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is to be charged to the individual on the basis of a 

 twenty years' service, so that if a forester or under 

 forester, &c., leave the service, he will be charged 

 for the value of the house for as many years as he 

 has not served of the number of twenty years; 

 and the new comer is bound to pay his prede- 

 cessor, who has vacated by reason of death or 

 otherwise, for the remaining years up to the full 

 twenty years. For this reason the forester is 

 bound to give to the Palata of Imperial domains 

 an account of the sum expended in building his 

 house. 



Note. The foresters, &c.. of the Baltic provinces, 

 are not subject to these rules, as houses, &c., are 

 furnished to them on other conditions. 



369. The cultivation of the fields and hay fields of the 



foresters and under foresters is the duty of the 

 forest warders, inasmuch as these warders seldom 

 cultivate more than one desatin for themselves, 

 but the work of ploughing, reaping, and har- 

 vesting cannot be executed by the warders alone. 

 Therefore the Palata of Imperial domains is 

 required to calculate, on the basis of the amount of 

 land and the number of forest warders, how much 

 land each forester and under forester has unculti- 

 vated, in order that the necessary workmen may 

 be sent from the government farms, which receive 

 assistance in timber and firewood. On the basis 

 of this calculation of ploughed land, hay-fields, 

 and corn lands, the Palata sues for and allots all 

 the work and working days between the govern- 

 ment farms in proportion to the number of 

 peasants' houses. 



370. The warders on horseback mounted warders are 



bound to till their own fields. 



371. The Palata of Imperial domains is diligently to see 



that foresters and under foresters do not exact too 

 many duties according to schedule from the 



