FOREST ADMINISTRATION. 265 



of the St Petersburg Institute, and these may 

 serve up to grade of Lieutenant-Colonel. 



364, All the governments constituting Courland are divided 



into twenty-nine forestries. To each is attached 

 a forester, two under foresters, according to size of 

 district, and two or three warders on horseback. 

 The foresters are appointed by the forest depart- 

 ment of Imperial Domains on recommendation of 

 Palata ; the rest are appointed and dismissed on 

 option of Palata. 



365. Forest warders are appointed to watch over the con- 



servation and security of government forests ; and 

 these are elected from holders of government 

 dairies or farms situated within the limits of the 

 district. The number of these to be fixed by 

 Palata of government domains, subject to approval 

 of local governor, in proportion as lands are 

 planned and mapped out, and the situation 

 becomes permanent ; and in order not to render 

 the situation complicated, they are to be excluded 

 from register of proprietors, for the time being, and 

 to be subject to the foresters, whose fields and 

 meadows they are required to till and cultivate. 

 In this office are to be placed only the best, 

 sober, and best behaved peasants, who are 

 irremovable from their position, and can only lose 

 their situation through bad behaviour and faults, 

 in which case their place is to be filled by others, by 

 arrangement of the Palata with the occupant for 

 the time being, and on the approval of the local 

 governor of the government. 



The forest warders pay in the government 

 taxes to the forester, and the money due to the 

 owner for the time being they pay to the latter by 

 inventory the so-called wakengeld which money, 

 on the separation of the forest warders from the 

 dairies, is not to be deducted from the inventory ; 

 and the foresters pay over, or send those monies 

 to where they belong. 



