158 THE FOREST LANDS OF FINLAND. 



Institution; in regard to which examination a month 

 previously an advertisement shall, by the Director's care, 

 be inserted in the official gazette of the country ; and a 

 special notice of the examination shall be sent in to the 

 Director of the Agricultural Department of the Imperial 

 Senate. In this examination, which should not extend 

 over three days, questions shall be put to the pupils in all 

 the theoretical and practical subjects of instruction in 

 which they have been instructed during the course of the 

 year, and the pupils ought also to give proof at the same 

 time of their acquaintance with, and their expertness in, 

 the work of a practical forester. 



' Section 28. The pupils in the second or higher class 

 who wish to obtain a certificate of study from the 

 Institution shall, before the public examination takes 

 place, be subjected to examination by each teacher. 



' Section 29. Immediately after the close of the examina- 

 tion the Director and Teacher shall come together in the 

 presence of the Chief Director or his deputy for the 

 consideration and determination of the following matters: 

 1st, what character shall be inscribed on the certificate of 

 each pupil ; 2nd, which pupils shall go out of the Institution 

 either with a complete diploma as forest conductor, or 

 merely with certificates of study and progress ; 3rd, which 

 pupils can be removed from the first to the second class. 

 The determination come to shall be inserted in the 

 matriculation register, and publicly read out to the 

 pupils. 



' Section 30. The diploma for the degree of Forest Con- 

 ductor shall be written out and subscribed by the Director 

 and by both the Teachers, and must contain the results 

 given as above of his examinations. To the pupil who 

 wishes to leave the Institution without having been 

 approved by public examination, the Director and both 

 of the Teachers shah 1 conjointly give him a certificate, 

 wherein in accordance with the matriculation register 

 shall be set down in full what knowledge he brought with 

 him at his entrance into the Institution, the time he has 



