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notify the communes and public bodies, as well as individuals, 

 by an extract of the imperial decree, concerning the indications 

 relating to the lands belonging to them. The act of notification 

 shall show the limit of time allowed for the work of reboise- 

 ment, and if there is occasion, the offer of aid from the admin- 

 istration on the advances it is disposed to make. 



" ARTICLE 7. If the lands included within the limits fixed 

 by the imperial decree belong to individuals, the latter are to 

 declare whether they will undertake to do the replanting 

 themselves ; and, if so, they are to be held to execute the 

 work within the time fixed by the decree. In case they 

 refuse or fail to perform agreement, proceedings may be had 

 for their expropriation, on the ground of public utility, ob- 

 serving the formalities prescribed under Title II. and fol- 

 lowing, of the law of May 3, 1841. The proprietor expro- 

 priated in the execution of this article has the right to re- 

 gain possession of his property after reboisement, subject to 

 payment of charges for expropriation, the cost of labors in 

 principal and interest. He may relieve himself of the price 

 of the labors by relinquishing half of the property. If the 

 proprietor wishes to obtain repossession, he should make a 

 declaration to the sub-prefect within five years after notice that 

 the work of reboisement has been finished, under penalty of 

 forfeiture of this right. 



" ARTICLE 8. If the communes or public bodies refuse to 

 execute these labors upon their lands, or if they are unable to 

 do it, the state may acquire, either amicably obtaining a part 

 of the lands which they will not or cannot replant, or by 

 assuming sole charge of the work. In the latter case, it will 

 retain the care and use of the lands until it is reimbursed its 

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