366 RECENT LEGISLATION IN PRUSSIA. 



Sec. 18. The transactioDs and debates pending the course of proceed- 

 ings, as well as the insertion in the cadastre, and the reports furnished 

 by the tribunals or other authorities, shall be exempt from stamp duties 

 and gratuities, and the actual expenses only shall be authorized. 



The commissioners, when not members of Ihe Tribunal of Forest Pro- 

 tection, and the experts, when called, in whatever concerns their ex- 

 penses and the cost of travel and sojourn, shall be paid in conformity 

 with the regulation of April 25, 1836, and the subsequent decisions that 

 may have been had upon this subject. 



No member of the tribunal, when appointed a commissioner, shall 

 claim repayment for traveling-expenses in fixing the regulation of cost. 



Sec. 19. The cost of necessary proceedings shall be defrayed by the 

 common treasury of the circle ; but, if the motion emanates from the 

 police authority of the country, it should be paid by the latter. It shall 

 be sui)ported by the author of the propositions alone whenever they 

 may be rejected or withdrawn; otherwise the regulation of costs shall 

 be fixed in conformity with the rules laid down in paragraphs 4 and 5 

 of the present law, relating to the payment of indemnities and expenses 

 occasioned by the aforesaid constructions. 



Sec. 20. The execution of regulations, in particular the apportionment 

 and collection of the contributions fixed upon for indemnities and ex- 

 penses of construction of works of protection, the payment of indemni- 

 ties, and of supervision of execution, the payment for works ordered, 

 arid the observation of prescriptions of regulation devolve upon the 

 president of the Tribunal of Forest Protection. 



Every reclamation against an order of the president, contrary to regu- 

 lations, should be filed within ten days after the notification of the 

 order for judgment by the tribunal. 



Sec. 21. In case of urgency, the president of the tribunal may, in the 

 public interest, and before any legal decision, take such measures as may 

 be neceissary to stop any enterprise which may augment the danger, by 

 modifying the working of the land. These orders should be taken in the 

 way of legal restraint, conformably to paragraphs 79 and 81 of the 

 royal ordinance of December 18, 1872. 



Every reclamation against the orders or penalties imposed for contra- 

 ventions may be filed with the tribunal of the administration within ten 

 days after notification. 



Sec. 22. Every subsequent modification of regulations should be pro- 

 posed by the parties interested, and will be under the same instructions 

 as in the case of a primary regulation. 



III. CONCERNING FOREST COMPANIES. 



Sec. 23. In cases where lands in forests, adjoining or surrounded by 

 others, cannot be conveniently worked except by a common association 

 of the proprietors, then, upon the proposition — 



(«) Of each individual proprietor; 



{b) Of the commune of the circle or bailage, or of a communal asso- 

 ciation of the same kind, upon the territory of which the lands are 

 located; or 



(c) Of the authority of the police of the country; 



Tlie proprietors in question may unite to form a forest company, for 

 the purpose — 



1. Of regulating and obtaining a common protection, and of taking 

 the measures necessary to secure a convenient working of the lands of 

 the company; 



