and other forest products, whose removal will not be detrimental 

 to the public forests or forest reserves or to the interests which 

 depend upon them. 



Sec. 11. For the purposes of this Act the various provinces in 

 the Philippine Islands are divided into two classes: 



Class A shall include the Provinces of Abra, Bataau, Batangas, 

 Benguet, Bulacah, Capiz, Cavite, Cebu, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, 

 Iloilo, La Lagima, Nueva Eoija, Pampanga, Pangasinan, Romblon, 

 Rizal, Sorsogon, Tarlae, Union, and Zambales. 



Class B shall include the Provinces of Albay, Ambos Cama- 

 rines, Antique, Bohol, Cagayan, Isabela, Lepanto-Bontoc, Leyte, 

 Masbate, Mindoro, Misamis, Moro, Negros Occidental, Negros 

 Oriental, Nueva Vizcaya, Paragua, Samar, Surigao, and Tayabas. 



For the purposes of this Act the various native trees are 

 divided into four groups: 



The first group shall include acle, betis, baticulin, camagon, 

 ebony, ipil, lanete, mancono, molave, narra, tindalo, and yacal. 



The second group shall include alupag, aranga, banaba, bansa- 

 laguin, banuyo, batitinan, bolongeta, calamansanay, calantas, 

 dungon, guijo, macaasin, malacadios, mangachapuy, palo Maria, 

 supa, teak, and tuean-calao. 



The third group shall include agoho, amuguis. anubing, apitong, 

 batino, bitanhol, catmon, calumpit, cupang, dalinsi, dita, dungon- 

 late, malacmalac, malapapaya, malasantol, mayapis. nato, palo- 

 sapis, panao, sacat, santol, tamayuan, and tanguile. 



The fourth group shall include anahao, anam, apuit, bacao, 

 balacat, balinhasay, batete, bayoc, bonga, bulao, lauan, malaano- 

 nang, malabalac, malabonga, mangasinoro, manionie, pagatpat, 

 and pagsainguin. 



Sec. 12. The metric system of weights and measures, as adopted 

 by sections thirty-five hundred and sixty-nine and thirty-five 

 hundred and seventy of the Revised Statutes of the United States, 

 shall be used. 



On each cubic meter of timber which may be cut in any public 

 forest or forest reserve in any of the provinces of the Philippine 

 Islands for domestic sale or consumption, or for export, there 

 shall be paid, within thirty days from date of the receipt by 

 the owner or his agent of the order of payment of the Government 

 charge on the same, into the Insular Treasury, as provided by 

 existing law, the following sums: 



On all timber included in the first group cut in any province 

 in Class A, five pesos ; when cut in any province included in Class 

 B, two pesos and fifty centavos. 



On all timber included in the second group cut in any province 

 included in Class A, three pesos,; when cut in any province in- 

 cluded in Class B, one peso and fifty centavos. 



On all timber included in the third group cut in any province 

 included in Class A, one peso and fifty centavos ; when cut in 

 any province included in Class B, one peso. 



On all timber included in the fourth group and on all non- 

 enumerated timber cut in any province included in Class A, 

 one peso; when cut in any province included in Class B, fifty 

 centavos: Provided, That when timber cut in provinces included 

 in Class A has been selected for felling by duly authorized forest 

 ofiicials, the rates on such timber shall be only such as are fixed 

 in this section to timber cut in provinces included in Class B: 



