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will be proceeded against under the provisions of section twenty- 

 nine of The Forest Act. 



(9) Applications for gratuitous licenses to cut timber for 

 public works must be forwarded by the local forest officer to 

 the office of the person, if any, discharging the duties of pro- 

 vincial supervisor for the province in which the forest products 

 for the talcing of which license is requested are situated. 



(10) Residents of Manila who desire licenses to gather forest 

 products in the provinces may iile their applications in the 

 Manila office. 



(11) When application is made for a, license by an incorpo- 

 rated company, a certified copy of the articles of incorporation 

 must be submitted with such application. 



LICENSE AGREEMENTS. 



XI. (a) A license agreement will be granted only for territory 

 where extensive cutting extending over a period of years can be 

 allowed and where logging operations can be personally super- 

 vised by forest officers. A minimum annual cutting will be 

 required, the amount so required to be cut depending upon the 

 forest conditions in the territory covered by the license and the 

 extent of the territory. Should the amount of timber cut be 

 less than that prescribed in the license agreement, the Chief of 

 the Bureau of Forestry may reduce the area of timber land 

 covered by the license. 



QEATUITOUS LICENSES. 



XII. (a) Gratuitous licenses will be granted as follows: 



(1) A private gratuitous license for a needy resident will 

 be issued only upon the certification of his need by the president 

 of the municipality or settlement in which the applicant resides, 

 or upon that of the local forest officer, and upon the sworn 

 agreement by such applicant that he will employ tlie timber or 

 use the forest products for which he applies solely for his own 

 use and benefit and will not sell the same or dispose of it in 

 any other manner than that authorized in the license. A 

 private gratuitous license may be granted for not more than 

 thirty cubic meters of timber of the second, third, or fourth 

 groups. The amount of timber granted by gratuitous license 

 to a needy resident will depend to some extent upon the abun- 

 dance of bamboo in the vicinity of the applicant's residence. 



(2) A public gratuitous license for timber to be used in 

 public works, entitlihg the holder free of charge to take such 

 amount of timber as may be needed in the public works desired. 



(3) Miner's gratuitous license. (See Regulation XIII.) 



(6) If any person holding an ordinary license cuts or removes 

 timber from public forests or forest reserves for a person holding 

 a gratuitous timber license, such ordinary license may be for- 

 feited. A gratuitous license will not be .issued to a holder of 

 an ordinary license of the same class. Holders of gratuitous 

 licenses are prohibited from giving away or selling any wood or 

 other forest products cut thereunder. Wood or other forest 

 products cut must be used for the purpose specified in the license 

 and should there be any surplus the regular Government charges 

 may be collected thereon. 



(c) Should any person holding a gratuitous license for cutting 



