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during one year, obtained practical acquaintance with forest management and 

 forest measuring by some official on the forest establishment properly 

 appointed by the Forest Bureau. 



This certificate ought to contain some information as to the whole of the 

 forest work in which the candidate took part, together with proof under his 

 own hand that he can measure a field by means of the tables for land-measuring. 



The said certificate must be examined by the college of teachers, and thereon, 

 if they shall see fit, the candidate shall be admitted as a pupil into the Forest 

 Institute. 



In order that the Forest Bureau may be in a position to state how far excep- 

 tion may be allowed from the above-mentioned rule, the applicant must also 

 state his age. 



Section 15th. It is incumbent on pupils in the Forest Institute to lead a 

 correct moral life, to treat superiors with consideration, and obey their 

 orders, to wait on their instructions with attention and diligence, to carefully 

 execute the work which they receive to do, to preserve carefully such things 

 belonging to the Institute as may be entrusted to them, and they must 

 repay whatever they damage ; and in all things strictly conform to the laws 

 of the Institute. 



Section 16th. In case of the pupil not fulfilling what, according to the pre- 

 ceding sections, is incumbent upon him, and taking no heed of the warnings 

 given him by the director, such pupil may, after conference with the other 

 teachers, be expelled. 



Section 17th. In order to receive a proper certificate of dismission the pupil 

 must manifest in the public examination a well-marked acquaintance and ability 

 in the collective subjects of instruction mentioned in section 3rd, and must 

 have prepared a complete plan for the division of forests as well as for the 

 cutting of roads and the thinning of trees, and also for the laws of forest 

 cultivation. 



The certificate of dismission must be made out by the college of teachers, 

 according to the formula laid down by the Forest Bureau, and be handed to 

 the pupil by the director. 



Section 18th. The plantation keeper in the Institute who has been ap- 

 pointed to reside there shall place himself at the disposal of the director for 

 carrying out the instruction appointed by the Forest Bureau. 



Chapter II. District Forest Schools. 



Section 19th. The aim of these forest schools is through gratis instruction 

 to form good foresters. These schools stand under the oversight of the 

 Forest Bureau, and each of them under the visitation of the forest inspector 

 in whose district of service the school is situated ; and each forest school 

 be presided over by a president, who is at the same time the teacher of the 

 school, but for his assistance in the instruction and the corresponding 

 practical exercises a forest overseer is to be appointed. 



Section 20th. The estates proposed for these forest schools, in the public 

 forests, in different parts of the country, shall be furnished with lecture halls 

 and the needful houses for the president and the forest overseer, as also 

 with lodgings for a certain number of pupils. 



Section 21st. Instruction in the forest schools shall be communicated in the 

 following subjects: "Writing and the formation of a good running hand, 

 correct spelling as exercised by writing to dictation, arithmetic as far as the 

 rule of three and decimal fractions, together with a knowledge of the 

 Swedish system of money, weights, and measures ; 



