52 Germany. 



no pay connected with this additional duty and the 

 districts were too large, the execution of this supervision 

 was but indifferently performed. 



In 1749 a special city forest order placed the city 

 forests in Prussia under the provincial governments,, 

 requiring for their management the employment of a 

 forester and the inspection of his work by the provincial 

 forestmaster. 



5. Personnel. 



Although all this supervision was probably more or 

 less lax, the possibility of more general and incisive in- 

 fluence was increasing because the personnel to whom 

 such supervision could be intrusted was at last coming 

 into existence. 



The men in whose hands lay at the beginning of the 

 18th century the task of developing and executing forest 

 policies and of developing forestry practice came from 

 two very different classes. The work in the woods fell 

 naturally to the share of the huntsmen and forest guards, 

 who by their practical life in the woods had secured some 

 wood lore and developed some technical detail upon the 

 basis of empiric. These so-called hoJzgerechte Jaeger 

 (Woodcrafty hunters) prepared for their duties by plac- 

 ing themselves under the direction of an established 

 huntsman, who taught them what he knew about the 

 rules of the chase, while by questioning woodchoppers, 

 colliers, etc., and by their own observation the knowledge 

 of woodcraft was acquired. 



At the head of affairs stood the so-called cameralists 

 or chamber ofiicials, men who had prepared themselves 

 by the study of philosophy, law, diplomacy and political 



