•MG DISPCSAI. (»F WOOD. 



the folling-areas, l)ut with special marks. All the marked trees are 

 sold standing, as is usual in France, but the purchaser pays only 

 for the crowns of trees chosen for the Navy, excluding any boughs 

 which have been specially reserved. He then fells all the trees, and 

 a naval engineer examines those stems which had been specially 

 marked for the Navy, and then proceeds to convert them into the 

 necessary pieces and remove them to a sea-port. The price is fixed 

 for a period of five years at so much a cubic meter, and a current 

 account kept between the Navy and Forest Department. Boppe, 

 ojx cit., ]). -J-JS.— Tr.] 



(d) Wood required for Floating- Channels and Wood- Depots. — it 

 was formerly considered the duty of the State to maintain large 

 firewood-depots iu districts where there were no forests, and to 

 convey the wood there at its own charge. In order to carry- 

 out this object a special floating department was organised, 

 to which the necessary volume of v>'Ood was delivered from 

 the German State forests. Since means of communication 

 have been extended and with them the trade in firewood, the 

 necessity for the department has disappeared, and it has been 

 abolished. 



(e) Wood required for Sawmills. — There are several German 

 States and Communes owning sawmills, the management of 

 which is more or less independent of the Forest Department. 

 (For instance, Brunswick, Alsace aud Lorraine, Hannover, 

 Baden, &c.) 



(f) Wood given to R-ivileged Persons (Deputdtltolzer). — Under 

 this heading comes wood given as part of the salary of Govern- 

 ment servants ; in some States, as in Mecklenburg, inferior 

 firewood is also given gratis to the poor. 



Special orders are given by superior authority to the local 

 forest officials as regards the delivery of wood of the different 

 classes referred to above. 



4. l>isj)oS((l of ]Vo(>d 1)1/ Sale. 



All wood which is not required under any of the above head- 

 ings will be sold. The next section describes the different 

 modes of sale, the only point of interest here is into what 

 hands the wood should come after being sold. A distinction is 



