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2. Lands covered with thin soil. 



3. Lands covered with a rather poor soil. 



4. Along the margins of all rivers, wherever 

 the land is not actually required for purposes of 

 roads or other public uses. 



5. On the sides of all mountain-slopes, where 

 the soil is of the proper character. 



6. On the slopes of all mountains subject to 

 avalanches. 



The following translation of the French laws of 

 1860 for reforestation is taken from the report 

 of the United States Commissioners for 1877,* 

 page 338 : 



FRENCH CODE OF BEBOISEMENT OF MOUNTAINS, JULY 

 28, 1860. 



"ARTICLE 1. Subventions may be allowed to communes 

 and public bodies, or to individuals, for replanting lands on 

 the tops or slopes of mountains, 



" ARTICLE 2. These aids may consist either in the delivery 

 of seeds, or plants, or in premiums in money. In those given 

 by reason of the work done for the general good, and in cases 

 of communes and public bodies, regard is to be had to their 

 resources, and the sacrifices they must make, and to their need, 

 as also to the sums given by general councils for reboisement. 



* Reprinted, by permission, from a " Report upon Forestry," 

 1876, by Franklin B. Hough. Washington: Government 

 Printing-Office, 1878. Pp. 649. 



