250 France. 



by pasturing, the means allowed the administration 

 being too niggardly measured. 



The Forest Code of the home country and special 

 laws enacted from time to time applies. The ad- 

 ministration of the state and communal forest is 

 directly under the home department and is regulated 

 in similar manner. 



A re-organization and a special forest code for 

 Algiers was enacted in 1903. This legislation relies 

 still largely on the general principles of the Code of 

 1827. The most interesting features are the provision 

 for expropriation and addition to the state domain of 

 forests the preservation of which is of public interest, 

 and the rigorous forest fire legislation, which permits 

 the treatment of incendiaries as insurrectionists, makes 

 the extinction of forest fires a duty of the forest officials, 

 and provides the forcible establishment of fire lines 

 (rides) between neighbors. 



In the forests placed under the forestry regime, 

 permits from the governor-general are required for 

 clearing. For the administration of these properties, 

 the state receives ten per cent, of the gross yield. 

 Reforested hilltops or slopes and sand dunes are re- 

 lieved from taxes for 30 years, burnt areas for 10 years. 



In the other African possessions, unregulated ex- 

 ploitation of the tropical forests, largely for by- 

 products, like caoutchouc, kola, and fine furniture 

 woods, is still the order of the day, except in Mada- 

 gascar, which with 25 to 30 million acres of tropical 

 forest area, was, in 1900, provided with a forest ser- 

 vice, which is under the Minister of Colonies. Here, 



