EXPLOITATION 169 



Nevertheless the aforesaid securities may be dispensed with 

 if they present other securities recognized as solvent. 



ART. 32. The sureties are liable jointly and severally and 

 in the same manner, for the payment of damages, refunds, and 

 fines that the purchaser may have incurred. 



SECTION IV. EXPLOITATION 



ART. 33. After the auction or the approval of the sale by 

 agreement no change can be made in the location of the felling 

 area, and no tree or portion of a tree shall be added thereto 

 under any pretext whatever under penalty to the purchaser 

 or beneficiary of the sale, of a fine equal to three times the 

 value of the wood not comprised in the auction or sale, without 

 renouncing the claims on the restitution of the wood, or of 

 its value. 



The provisions are applicable to cork and to tan-bark. The 

 officers of the Waters and Forests who shall have permitted or 

 tolerated such additions or changes shall be fined in the same 

 manner, and shall be liable to prosecution and penalties for 

 malpractice and speculation, if there has been any. 



ART. 34. The purchasers by auction 6 or by agreement shall 

 not commence logging or felling areas or removal before obtain- 

 ing a written permit to fell from the local officer of Waters and 

 Forests, under penalty of prosecution for trespass. 



ART. 35. The purchaser by auction or by agreement may 

 have an agent or sales-guard, who shall be approved of by the 

 inspector or agent of Waters and Forests holding the office of 

 " Chief of Service," and shall be sworn before the justice of 

 the peace. 



If the felling area or areas that the sales-guard is charged 

 to watch are situated in the districts of several justices of the 

 peace, the oath delivered before one of them shall be registered 

 at the record-office of the other justices of the peace. 



This sales-guard can draw up reports in regard to the sale 

 and within a hundred-metre zone around it. 



6 Literally: "The highest bidders or beneficiaries of sales by agreement." 



