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ests officer in charge by contractors and workmen agreed upon and when he chooses. 

 The purchasers will pay the contractors and laborers on sight of the certificates which 

 will be issued by this agent, and which, duly receipted by the assignees, will form a 

 release. The payment must be made by the purchaser within 15 days counting from the 

 delivery of the reported receipt of the labor and materials. 



Art. 62. Nevertheless, so far as communal felling areas are concerned, the sales 

 circulars can require the immediate payment for all material and labor at the depository 

 of the communal collector, and the receipts for these payments must then be presented 

 to the Waters and Forests officer in charge along with the papers enumerated in Art. 18. 

 The municipal collector will pay the assignees directly upon sight of any order issued by 

 the mayor upon the production of a receipt showing the material or labor has been 

 received, signed by the local Waters and Forests agent, and countersigned by the officer 

 in charge. 



Art. 68. The purchasers are also obliged : (a) To dig, level, replant or sow areas 

 occupied by their huts or workshops ; (6) to repair the lanes or ditches crossing or bound- 

 ing the felling areas; (c) to reestablish boundary pillars, enclosures, posts, walls, fences, 

 etc., damaged or destroyed because of logging or hauling wood. 



Art. 64- If the purchasers fail to live up to the obligations enumerated in Arts. 59, 

 61, and 63 of Part VII it will be done at their cost under the direction of the Waters and 

 Forests Service, in conformity with the provisions of Art. 41 of the Forest Code. 



PART VIII. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 



Art. .65. The sales agent which the purchaser may have, in conformity with Art. 

 31 of the Forest Code, cannot be the kinsman or related by marriage to the guard of 

 the beat, nor to the local agents. He must be agreed upon by the Waters and Forests 

 officer in charge and sworn before the justice of the peace. 



Art. 66. The purchasers must: (a) Refrain from working laborers, lumberjacks, 

 and teamsters Sundays or holidays; this rule may be waived in virtue of an authorization 

 given by the Waters and Forests officer in charge, (b) Not employ foreign workmen 

 except in the proportion which shall be fixed by the special sales clauses. 



Each (original) purchaser must besides when working Federal forests, place or cause 

 to be placed under the regime of the law of April 9, 1898, all lumberjacks working in 

 the felling areas either when they are doing the logging themselves, or when it is being 

 done through contractors or when the felling areas may have been resold before ex- 

 ploitation began. 



When repeated violations of the provisions of this article may have been proven 

 against any purchaser, the Waters and Forests director general may decree his temporary 

 or permanent exclusion from the auctions of felling areas of State wood, without prejudic- 

 ing suits which may be brought against him. 



Art. 67. The purchasers as well as their foremen, employees, lumberjacks, work- 

 men, and teamsters cannot let their dogs run loose in the forests. Dogs guarding huts, 

 workshops, or yards must always be tied or shut up. 



Art. 68. The purchaser will conform, besides, to the special provisions of the Forest 

 Code and to the ordinance of August 1, 1827, which concerns him. 



Art. 69. Every violation of the conditions of the sale, for which an exemption is 

 not given by the present "circular" or the Forest Code, will require the payment of 10 

 francs by right of civil damage, besides the stamp costs and the cost of registering the 

 brief of proof, without prejudicing civil punitive suits which may be entered. 



Approved May 29, 1909, by the Secretary of Agriculture. 





