make application to the Chiefs 

 of the Bureaus of Agriculture and Public Lands for the detail 

 of an oflicial from each of the said Bureaus to form, with an 

 official from the Bureau of Forestry, a committee for the purpose 

 of assisting said Chief of the Bureau of Forestry in making this 

 certification, and upon the receipt of said application it shall 

 be the duty of each of said Chiefs of the Bureaus of Agriculture 

 and Public Lands to direct one of his subordinates to render the 

 assistance applied for. 



Sec. 8. The Chief of the Bureau of Forestry, with the approval 

 of the Secretary of the Interior, shall prescribe such regulations 

 not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act as may be ex- 

 pedient or necessary for the protection, management, reproduc- 

 tion, occupancy, and use of the public forests and forest reserves, 

 and the said Chief, with the approval of the Secretary of the 

 Interior, is hereby authorized to alter and revise such regulations. 

 He shall in particular provide for the use of the public forests 

 and forest reserves in such manner as to insure for the future a 

 continued supply of valuable timber and other forest products. 



Sec. 9. The Chief of the Bureau of Forestry, with the approval 

 of the Secretary of the Interior, may, upon proper terms which 

 he may deem reasonable, lease, as herein provided, tracts of 

 land not exceeding four hectares in extent in the public forests 

 and forest reserves, to any person or to any association of persons 

 holding timber licenses, for occupancy as sites for sawmills or 

 timber depots, and the Secretary of the Interior may grant free 

 rights of way through the public lands to enable such person, 

 or association of persons, to get access to the lands to which 

 such licenses apply. 

 ^ Sec. 10. The Chief of the Bureau of Forestry, with the approval 

 . of the Secretary of the Interior, may select for sale or disposal, 

 and may sell or dispose of by license, from the public forests 

 and forest reserves, at rates of charge to be established by him in 

 accordance with the provisions of sections eleven and twelve of 

 this Act, any timber, firewood for commercial use, gums, resins. 



