720 Forestry Quarterly. 



revenue so far does not exceed $80,000, but in a few years it may 

 be ten times as much. Since the home country will be called upon 

 to help in the development of the colony, it should be definitely set- 

 tled that the home government will not abandon this source of 

 revenue. 



It appears that the new governor — governors are always chang- 

 ing and anxious to introduce new ways — in his budget makes 

 no allowance for the interests of the home country, but with 

 a free hand distributes directly as a subvention the revenue to the 

 different provinces in the Union, contrary to the orders of the 

 home government. 



Le Service Forestier en Indo-Chine. Revue des Eaux et Forets. July i, 

 1912. Pp. 395-397- 



It is astonishing to read in a volume of laws 

 Forestry published in 1901 at Buenos xA^yres, that as 



in early as 1827 a decree for the reservation of 



Argentine all public timberlands was issued and a pro- 



ject was to be elaborated by the Topographic 

 Survey for the utilization of the woods. Nothing more is noted 

 until 1880, when an edict to stop irresponsible cutting of timber 

 on unlicensed lands was issued, this and other subsequent edicts 

 showing that it was difficult to cope with this abuse of the public 

 domain. In 1892, in the financial budget, forest inspectors are 

 mentioned attached to the Bureau of Lands and Colonization, and 

 since 1900 several decrees constitute forest reservations. In 

 1903, the "law on lands" prescribes that areas stocked with build- 

 ing timber shall not be sold or rented but are to be reserved for 

 forest purposes. Every purchaser of government lands is to 

 plant 100 trees for every 6 acres but a payment of 50 cents per 

 tree releases from this obligation. 



In the same year a forest service was organized, and in 1905 

 measures against forestfires were inaugurated and every limit 

 holder in the forests was obliged to replant two trees of the same 

 species for every one cut, the plants being furnished by the 

 forest service, and to care for and replace lost trees under the 

 superintendence of the Inspector General of Forests. 



The final comprehensive law of 1906 places under the forest 

 law all wooded areas belonging to the State, those of the pro- 



