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vinces who desire to profit from the arrangement and those of the 

 municipahties, corporations and private owners who desire it. 



The State is divided into four forest zones, and each of these 

 into districts and sections as needed for administrative purposes. 

 All government timberlands of commercial value are provision- 

 ally reserved until they can be mapped and finally reserved. The 

 final reservation is to include the mountain forests, those needed 

 for protection of soil, dunes, torrents, rivers, watersources. 



The exploitation is carried on under timber licenses secured 

 by sealed bids, a concession covering not more than 25 acres and 

 for not longer than 10 years at a ground rent which is to be not 

 less than 10% of the value of the wood cut at the place of ship- 

 ment. 



The Forest Service is placed under the Direction of Lands and 

 Colonization, the Minister of Agriculture with the assistance of a 

 Forest Commission being in charge of this Direction. The Forest 

 Service comprises also a section of fisheries, and of chase and of 

 fish culture. It is under a Director, under whom a chief forester 

 and seven inspectors are placed, altogether 30 employes form the 

 main ofifice with a salary list of $4370 per month, the head being 

 paid $850 (silver) per month. The section of sea fisheries and 

 chase is placed under a chief with a zoologist, two naturalists and 

 a number of minor assistants, altogether 16 employes. The 

 section of fish culture is separately organized under the same 

 chief, however, and has charge of the river fisheries. 



The total budget of the Department of Agriculture in 1906 

 amounted to nearly 5 million dollars, one fifth of which sum was 

 for the forest service. 



An arborday — the 9th of July — is also legalized. 



Revue des Eaux et Forets. Sep. 15, 1912. Pp. 545-550. 



Mr. D. E. Hutchins, in his report, states 



Aspects that the total area of indigenous forests in 



of Cape Colony, from Cape Town to Natal, 



South African is estimated at 500,000 acres or 810 square 



Forestry miles, or | percent of the total area of the 



Colony. All except about 30,000 acres of 



this is Government forest worked systematically by the Forest 



Department. These forests are estimated to yield from 6 to 10 



