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ceedings mentioned in the present article shall be charged to the state 

 account. 



Art. 8. The forest administration shall, as soon as these decisions 

 are made, publish in each commune of the province tables of the 

 woods and lauds placed under these regulations. Within two years after 

 this publication those interested may apply to the committee to ask for 

 their release. The committee shall ascertain by an examination of the 

 places, and shall decide upon the request. The cost of ascertaining 

 shall be paid by those interested. 



Aet. 9. When,inconsequenceofworksof conservation or repair deemed 

 sufficient for this end, or from any other reason, the causes for which 

 a tract of land have been submitted to the operation of this law have 

 ceased, the committee, either upon its own accord, or upon a request of 

 interested parties, shall decide after due investigation upon clearing it 

 from these restrictive regulations. 



Art. 10. All persons interested shall have a right to appeal from the 

 decisions of the committee to the council of state, who shall decide after 

 hearing the observations of the forest council, and if necessary those of 

 the councils of public works and of health. 



Title II. — Reboisement. 



Art. 11. The Ministry of Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce, the 

 provinces and the communes, for the purpose of maintaining the soil, 

 and of regulating water-courses, may either jointly, or without consult- 

 ing the others, undertake the reboisement of lands submitted to regu- 

 lation. 



The direction of works of reboisement undertaken at the expense of 

 the government, the provinces, or the communes, is intrusted to the 

 forest committee. A section in the appropriations to the Ministry of 

 Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce shall provide for the cost of 

 reboisement made on state account. 



Art. 12. The State, the provinces, and the communes are authorized 

 to proceed according to modes established by existing laws for the set- 

 ting apart, upon the ground of public utility, the lands above mentioned. 



The proprietor, on his part, shall have the right of cultivating in a 

 manner that may satisfy the object of the present law the land desig- 

 nated as under regulation, provided that he makes a declaration before 

 the beginning of his labors that he will undertake them within six 

 months, and that he will finish them within the time that may be fixed 

 by the forest committee. 



The forest administration shall be authorized, under appropriations 

 made for this object, to acquire vacant lands, either for reboisement or 

 for sale, when the purchaser will take charge of reboisement. 



Art. 13. The proprietors of lands submitted to forest obligation may 

 form a company for the purpose of replanting their lands, and for their 

 preservation, and for the protection of their rights. The formation of 

 these companies may also be ordered by judicial authority, upon the re- 

 quest of a majority of those interested, when needed for the maintenance 

 and defense of their common rights. The dissenting owners may free 

 themselves from this obligation, by ceding their lands to the company at 

 an estimated price, and in this case the latter are bound t^ purchase 

 them. 



Art. 14. When the matter relates simi)ly to the work of reboisement, 

 the company shall have a right to proceed according to the method laid 

 down by the law to the setting apart of the lands within the limits desig- 



