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clared null and void, except in the case of an appeal from the 

 purchaser, if it takes place, against the officials or officers who 

 shall have ordered or authorized such fellings. 



This special decree shall be inserted in the law-notices. 



SECTION HI. AUCTIONS OF BARK, FELLING AREAS, AND 

 SALES BY AGREEMENT 



ART. 1 8. No ordinary or extraordinary sale shall take place 

 in the State woods, except by public auction, announced at 

 least fifteen days in advance, by notices affixed in the principal 

 towns of the department, in the commune where the woods 

 are situated, in the neighbouring communes, and in the place 

 where the auction is held. 



The Waters and Forests Service shall be authorized by special 

 decree of the Governor General of Algeria, to make at one and 

 the same auction, the sale of several felling areas of the same 

 cutting series, on condition that the periods for felling and for 

 payment shall not exceed five years. 



At the completion of the operations, all the road and canal 

 making and all the bridges or tunnels built for transport or 

 for felling purposes shall become the property of the State 

 without any indemnity whatever. 



ART. 19. Sales by mutual agreement can always be author- 

 ized in the following cases: 



1. If there is an appeal of urgency on account of acci- 



dental or unforeseen needs. 



2. When forest products could not or cannot be sold by 



means of public auction. 



ART. 20. Any sale, concluded otherwise than by public 

 auction outside of the cases provided for in the preceding article, 

 shall be considered as a secret sale and declared null and void. 



ART. 21. Any sale, although transacted by public auction, 

 shall be declared null and void in the same way, if it has not 

 been preceded by public notices as prescribed under Art. 18, 

 or if it has been made in other places, or on another day than 

 those which shall have been indicated on the notices already 

 published, or on the notices of withdrawal. 



