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Art. 3. The subordinate force is recruited according to 

 state regulations. Natives who have served in the French 

 Army or Civil Service, and the sons of the native employees, 

 can be admitted as native forest guards when twenty-two 

 years of age if they can show a knowledge of the French language; 

 they will be nominated by the Governor General of Algeria. 



Art. 4. An appointment in the Waters and Forests Service * 

 is inconsistent with any other, either administrative or legal. 



Art. 5. The officers and employees of the Waters and 

 Forests Service can only enter into office after having taken 

 oath before their home district court, and after having had 

 their commission and the certificate of their oath registered 

 at the record office of the district court, under whose juris- 

 diction they will exercise their duties. 



In the event of a change of residence, which will place them 

 under another jurisdiction of the same standing, another oath 

 need not be taken. 



Art. 6. The imprints on the marking hatchets, or instru- 

 ments employed in marking trees, etc., used by the Waters 

 and Forests officers and employees shall be registered at the 

 record office as follows: 



Marks of marking hatchets or those with which officers and 

 employees are provided: at the record office of the district 

 court under whose jurisdiction they will exercise their duties. 



Those of the standard national marking hatchet: at the 

 record office of the district court, and at the court of appeals. 



Part III. — State Forests 



SECTION I. — boundaries 



Art. 7. In territories whose ownership has been proved or 

 settled by the appUcation of the law of July 26, 1873, ^^ that 

 of April 28, 1887, or that of Feb. 16, 1897, the general or partial 



^ In this code the Algerian Waters and Forests Service is variously referred 

 to as: radministration des Eaux et Forets . . . Service des eaux et forets 

 ... so these terms have been rendered: Waters and Forests Service, since 

 official publications always use the title " Service des Eaux et Forets." 



