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1 Chapter III. The pupils. 



' Section 13. Those who wish to enter the Institute as 

 pupils have, after the official notice of the vacant places in 

 the Institute has appeared in Finland's Allmanna Tidning, 

 to lodge before the 1st July with the Director a written 

 request accompanied by the following documents : 



' (a) A certificate of moral character from their minister. 



' (b) A medical certificate as to their bodily constitution 

 and their vaccination. 



' (c) A student's certificate from the Alexander Univer- 

 sity, or a certificate of completed study from any of the 

 country's public or private schools. Such pupils at these 

 as have finished their course are entitled to enter them- 

 selves for the students' examination at the university on 

 the ground of said certificate, and their possessing a good 

 knowledge of the mathematical sciences, together with a 

 sufficient acquaintance with land measuring and the duties 

 of a Forest-Master, or other authenticated certificate as to 

 a sufficient knowledge of the above-mentioned branches. 

 Together with these they are required to produce 



' (d) An engagement on the part of the parents or of 

 some other respectable person to be responsible for the 

 pupil's support in the Institute. 



' If the applicant be under age, these papers must be 

 accompanied by his parents' or guardian's written approval 

 of his intention to enter the Institute. 



' Section 14. The number of ordinary pupils shall be 

 determined by the Imperial Senate on the representation 

 of the Forest Bureau ; should persons desire to be admitted 

 to the Institute without any of the certificates mentioned 

 in rule 13 (e) provision is made for their going through 

 either a part of the course of study followed at the Insti- 

 tute, or the whole of the course if opportunity permits, on 

 the special representation of the Forest Bureau, with the 

 concurrence of the Imperial Senate, that these persons may 

 be received into the Institute as extraordinary pupils. The 

 Director is bound yearly before the 15th May to advertise in 

 the Allmanna Tidning respecting the vacant places for 



