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Dated for reboisemeut, although the owners of land have refused or do 

 refuse to take part in the company, unless proof is obtained that forest- 

 culture cannot be done without the aid of those dissenting, or of those 

 who are to be benefited by this cultivation. This right of setting lands 

 apart, however, shall not be exercised except in cases where those act- 

 ing own at least four-fifths of the lands embraced within the limits to be 

 planted. 



Art. 15. The provisions of articles 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of the law of May 

 29, 1873 (No. 1387, series 11), sball apply to companies formed under 

 article 14 of this law. 



Title III. — Penal provisions and forest-police regulations. 



Art. 16. The proprietor who shall clear or cut off wood, or who, having 

 cleared and cut off in violation of law, shall continue to cultivate a piece 

 of land submitted to these regulations, or who sball not execute the 

 labors mentioned in article 4, shall be subject to a fine of not exceeding 

 250 liras per hectare, and he shall be obliged to have his land replanted 

 within six months after rendering of judgment. 



Art. 17. If the land is not within six months after sentence suffi- 

 ciently prepared for sowing or replanting, or if the labors mentioned in 

 article 4 are not executed, the prefect of the province shall cause a 

 plan ot the necessary works to be prepared by a forest agent. Within 

 a mouth after notice of this proceeding the delinquent shall deposit with 

 the clerk of the prefectory a sum equal to estimated expense, and the 

 forest committee sball cause the works to be directly done. If this de- 

 posit is not made, or if the estimated cost is not sufficient, a recovery 

 may be had of the sum due, upon an order of the prefect, according to 

 the rules established for the recovery of direct assessments. 



Art. 18. The private owners of woods submitted to these foresc 

 restrictions, who shall violate the rules prescribed by the forest com- 

 mittee mentioned in article 4, shall be punished by a fine of double or 

 quadruple the value of the wood cut, or of the damage done. 



Art. 19. Administrators of official trusts shall incur the highest pen- 

 alty named when they render themselves liable b^' intentional violation 

 of the preceding article, and will be further liable to the penalties that 

 they would have incurred had they committed these acts for their per- 

 sonal gain. 



Art. 20. Transgressions mentioned in articles 16 and 18, committed 

 by persons other than proprietors or public officers, shall be punished 

 not only by the penalties specified in these articles, but also by personal 

 punishment inflicted under the general penal laws when these acts con- 

 stitute a crime within the "iueaning of these laws. The fines for offenses 

 mentioned in article 16 shall not be less than three-fifths of the greatest, 

 and for other offenses not less than two-thirds of the damage done to 

 contractors of cuttings, or those hiring pasturage, and generally to 

 those who had the right of the use of the woods. The fine shall not be 

 less than sextuple of the damage in the nurseries and sowings done by 

 the forest administration. 



Art. 21. The valuation of wood cut and of damage done shall be 

 made by the forest agents under rules that shall be prepared for gen- 

 eral regulation in the execution of the present law. The parties inter- 

 ested may be heard upon the estimate of the forest agents before the 

 judicial authorities. Beside the penalties provided in the i^roceding 

 article, the judgment may order the payment of damages to the benefit 

 of parties to whom they may be due. 



