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" The whole country will watch with the greatest solicitude the results 

 of the new law. It reckons on your zeal ; we must not disappoint the 

 expectation. 



" I shall annually report to the Minister the works executed each year, 

 in accordance with the law ; it will be a pleasure to me, in doing so, to mate 

 special mention to His Excellency of your zeal, and of that of the agents 

 who shall have best seconded you in this work, which is so important." 



The following decree, embodying the statute of the Public Administration 

 for the enforcement of the law of 28th July 1860, was issued 27th April 1861. 



" Chap. I. — Of Ebboisbmbnt Facultatifs, or Sanctioned and Aided 

 Operations. 



"AHs 1, 2, S, and 12 of the law of 28th July 1860. 



"Art. 1. Proprietors of lands situated on the summits or the declivities 

 of mountains who desire to avail themselves of the subventions granted by 

 the State, in terms of Arts. 1 and 2 of the law of 28th July 1860, should 

 address their demand to the Forest Conservator. 



" If it be a commune or a public body, the demand should be addressed to 

 the prefect, who will transmit it to the conservator, with a letter of advice. 



" Art. 2. Lands belonging to communes or public bodies, on which works 

 of reboisement are undertaken by help of subventions granted by the State, 

 are subjected to the regime forestiere. 



" The works on these, as well as those of conservation, or of full main- 

 tenance, are to be executed under the control and surveillance of the forest 

 officials. 



" If the lands belong to several communes, and it be necessary to the 

 successful prosecution of the reboisement that the work be carried on simul- 

 taneously in all of these, there is to be created, conformable to Arts. 70, 71, 

 and 72 of the law of 18th July 1837, a syndic council for the purpose of 

 eflfeoting an execution of the works. 



" In case of the non-execution, or of the bad execution, of the works 

 certified by the forest officials, the prefect passes a resolution enjoiningthe 

 restitution to the State of the subventions which have been allowed. 



" Art. 3. Premiums in money, obtained by private proprietors after the 

 execution of the works, are to be paid on presentation of a minute of 

 acceptance of works, drawn up by the local forest official in the form of 

 minutes of acceptance of works of improvement in the State forests, and on 

 the advice of the inspector and the conservator. 



" Subventions in seeds, or in plants, delivered to private proprietors 

 before the execution of the works, are to be "estimated at their money value. 

 The valuation is to be notified to the proprietor, and accepted by him. The 

 amount of this is to be repaid to the State in case of the non-execution of 

 the works, the misappropriation of the seeds or plants, or of the bad execu- 

 tion of the work certified, as has been prescribed in Art. 2 of the present 

 regulations. 



" Art. 4. The allocation of subventions exceeding in amount 500 francs 

 is to be made by the Minister of Finance ; the allocation of subventions 

 under 500 francs in amount is to be made by the Director-General of Forests. 



"Art. 5. When works of replanting have been executed on lands 

 belonging to private proprietors by help of subventions, the proprietors, 



