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(«) When the cutting or gathering of forest products under 

 any license has been finished, the holder of the license must in 

 writing notify the nearest forest ofScer of the place where such 

 products are deposited, the classes and amounts of the same, 

 and their destination. He must also state whether he has left 

 any felled timber or any standing selected timber in the area 

 covered by his license, and if so, he must state the amount and 

 classes of such felled or selected timber left in the forest. Any 

 person who fails or unreasonably delays to give such notice may 

 be punished as provided in section twenty-nine of The Forest Act. 



(o) Timber cut under a license and not removed from the 

 forest within the period covered by such license will be charged 

 for at the regular rate. 



(p) Firewood, except when worked up from tree tops, as 

 provided in section twelve of The Forest Act and in Regulation 

 XX {d) and (e), must be of the third or fourth groups, and if 

 woods of the first or second groups are taken as firewood, the 

 same must be paid for as timber at double the Government rate 

 for timber of these groups. 



iq) Wood cut for burning into charcoal must be of the third 

 or fourth groups, and the unauthorized use of woods of other 

 groups for this purpose will subject the holder of the license 

 to payment for the same as timber at double the Government 

 rate for timber of such groups. 



(r) All wood employed in the manufacture of charcoal must 

 be paid for before it is burned. After felling trees and before 

 commencing the process of burning for charcoal', the holder of a 

 license must present to the local forest ofiieer, or, in his absence, 

 to the president of the municipality or settlement within which 

 the wood is being piled, an itemized statement of the timber 

 felled and must state where it is being piled. This statement 

 will be verified and the wood valued by such officer or president; 

 payment will be made and manifest will be issued as prescribed 

 in Regulation XXII, paragraphs (6), (f), (h), and (s). After 

 making the payment ordered, the holder of a license may proceed 

 with the burning, but he must exercise care to avoid injury to 

 standing timber, and if any damage results to such timber 

 from his burning operations, said damage will be estimated by 

 the local forest officer and payment therefor will be enforced 

 in accordance with the provisions of the last paragraph of sec- 

 tion twenty-five of The Forest Act. 



GUMS, EESINS, AND WOOD OILS. 



XXI. (a) In extracting gums, resins, wood oils, and similar 

 forest products, the holder of a license must make the cuttings 

 or incisions into tlie trunks of the trees at least twenty-five 

 centimeters above the ground. These incisions should be made 

 with a very sharp instrument and may penetrate the bark and 

 the first layers of sapwood only; they must not exceed twenty- 

 five centimeters in length and taust not penetrate the heart 

 wood. When the flow of juice is obstructed at the outer edges 

 of the incisions, the holder of a, license will be permitted to 

 recut these edges and to lengthen the cut by twenty-five centi- 

 meters, prolonging it upward, provided that the width of the 

 incision shall never exceed eight centimeters. The making of 

 incisions, or the trimming of the edges of incisions already made, 

 or any lengthening of the same will not be permitted during 



