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[ Act No. 3225, November 02, 1925 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, KNOWN AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, AS AMENDED BY ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED AND TWO. EXTENDING THE TIME DURING WHICH LOWER-GROUP TIMBER MAY BE TAKEN WITHOUT LICENSE

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

Section 1. Section eighteen hundred and forty of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, as amended by Act Numbered Twenty-nine hundred and two, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 1840. Taking of lower-group timber without license.-Until the twenty-fifth day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty, residents of a place for which a communal forest shall not have been set aside may, without license and free of charge, take timber of the second and lower groups, minor forest products, and stone or earth which they need for personal purposes, and not for sale, provided such products are taken in a public forest, but not in a forest reserve: Provided, That a permit from the Bureau of Forestry to be issued free of charge shall be required for the transportation of said products from their place of origin to the municipality, municipal district, township, or settlement wherein the applicant resides.ℒαwρhi৷"

Section 2. Tins Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, November 2, 1925.

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