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ART. 9. > . . for: 



1. Cost of estimate made because of the sale. 



2. Maintenance of official marks during felling. 



3. Working plan of the forest after exploitation. 



PART II. EXPLOITATION AND REMOVAL 



ART. 10. Under the penalties given in Art. 40 of the Forest 

 Code of France, the exploitation and the removal over the en- 

 tire felling area must be completely finished within a period of 

 1 8 years counting from the auction day. The compartments 

 will be cut over in the order decided upon by the purchaser, 

 and will theoretically each correspond to a separate sale. Yet 

 several compartments may be exploited simultaneously, but the 

 logging of a compartment cannot be commenced until the 

 purchaser obtains from the inspector for this particular com- 

 partment a special cutting permit . . . stating that he has 

 complied with all the requirements which are set by Art. 18 of 

 the general circular. 



Dating from the delivery of this compartment permit, which 

 the purchaser must procure, there will be three years for the 

 felling and removal of the wood from the compartment and 

 under no circumstances can the time for removal exceed the 

 period of 18 years fixed above for the removal of the whole sale. 



On the other hand extensions of time may be granted, in 

 case of accident, for good and unforeseen causes, under the con- 

 ditions cited by Arts. 29 and 44 of the general circular; but 

 the aggregate of these extensions cannot in any case exceed two 

 years for any one compartment. 



The stumps shall be checked by compartments, in the order 

 of expiration of the term for felling figured for each from the 

 date of the cutting permit. 



ART. ii. The imprint of the federal marking hatchet on the 

 stumps of trees designated for felling must be pointed out by 

 the purchaser when the stumps are checked. 



If it is shown that these imprints have a tendency to become 



