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Licenses granted by the forestry bureau, Manila, P. I.—Continued.
LICENSES FOR RUBBER, GUMS, GUTTA-PERCHA, ETC.

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1900.

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GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 92.

OFFICE U. S. MILITARY GOVERNOR, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, Manila, P. I., June 27, 1900. The following provisions based on existing law, and amendatory thereto, prescribing the tariff on State timber, and regulations for the utilization of forest products in the public forests of the Philippine Islands, shall have the force and effect of law on and after July 1, 1900; but existing law on the same subjects shall remain valid, except in so far as herein modified or repealed, expressly, or by necessary implication.

CHAPTER I.—Tariff on State timber and instructions for its application.

ARTICLE 1. Timber shall be classified into six groups as indicated in the tables below. ART. 2. The unit of measure shall be, for the present, the cubic foot. It is recommended that lumber dealers accustom their employees to the use of the metric system. ART. 3. The price per cubic foot for the valuation of State timber shall be as indicated in the following table. The price shall be the same in all parts of these islands:

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ART. 4. The State sells its trees standing, excluding the bark in measuring the tree. ART. 5. Inasmuch as the measurement of standing timber can not always be made, for lack of available forestry employees, the concessioners may stack the timber hewn or cut up, subject to the additional charges hereinafter provided.

ART. 6. In round timber the length of the piece and the circumference in the middle section shall be measured.

ART. 7. When the logs are presented rough hewn-i. e., where a section is approximately octagonal (four sides being hewn and the other four with the bark on)-the dimensions shall be taken by measuring the length and average transverse section, but said section shall be a quadrilateral, formed by prolonging the four larger sidesi. e., the four hewn sides.

ART. 8. If the logs be hewn square, the contents shall be ascertained by measuring the length and an average transverse section, but in such cases the valuation shall be increased 25 per cent for the wood lost in hewing the tree square.

ART. 9. The cubic contents of sawed timber shall be ascertained as in the preceding article, carrying out the figures to tenths of a cubic "point;" but the increase in valuation (to make up for loss in the sawing) shall be limited to 15 per cent.

ART. 10. Wood of the Camagon tree, when presented stripped of its inner bark or surplusage, using only the heart wood, as is the custom of the trade, shall be measured according to the cubic contents actually presented, but the valuation shall be increased 100 per cent.

ART. 11. Logs of ebony trimmed down in like manner to the black hard wood shall be measured according to the cubic contents actually presented, as in the preceding case, but the valuation shall be increased 200 per cent.

ART. 12. The woods of groups 3, 4, and 5 only may be cut for fuel.
ART. 13. Classification of woods as per first article:

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