16 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



cultivate fnun 5^ to 28J acres of land, according to their grade. 

 The pay and lodging allowance of subordinates ranges from £18 to 

 £-12 a year; they receive from 17 to 25 loads of firewood, and are 

 allowed to cultivate from 4-| to 5h acres of land, according to grade. 

 The annual cost of the above establishment is about £93,550, or 

 about 6^d, per acre. 



The Inspectors receive as yearly pay, lodging, and office allow- 

 ance, from £180 to £204, with £80 in addition as travelling 

 allowance. 



The Assistant Inspectors receive from £80 to £112, with £56 as 

 travelling allowance. 



The scale of pay for officers in the State service corresponds with 

 that fixed, during the last century, for other officials of similar 

 rank ; but it is considered too low, and will probably be raised. 

 These officers are entitled to pensions under rules passed in 1885. 

 When necessary, officers and subordinates are accommodated with 

 houses in the forest, the number of buildings erected for this 

 purpose being as follows, viz. : 



1882 



Tlie service of the managers and guards employed under the 

 departmental administrative committees, is, like that of the State 

 officials, permanent, and under fixed rules. They cannot be dis- 

 charged except under a prescribed jjrocedure. The great private 

 proprietors usually pay their employes at a rate which is from 25 

 per cent, to 50 j^or cent, higher than that of corresponding grades 

 in the State service; but their appointments are not so well secured 

 to them, and they have no regular pensions to look forward to. 



In order to obtain an appointment as forest officer or manager in 

 any of the forests which are, by the provisions of section 17 of the 

 Forest Law, under the immediate control of the State, a candidate 

 must be a Hungarian subject, who has completed his studies at the 

 High School, and passed as Bachelor of Letters or Bachelor of 

 Science. He must either undergo the course of instruction at the 

 academy at Selmeczbanya, or pass the final examination there, or 

 be trained in some foreign school of the same class in which all 



