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the curriculum, the division of the subjects of instruction 

 amongst the teachers, the course of lessons, and the proper 

 hours, shall be, on the representation of the Forest 

 Administration, determined by the Senate. 



'5. As a condition for reception into the Institute, there 

 is required a certificate of good character and Christian 

 knowledge, and either a student's certificate from the 

 Alexander University, or a full certificate of dismission 

 with approval from some one of the public or private 

 schools of the country. Pupils, on the ground of such cer- 

 tificate, have to record themselves as prepared to undergo 

 the student's examination, and prove then that they 

 possess a well-grounded acquaintance with the mathema- 

 tical sciences, together with the knowledge prescribed for 

 Land-Surveyors and Forest-Masters, or they must produce 

 other well-authenticated evidence of their well-grounded 

 knowledge in the last-mentioned branches of science. 



' 6. Every pupil shall at the time of his inscription pay 

 into the Institute 40 marks ; but he shall receive for this 

 free instruction, lodging, and heating. 



' 7. The Institute shall organise two classes, so arranged 

 that a complete course shall be gone through in two years. 



' 8. A pupil may not remain in the Institution longer 

 than four years. The lectureships held by the three 

 ordinary lecturers who have hitherto been employed in 

 the Institute, and whose office has been abolished by this 

 decree, shall not be continued after the decease of the 

 present holders; but these are nevertheless bound until 

 they obtain another situation, or go in any other way out 

 of service, to communicate instruction, each in his own 

 branch, to the pupils of the Institution who present them- 

 selves for this end, with the approval of the Director, to 

 obtain the said instruction along with the above-mentioned 

 practical course. In connection with this, We have, upon 

 the said representation of the Senate, chosen to allow that 

 the highest three of the Forest Conductors who have gone 

 through Evois Forest Institute, and by preference those 

 who have distinguished themselves, shall receive till fur- 



