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which may occur on the land reaches 250 yards beyond 

 the limits of the purchaser's territory, unless he gives 

 proper warning and tries to find out the perpetrators 

 of the same. Legal proceedings are brought before 

 the courts of correction, and are greatly simplified, 

 as is customary in Germany. 



The public forests may not be sold, mortgaged or 

 divided, and the product can be sold only through 

 state foresters. As in the olden times, one-quarter 

 of the stands in the timber forests, and one-fourth 

 of the felling budget in the coppice is placed in reserve 

 for urgent or unforeseen needs. 



In addition to these and other restrictions which 

 refer to the public forests, there are prescriptions 

 which apply to all woods in general. All foresters 

 employed, even on private properties, have sheriff's 

 power. Walking in the woods with axe, saw and wagon 

 outside of the public roads which pass through them, 

 is forbidden; the making of fires is forbidden; the 

 making of fire lines, 20 yards wide, between private 

 forests can be enforced by either owner, and railroads, 

 along their rights of way, are required to make such. 

 By special law of 1893, the setting of fires even within 

 200 yards of a wood is forbidden in certain regions, 

 and the punishment of infractions of these laws is 

 very severe. 



The rights of user are gauged by the administration 

 according to the possible yield, even in private forests, 

 and are surrounded by many other restrictions; the 

 wood falling under such rights of user is cut and de- 

 livered by the forest agents, and the rights can be 

 forcibly extinguished by exchange of territory. 



