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(s) When a forest officer delivers an order of payment to a 

 holder of a license or his agent, the latter will receipt therefor 

 on the lower part of the original and duplicate. When imprac- 

 ticable to deliver an order of payment to the holder of a license 

 or his agent, the same will be delivered to the proper municipal 

 officer, taking his receipt in the manner above prescribed. The 

 municipal officer will deliver the original to the holder of the 

 license or his agent, causing him to receipt therefor with date 

 of delivery, and advising the local forest officer of the date of 

 delivery to the holder of the license or his agent, or when an 

 order of payment is sent to a municipal officer for delivery to 

 payor he will cause the order to be receipted for, by the licensee 

 or his agent, with date of delivery, and advise the forest station 

 as above. 



(t) Each manifest of timber selected for felling by -^ forester 

 will contain a certification to that effect at the foot of the 

 original, duplicate, and triplicate manifests. Certification will 

 also be made by foresters on manifests of firewood exempted 

 from payment of Government charges under the provisions of 

 paragraph eleven of section twelve of The Forest Act. 



{u) Whoever, in violation of the provisions of The Forest 

 ■ Act or of these Regulations, discharges from any ship, boat, raft, 

 car, cart, or any other means of transportation, forest products, 

 or stone, or earth, or fails to pay the amounts due the Govern- 

 ment on forest products, or stone, or earth, for a period of 

 more than thirty days from the date of the receipt by him or 

 his agent of the order directing the payment of the same, or 

 transports or removes forest products, or stone, or earth without 

 a manifest, unless he has received express authority to do so 

 from the Chief of the Bureau of Forestry, will, in addition to 

 the regular Government charges thereon, be subject to the pay- 

 ment of the sum of fifty per centum thereof, to be collected on 

 an order of payment, in accordance with section thirty of The 

 Forest Act. 



AUCTION SALES. 



XXIII. (a) When forest products, stone, or earth are sold 

 at public auction under the provisions of section thirty-two of 

 The Forest Act, within two days after such sale the local forest 

 officer shall forward the duplicate manifest therefor to the 

 Bureau of Forestry at Manila. He will file the triplicate at 

 the forest station and deliver the original to the purchaser. 

 On the original, .duplicate, and triplicate manifests the proceed- 

 ings of the sale will be noted and signed by the local forest 

 officer and attested by the secretary of the municipality or 

 settlement. The local forest officer will make out an order of 

 payment equal to the amount of the bid, and upon presentation 

 of the receipt of payment the manifest of the products sold 

 will be marked paid and turned over to the purchaser, who may 

 then take charge of and remove the products sold. The cost 

 of seizure will include the cost of transporting the products to 

 a secure place. 



(6) If after sale there is a balance due the delinquent, the 

 local forest officer will forward a certified copy of the manifest 

 on Bureau of Forestry Form Thirteen and one-half to the collect- 

 ing officer. Notation of said balance will also be made on the 

 order of payment. If there is nothing due the delinquent, no 

 manifest will be furnished the collecting oificer. 



