i54 iJBaiSLATION ON TOIiBENTS, 



" Art. 11. Forest warders of the State may be appointed to the surveil- 

 lance of the sowings and plantations within the boundaries fixed by the 

 Imperial decrees. Offences within these boundaries, proved by these 

 guards, are to be prosecuted as offences committed in the woods subjected 

 to forest regime; and the execution of the sentence is to be enforced 

 conformably to the Articles 209, 211, 212, and to the §§ 1 and 2 of Art. 210 

 of the Code for estwre. 



"Art. 12. The first paragraph of Art. 224 of the Code foresti'ere is not 

 applicable to reboisements effected with subvention or pi-emium granted by 

 the State in execution of the present law. 



" The proprietors of lands replanted with woods, with premium or sub- 

 vention of the State, cannot depasture these without a special authority 

 from the Forest Administration, until such time as the woods shall have 

 been recognised by the said Administration as sufficiently protected. 



"Art. 13. A regulation by the Public Administration shall determine — 

 (1) the measures to be taken for the determination of the boundary 

 indicated in Article 5 of the present law ; (2) the rules to be observed for 

 the execution and conservation of works of reboisement ; (3) the mode of 

 determining the advances to be made by the State, the proper measures for 

 securing the reimbursement of these, principal and interest, and the rules 

 to be followed for giving up proprietorship of lands which Article 9 

 authorises communes to cede to the State. 



"Art. 14. A sum of 10,000,000 [francs] is appropriated to the payment 

 of expenditure authorised by the present law, to the extent of 1,000,000 

 per anfium. 



" The Minister of Finance is authorised to alienate, with power of uprooting 

 if necessary, woods belonging to the State, to the value of 5,000,000 of francs. 

 " These woods cannot be taken except from amongst those entered in 

 table B. annexed to the present law. The alienations may be made 

 successively within a period which shall not exceed' ten years, reckoning 

 from 1st Jan. 1861. 



" The Minister of Finance is in like manner authorised to sell the 

 above-mentioned woods to communes on an approved valuation, and on 

 conditions determined by a regulation of the public Administration. 



" The 5,000,000 of francs, necessary to complete provision for the 

 expenditure authorised by the present law, shall be provided by means of 

 extraordinary fellings of wood, and, if necessary, from the ordinary 

 resources of the budget." 



On the same day was enacted a land improvement law, entitled Loi sur 

 la mise en valeur des comrmmaux, providing for the utilization of commons 

 by means of State aid in the drainage, or other measures required to fit for 

 agricultural or sylvicultural operations, imcultivated lands and marshes 

 belonging to communes, or sections of communes, the utilization of which 

 might be deemed beneficial. 



Under date of 17th August 1860, M. Vicaire, director-general of the 

 Forest Administration, addressed to the Forest Conservators a circular 

 relative to reboisement, of which the following is a translation : — 



" The question of the replanting of mountains with woods, so important 

 in view of inundations, is about to receive a practical solution. The 

 Imperial Government, which does not shrink from any expense required to 



