SECTION 1. Section eighteen hundred and thirty-eight of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Revised Administrative Code, as amended by Act Numbered Thirty-eight hundred and twenty, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 1838. Leasing of forest land for special purposes.—The Director of Forestry, with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce, may, upon such terms as he may deem reasonable, lease or grant to any Filipino citizen or association of persons duly incorporated and authorized by the Constitution to acquire lands of the public domain, permits for the use of forest lands or vacant public lands not declared agricultural land, for a period not exceeding twenty years, for the establishment of sawmills, lumber yards, timber depots, logging camps and rights-of-way and for the construction of hotels, sanatoria, bathing establishments, residences, or for camps, fishponds, nipa and bacauan plantations, pastures for large or small cattle or for other lawful purposes, in an area not exceeding twenty-four hectares, except in so far as fishponds, nipa and bacauan plantations, pastures and rights-of-way are concerned, for which the maximum area shall be two thousand hectares for pastures and two hundred hectares for fishponds and nipa and bacauan plantations: and for rights-of-way, the area of the land that may be leased shall be such as may actually and reasonably be necessary to carry out the purposes for which such lease is requested.
"Any person or association of persons occupying or using any part of the forest land or vacant public land not declared agricultural land without permit as above required shall be liable to the payment of twice the regular rentals now or hereafter provided for by regulations for such kind of use during such time that the area is illegally used or occupied."