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advances, in principal and interest. Nevertheless, the com- 

 mune shall enjoy the right to pasturage on the lands replanted 

 as soon as it is found beyond risk of injury. 



" ARTICLE 9. Communes and public bodies may in all cases 

 exonerate themselves from repayment to the state, by relin- 

 quishing one-half of the replanted lands. This abandonment 

 should be made under loss of right of doing so, within ten 

 years from notice of the completion of the works. 



" ARTICLE 10. The sowing or planting cannot be made on 

 more than a twentieth in one year of the surface to be planted, 

 unless a resolution of the municipal councils authorizes it to 

 be done to a greater extent. 



" ARTICLE 11. Forest-guards of the state may be appointed 

 for the care of the sowing or planting done within the bounda- 

 ries fixed by imperial decrees. Injuries proved by these guards, 

 within the extent of these limits, shall be prosecuted in the 

 same manner as if done in woods subject to forest regulation. 

 The execution of the sentence is to be in accordance with arti- 

 cles 209, 211, and 212, and paragraphs 1 and 2 of article 210 

 of the Forest Code. 



"ARTICLE 12. Paragraph 1 of article 224 of the Forest 

 Code is not applicable to reboisement done with aid or pre- 

 miums from the state, in execution of the present law. The 

 owners of lands replanted with aid or premiums of the state 

 may not pasture their cattle without special license from the 

 forest administration, until the time when such woods shall be 

 recognized by said administration as sufficiently protected. 



" ARTICLE 13. A regulation of the public administration 

 shall determine (1) the measures to be taken for fixing the 

 boundaries indicated in article 5 of the present law ; (2) the 



