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prefecture and endeavours hard for the guidance and encouragement of silk i: dustries. 



V. PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE PREVENTION 

 OF CALAMITIES. 



The official Provisions relating to calamity prevention in connection with agriculture are 

 mainly as follows : — 



A. The Prevention of Flood. — The flood-prevention work is chiefly under charge of the 

 Home Department. The Government maintains offices for superintending embankment and other 

 engineering works, which are carried on at the places of great importance, and, the embankm.ent 

 work, and, also, for performing investigations about the riparian and other undertakings. 

 Furthermore, the Government has legislated the Riparian Works Law so as to have strict control 

 and protection any kind of riparian work. And, also, it has promulgated the Forestry Law and 

 the Law of Alluvial Prevention and at the same time, established the Forestry and Rain Obser- 

 vatories for the study and prevention of the washouts of sands and floods. Also, it issued the 

 Regulations of Water Corporation by which the guilds are obliged to take charge of embank- 

 ments, dredging and prevention works of sand washouts. 



B. Prevention and Extermination of Plant Disease and Injurious Insects. — The existing Law 

 of Prevention and Extermination of Injurious Insects is applicable to prevention and extermination 

 of the bacteria and other injurious animals, besides insect. In accordance with this law, the Gov- 



