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Forests Service without prejudicing the rights of the public 

 prosecutor. 



ART. 140. Before final judgment has been delivered the 

 Waters and Forests Service is authorized to compromise tres- 

 passes and offences, for which it undertakes to prosecute in 

 virtue of the preceding article. 



Even after judgment has been delivered, it is also authorized 

 to compromise civil suits and fines. 



ART. I50. 25 All actions and prosecutions undertaken at the 

 request of the Waters and Forests Service are brought before 

 the police courts, or the justice of the peace, according to the 

 jurisdiction as determined by the decrees of Aug. 19, 1854, 

 March 29, 1902, and May 29, 1902. 



ART. 152. The Waters and Forests employees have the right 

 to present the case before the court and are expected to support 

 their own conclusions. 



ART. 161. The Waters and Forests Service officers can, in 

 the name of the Service, lodge an appeal against the sentences, 

 and appeal against decrees and sentences of last resort, but 

 they cannot withdraw their appeals without the special author- 

 ization of the Governor General, 



ART. 162. The right given to the Waters and Forests. Service 

 and to its officers to go beyond sentences and decrees by appeal, 

 or by recourse to the supreme court, is independent of the same 

 privilege, which is granted by law to the public prosecutor, who 

 can always avail himself of it, even when the Service or its 

 officers shall have acquiesced in the sentences and decrees. 



Re examination. 



ART. 141. The officers and employees of the Waters and 

 Forests investigate and prove the trespasses and offences as 

 follows: The officers over the whole territory for which they 

 are commissioned, and the employees, within the jurisdiction of 

 the court in which they have taken oath. 



ART. 142. The employees are authorized to seize cattle which 

 are trespassing, and implements, wagons, and teams of tres- 



26 To secure a more logical arrangement of subject matter the numerical order 

 of the code has been somewhat modified. 



