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Art. 105. The provisions of the preceding article are not. 

 applicable to the afforestation enumerated under Art. 103. 



Art. 109.^^ Woods or brush situated within reafforestation 

 areas are considered as coming under the conditions set forth 

 in Art. 76, and cannot be denuded at any time without the 

 authorization of the Waters and Forests Service. 



Art. 1 10. Owners desirous of special guards for the pres- 

 ervation of their woods must have them approved by the 

 sub-prefect, in conformity with the provisions of the law of 

 April 12, 1892. 



The orders approving of these guards can be drawn up in 

 accordance with paragraph i of the above-mentioned law. 



These guards can only exercise office after having taken oath 

 before the justice of the peace. 



Art. III. All private individuals shall have the privilege of 

 freeing their forests from rights in the same manner, and under 

 the same conditions as the State. 



Art. 112. The rights of pasturage and of gathering of acorns 

 in private woods can only be exercised (in case of disputes 

 between the proprietors and right owners) in those portions of 

 the woods declared closed by the Waters and Forests Service 

 and according to the condition and yield of the forests reported 

 by the Service. 



The expenses resulting from the intervention of the Waters 

 and Forests Service shall be adjudged according to the tariff 

 applicable to experts, and shall be borne equally by the in- 

 terested parties. 



The roads over which the stock must pass to go to and 

 from the pasturage shall be indicated by the owner. Their 

 minimum breadth shall be 20 metres (22 yards). 



Art. 113. All the provisions contained in Arts. 68, 69, 70, 

 paragraphs i, 71, 72, and 74 of the present law are applicable to 

 the exercise of rights in woods belonging to private individuals. 

 The owner, in this case, exercises the same rights and the same 



19 Arts. 106 to 108 have been treated above in Section VIII of Part III. The 

 classification of the articles does not follow their sequence in the code but in ac- 

 cordance with the more logical arrangement adopted by Guyot in his commentary. 



