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:

  "SEC. 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."

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

Approved, November 2, 1925.