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ther notice a yearly payment of 800 marks, which payment, 

 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 obliga- 

 tion to be at the disposition of the Forest Administration, 

 instead of the regulation payment now made of four marks 

 a day: it being provided that the Senate, when the 

 number of the forest conductors or other circumstances 

 make it possible to reduce these payments, may bring the 

 matter again before us. 



' Finally, We leave 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 2d, 1874*. According to His Imperial 

 Majesty's own determination, and in his high name, 

 the Executive Senate for Finland. (Sd.) R. Furn- 

 hielm, H. Molander, A. Mechelin, T. H. Thilen, 

 Oscar Norrman, F. Walmquist. 



'Rules laid down by His Imperial Majesty for Evois 

 Forest Institute, given in Helsingfors, May 2d, 1874 : 



' We, Alexander II., &c., make known in accordance 

 with the special decree already issued, that Evois Forest 

 Institute shall for the future obtain an altered organisa- 

 tion, 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 Insti- 

 tution. 



' Section 1. The Institute has for its purpose to com- 

 municate 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 educa- 

 tion and training for this. 



' Section 2. As experimental ground for the exercise of 

 the practical work of forestry, there are appropriated Evois 



