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liolders ; but these are nevertheless bound until they obtain another 

 situation, or go in any other way out of service, to communicate instruc- 

 tion, each in his own branch, to the pupils of the institution who present them- 

 selves for this end, with the approval of the director, to obtain the said instruc- 

 tion along with the above-mentioned practical course. In connection with 

 this We have, upon the said representation of the senate, chosen to allow that 

 the highest three of the forest conductors who have gone through Evois 

 Forest Institute, and by prefei'ence those who have distinguished themselves, 

 shall receive till further notice a yearly payment of 800 marks, which payment, 

 coming from the Finnish public chest, each of these forest conductors shall 

 enjoy for a period of three years, so long as there is no demand for ordinary 

 service, with the obligation to be at the disposition of the forest administra- 

 tion, instead of the hitherto regulation'payment of four marks a day, it being 

 provided that the senate at the proper time, when the number of the forest 

 conductors or other circumstances make it possible to reduce these pay- 

 ments, may bring the matter again before us. 



" Finally, We have left it to the economic department of the senate, in regard 

 to the said ordered reconstitution of Evois Institute, to take order for the 

 complete carrying out of these rules. 



" Helsingfors, May 2nd, 1874. — According to his Imperial Majesty's own 

 determination, and in his high name, the executive senate for Finland. 

 (Sd.) R. Furnhielm, H. Molander, A. Mechelin, T. H. Thilen, Oscar ISTorrman, 

 F. Walmquist. 



"Rules laid down by his Imperial Majesty for Evois Forest Institute, given 

 in Helsingfors, May 2nd, 1874 : — 



" We, Alexander II., &c., make knowu in accordance with the special 

 decree already issued, that Evois Forest Institute shall for the future obtain an 

 altered organization, and we have found good to lay down the following rules 

 for the action and management of the institution. 



" Chapter I. — The object and management of the institution. 



" Section 1. — The institute has for its purpose to communicate theoretical and 

 practical instruction in all that belongs to forest science to those who wish to 

 devote themselves to forestry, and to obtain the necessary education and 

 training for this. 



" Section 2. — As experimental ground for the exercise of the practical work 

 of forestry, there are appropriated Evois and Wesijako Crown Parks in Tavas- 

 tehusliin, and the school erected on this last through the care of the institute, 

 besides which the necessary botanical gardens, together with the plantation 

 of native and foreign trees, shall be created and maintained. 



" Section 3. — The institute shall be placed under the direction of a forest 

 bureau, whose duty it shall be to follow with attention the action of the 

 institution, and to arrange and conduct its business in conformity with these 

 rules, and the further prescriptions which may with this view be communi- 

 cated by the Imperial Senate. 



" Section 4. — The forest bureau shall inspect yearly the teaching of the 

 institution, and in conformity with this shall report the result to the imperial 

 senate ; and after the present regulations shall have been altered, they shall 

 send a plan or programme of the study proposed, exhibiting the duration of the 

 course of lectures, and the division of the subjects and hours of instruction 

 amongst the teachers. 



" Section 5. — It belongs to the director of the institute to watch over its 



