Section 1. Any person who
desires to ship forest products of whatever sort to a foreign port
shall produce to the collector of customs at the port of shipment a
receipt from a forestry official showing that the forestry takes on
these products have been paid, unless such products are taken from
private land the title to which has been properly registered in the
office of the Forestry Bureau at Manila, in which case a shipper shall
produce a certificate from a forestry official to this effect.
Sec. 2. No collector of customs shall clear a
vessel having on board forest products of any sort from any port of the
Philippine Islands for a foreign port until the shipper of such
products has complied with the provisions of section one of this Act.
Sec. 3. Every collector of internal revenue and
every provincial treasurer in the Philippine Islands shall make to the
Chief of Forestry Bureau an itemized monthly report of all moneys
received by him for taxes on forest products, giving for each payment
the date when made, the name of the payor, the number of the forestry
officials' order under which the payment is made, the nature of the
product on which the payment is made, the name of the province in which
it was taken, and the amount of the payment.
Sec. 4. 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
twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
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