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(c) Before incurring any expense in transporting to a secure 

 place forest products, stone, or earth, to be sold at public auction, 

 the forest officer making the seizure will, if practicable, confer 

 with the provincial supervisor or other public officer charged 

 with similar duties and learn if he considers the products of 

 sufficient value to Avarrant incurring the cost of transportation. 

 When such unsold products are turned over to the supervisor 

 or other public officer charged with similar duties, he will sign 

 a receipt therefor on the bottom of the original, duplicate, and 

 triplicate manifests. 



ABANDONED FOEEST PKODUCTS. 



XXIV. {a) All abandoned drift or stranded timber, firewood, 

 bamboo, or other forest products will be considered the property 

 of the Government unless the owner, if there be one, establishes 

 his right and title thereto. Such products will be disposed of 

 by the local forest officer as provided in Regulation XXIII for 

 the public sale of forest products on which the Government 

 charges have not been paid. 



( 6 ) If such products are claimed by more than one person 

 the local forest officer may deliver the same to the person whom 

 he deems entitled thereto, or may refer the claimants to the 

 civil courts and deposit the product for safe keeping with the 

 nearest president of a municipality or settlement pending the 

 decision of such courts as to its disposal. Copies of all notices 

 published and of all evidence of title to abandoned forest products 

 will be kept on file at the local forest station. One copy of 

 each such notice must be forwarded to the Chief of the Bureau 

 of Forestry by the local forest officer, together with a memo- 

 randum of the action taken in the case by him. 



XXV. (a) The clearing by fire of grass and brush land and 

 of land in the public forest containing but little timber of 

 inferior species, for the purpose of making "caingins" will be 

 permitted in the following manner only: 



Application will be made in writing to the, local forest officer, 

 or in his absence to the nearest president of a municipality or 

 settlement, for permission to make a "caingin." The local forest 

 officer, or if there is no local forest officer, a municipal officer 

 designated by the president, will inspect the site of the proposed 

 "caingin," and if satisfied that it can be cleared with fire without 

 injury to adjoining public forests, will give written permission 

 to make the clearing, stating the allowed limits thereof. He 

 will instruct the person desiring to make such "caingin" relative 

 to the proper measures to be taken to prevent fire from damaging 

 adjoining property. If a "caiiigin" is authorized by a muni- 

 cipal officer, he must file with the local forest officer a report 

 in duplicate of his proceedings, giving location and extent of 

 the "caingin." The local forest officer must forward a copy of 

 this report to the Chief of the Bureau of Forestry. 



(b) In every case of violation of the provisions of section 

 twenty-five of The Forest Act, the local forest officer will, if 

 practicable, furnish the prosecuting officer with a detailed state- 

 ment of the facts relative to such violation. 



