164 FORESTRY IN SPAIN. 



Having concluded their studies, and spent some time 

 in practical work in a forestal district, the students then 

 receive the appointment of forest engineer. 



The salaries of the six grades of forest engineers are 

 respectively 12,500, H0,000, 7,500, 6,500, 5000, and 4000 

 pesetas or francs. In field work the inspectors have also an 

 allowance of 25 francs a day; chief engineers one of 20 francs; 

 engineers of first class and second class one of 15 francs or 

 pesetas. 



Spain is divided into 46 forestal districts; three less 

 than the number of provinces and departments. The 

 forests in each of these are under the charge of a Chief 

 Engineer. Besides the forestal district court there is a Junta 

 Facultativa, or Professional Council, composed of eighteen 

 inspectors ; the Commission of forestal flora ; that of a 

 forestal map, and another of the catalogue of forests 

 reserved from alienation ; one of replenishing exhausted 

 forests ; and one of the Sierra de Guadarama. 



For conductingthe studies in the School there areappointed 

 a Director, who is head of the school ; ten professors of the 

 corps of engineers ; two assistants, who must also be 

 engineers ; and to these are joined the following subor- 

 dinates: a collector, preparer, and conservator of objects 

 of natural history ; an official assistant secretary ; an 

 official assistant librarian; two clerks; a steward; a resident 

 in charge of the school forest ; a porter ; three servitors ; 

 necessary warders and sub-warders for the protection of 

 the land and mountains appropriated to the service of the 

 school ; and labourers and peasants required for work on 

 the same. 



The professors, previous to appointment, must each have 

 completed five years of active service in the Corps of Forest 

 Engineers ; the assistant professors must have completed 

 two years of such service ; and of the Director of the School 

 it is required that he must have attained to the position of 

 an Inspector in the corps. 

 They all continue to receive the salary attached to their 



