of any municipality, township, or settlement a suitable tract of forest, which shall be known as a communal forest, and the privilege of cutting, taking, or hiring cut or taken from the public forest without license and free of charge such timber other than timber of the first group, and such firewood, resins, other forest products, and stone or earth, as any resident of the municipality may require for housebuilding, fencing, boat building, or other personal use of himself or his family, shall then be exercised only within the communal forest thus set aside. Such communal forests shall be on lands more suitable for forestry than for agriculture. They shall be administered by the Director of Forestry, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, in such a way as to assure the people having rights therein of a continued supply of forest products necessary for their home use, and to this end the Director of Forestry may prescribe the species and sizes of trees that may be cut and the manner of removal of such trees or other forest products, stone, or earth. When there is no public forest land conveniently situated within the limits of a province to which any municipality, township, or settlement belongs, and when such public forest land exists in a neighboring province, it may be set aside as a communal forest for such municipality, township, or settlement, and timber cut in it without a license may then be exported from such communal forest to the municipality, township, or settlement in question. Exploitation of a communal forest for revenue shall be allowed only when the best interest of such forest demands cutting in excess of local needs. Such exploitation for revenue shall be carried on under license in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as in public forests. On satisfactory showing that a resident of any municipality, township, or settlement for which a communal forest has been set aside will erect a house of strong materials the Director of Forestry may issue or cause to be issued to such resident a written permit for the cutting within such communal forest of the requisite amount of firstgroup timber without charge, and such cutting shall then be lawful. Subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, the Director of Forestry may issue rules for carrying out the provisions of this paragraph, and such rules may provide for the suspension or withdrawal from any person of the free-use privilege herein provided as a punishment for the violation of the Forest Act, as amended, the forest rules, or of the provisions of this paragraph and the rules promulgated hereunder. "Dealers in forest products, stone, or earth taken from the public forests shall pay the charges prescribed in article fourteen of Act Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty-nine, entitled 'The Internal Revenue Law of Nineteen hundred and four,' on all such products taken by them. Every person, firm, or company whose business it is to sell timber or other forest products, stone, or earth shall be regarded as a dealer in such products within the meaning of this Act." SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twentysixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage. PUBLIC RESOLUTIONS AND EXTRACTS FROM MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF PHILIPPINE COMMISSION. [September 16, 1906-October 31, 1907.] GOVERNOR-GENERAL-PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION OF INAUGURAL ADDRESS. [Excerpt from minutes of the Commission of October 2, 1906.] Whereas it is the sense of the Philippine Commission that the printing and distribution of the inaugural address delivered by the honorable the governor-general of these islands, on the occasion of his taking office as governor-general on September 20, 1906, will be of substantial and permanent benefit and encouragement to the commercial, industrial, and agricultural interests of these islands and to the continuance of good government and order: Now, therefore, Resolved, That the executive secretary be authorized and directed to have printed at the Bureau of Printing 2,000 copies in English and 4,000 copies in Spanish of said inaugural address, in pamphlet form, for distribution thereof under his direction to the general public of these islands, and especially through the channels of the provincial governments. CONGRESSIONAL RELIEF FUND LOAN TO PROVINCES OF CAGAYAN AND ISABELA FOR RELIEF OF INHABITANTS IN DISTRESS THROUGH DAMAGES CAUSED BY RECENT STORM. [Excerpt from minutes of the Commission of October 20, 1906.] The president presented to the Commission delayed telegrams received from the provincial governors of Cagayan and Isabela advising of the damage done by the recent severe storm which passed over the Cagayan Valley and caused the Cagayan River to overflow its banks, destroying a great portion of the corn and rice crops and washing away a great many houses and a large quantity of stored tobacco. Request was made by both provincial governors for funds or provisions for the relief of people suffering from the results of the storm. In this connection the president called attention to the fact that the insular government has utilized practically all of its spare funds in returning land taxes to the provinces, and it would be impossible to meet calls of this kind from the general funds of the treasury, as requested by the provincial governors in question. He suggested, however, the advisibility of granting each of the two provinces the sum of P2,000, Philippine currency, from the unexpended balance of the Congressional relief fund. After consideration, it was, on motion, 553 Resolved, That the governor-general be authorized to expend from the fund appropriated by act No. 1406 from the Congressional relief fund the sum of 2,000, Philippine currency, for the province of Cagayan and P2,000, Philippine currency, for the province of Isabela, to be expended by the provincial boards in the relief of the inhabitants of those provinces who are in actual distress by reason of the great damage caused by the recent storm in northern Luzon, either by the purchase of food for such inhabitants as may be in immediate need or by employing them in such public works as the provincial boards may deem best; and Resolved further, That the expenditures thus authorized be made by the provincial treasurer of the province concerned upon resolution of the provincial board. PUBLICATIONS-FUTURE MANNER OF ISSUE AND SALE PRICE OF THE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. [Excerpt from minutes of the Commission of October 22, 1906.] Whereas on November 2, 1905, the Commission, by resolution, approved the issuance of the publications of the bureau of science in the form of a journal and fixed the annual subscription price of such journal, and later, by resolution, fixed the price of single copies and reprints but failed to fix the price of supplements and combined reprints of the journal; and Whereas the director of the bureau of science now recommends, with the approval of the secretary of the interior, that next year the Journal of Science be issued in three sections; namely, one covering tropical medicine and biology, the second, general science, and the third, botany, the price for the first section to be P6 per year and for the other two 4 per year, respectively, the subscription price for the whole Journal to be P10 per year, or 1 per single copy; and Whereas the arrangement suggested appears to be a desirable one; and Whereas in the course of the growth of the Journal of Science it may be advisable from time to time to make other changes in the manner of publishing the Journal, and it appears that the same may well be left to the director of science, subject to the approval of the secretary of the interior: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the plan of the director of science that, beginning with the coming year, the Journal of Science be issued in three sections, the first at an annual subscription of #6 and the other two at annual subscriptions of P4, respectively, or the whole Journal at an annual subscription of P10, and that the price of single copies of each section be fixed at P1, be and is hereby approved; and Resolved further, That the director of science, with the approval of the secretary of the interior, may make such changes from time to time in the manner of publishing the Journal of Science as he may deem proper, and, with the concurrence of the director of printing and the approval of the secretary of the interior, may fix the price of reprints, combined reprints, supplements, and additional sections of the Journal which it may be advisable to publish in the future, on the basis of the prices herein fixed for said Journal and the sections. thereof; and |