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business, to see that the plan (if'ihe instruction is carried out, to control its 

 management, and together with the teaching body to exercise discipline, and 

 to carry out the arrangements as to the teaching and pupils, to engage and 

 to discharge the servants of the institution, to fulfil the duty of head forest 

 master in the parks of the institution, and to participate in imparting 

 the instruction given. 



" Chapter II. — The teachers. 



"Section 6. — It belongs to the ordinary teacher in the institute, besides 

 carrying out the instruction in the subjects according to section 24, to exercise 

 the function of secretary and librarian ; and besides attending to the manage- 

 ment of the cash in the institute for Evois and Wesijako Crown parks, he 

 must keep the accounts of the institution. 



" Section 7. — The forest master for Evois and Wesijako Crown parks is bound 

 in return for receipt of the appointed sum laid down in the arrangements of the 

 institution, to communicate instruction in the institution in the branches of 

 knowledge mentioned in section 24, and together with the others, to initiate 

 the pupils in the purely practical work of forest master. Further, the forest 

 master has on demand, and on receipt of prescribed payment, to communicate 

 to the foresters of landed proprietors instruction in forest management. 



" Section 8. — Those seeking the office of teacher in the institution must have 

 a general humanistic culture, and must have gone through a complete course 

 in a Finnish or well-known foreign forest institution, and must possess more- 

 over appropriate skill in the subjects taught by him. When the office of 

 teacher is sought by a person whose practical skill cannot be otherwise con- 

 firmed, he may, if it be judged necessary, be appointed provisionally for a trial 

 period of at least two years, during which he shall have the benefit of all the 

 privileges of the office, and thereafter if his services be found satisfactory he 

 may be confirmed in the office. 



*' Section 9. — The director shall be named and removed by Us on the mention 

 of the imperial senate, but the teacher shall be appointed by the senate accord- 

 ing to the manner already prescribed. 



" Section 10.— The director and the teacher shall be sworn into office before 

 the chief director of the forest bureau. 



" Section 11. — In the absence of the director, or if he is otherwise prevented 

 from fulfilling his duties, the forest master shall represent him in the duties of 

 his office. In case of interruption of the duties of the teacher or forest master 

 for a short time by illness or otherwise the director is bound so to act that 

 the pupils may be in some way properly employed. But if the interruption 

 continues more than fourteen days, it is to be reported to the forest bureau, in 

 order that proper arrangements may be made. 



" Section 12. — Director and teacher are entitled to similar pensions for 

 themselves, their wives and children, as other officials of the same standing. 



" Chapter III.— The pupils. 



" Section 13. — Those who wish to enter the institute as pupils have, after the 

 official notice of the vacant places in the institute has appeared in Finland's 

 Allmanna Tidning, to lodge before the 1st July with the director, a written 

 request accompanied by the following documents : — 



" A. A certificate of moral character from their minister. 



'* B. A medical certificate as to their bodily constitution and their vaccination. 



'' C. A student's certificate from the Alexander University, or a complete cer- 

 tificate of dismission from any of the country's public or private schools. Such 

 pupils at these as have finished their course are entitled to enter themselves 

 for the students' examination at the university on the ground of said certifi- 



