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communes concerned ; (4) the opinionof the council of the Arrondissement, 

 and that of the General Council. 



" The prods-verbal, or attested minute specifying the lands, the 

 diagram, or chart of the lands, and the specification of the works proposed, 

 prepared by the Forest Administration with the co-operation and approval 

 of an engineer of roads and bridges or mines, are to remain deposited in the 

 office of the mayor during the inquest or inquiry, the duration of which is 

 limited to a month, dating from the time of the prefectoral resolution, 

 which prescribes the opening of the inquest and the convocation of the 

 municipal council. 



" Art. 6. The Imperial decree is to be published and posted up in the 

 communes concerned. 



" The prefect, moreover, is to serve on the communes, on the public 

 establishments, and on the private individuals concerned, extracts of the 

 Imperial decree, containing severally what therein relates to the lands 

 belonging to them. 



" The notification made to them is to state the limit of time within which 

 the works of reboisement should be completed, and, if there be occasion for 

 it, the subvention granted by the Administration, or the advances which 

 they are prepared to make. 



" Art. 7. If the lands comprised within the boundary determined by the 

 Imperial decree belong to private individuals, these are required to declare 

 if they intend themselves to efl'ect the reboisement, and in that case they are 

 held bound to execute the works within the period fixed by the decree. 



" In case of refusal to do so, or of failure of execution of the engagement 

 undertaken, it is competent to proceed to expropriation on the ground of 

 public utility, observing the formalities prescribed by the Title II. and those 

 following of the law of 3rd May 1841. 



" The proprietor expropriated in the execution of this Article has a right 

 to obtain reintegration in his property after the reforesting, on repayment 

 of the expense of the expropriation, and of the works, principal and interest; 

 or he may relieve himself of repayment of the expense of reboisement by 

 ceding half of the property. 



"Art. 8. If the communes or public establishments refuse to execute the 

 works on lands belonging to them, or if it be impossible for them to execute 

 these in whole or in part, the State may do so, either by amicably obtaining 

 possession of the part of the lands which they do not wish, or are unable, to 

 reforest, or by undertaking the whole of the works at its own expense. In 

 the latter case it retains the administration and the use of the reforested 

 lands until the advances made have been reimbursed, principal and interest. 

 But while this is the case, the commune will enjoy the right of pasturage 

 on the reforested lands as soon as the woods shall have been sufficiently 

 protected from injury. 



" Art. 9. The communes and public establishments can, in every case, 

 exonerate themselves from repayment to the State by giving up their right 

 of property in half of the re-wooded lands. This cession of right of property 

 must be made, on pain of forfeiture of privilege, within a period of ten years 

 from the notification of the completion of the works. 



"Art. 10. The sowing or replanting in each commune cannot be made 

 on more than on one-twentieth of the extent of the lands annually, unless a 

 resolution of the municipal council authorise the works being carried on on 

 a more extensive scale. 



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