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before admitting cattle into the plantation, must address an application for 

 permission to do so to the conservator, who is to cause the state of the 

 young woods to be ascertained by the forest official, and to determine 

 •accordingly, under power of appeal to the Minister of Finance. 



" If the proprietor fail to conform himself to the decision given, the whole 

 or part of the subventions granted may be charged against the proprietor. 



" Chap. II. — Of Kbboisbmbnts Obligatoikes, or Enjoined Replantings. 



" The determination of the boundaries within which it is necessary to execute 

 the reboisement. 



" Act. 6. When the Forest Administration considers that it is proper to pro- 

 ceed to determine the boundaries of the lands on which it is necessary to 

 execute works oi reboisement, the Director-General of Forests is to give notice to 

 the prefect of the forest agents designated for the preparation of the minute 

 of specification of the lands, the diagram, or plan of the places, and the pro- 

 posed project of the works to be executed. 



" The prefect is to designate the engineer of roads and bridges, or of 

 mines, whose consent to the operation is required. 



" Art. 7. The minute of specifications is to be accompanied by a descrip- 

 tive memoir, indicating the object of the entei-prise, and the benefits 

 expected to attend it. 



" The diagram, or plan of the place, is to be prepared in accordance with 

 the land-register of the district. It is to indicate, in regard to each plot, 

 the number specifying it in that register ; the superficial contents ; the 

 name of the proprietor ; and if it belong to a commune, or to a public body, 

 the sum total of the superficial contents of lands belonging to the commune, 

 or to the public body. 



" The project of works to be executed is to indicate the lands which it is 

 designed to replant ; it fixes the time within which the works should be 

 executed ; and it contains (1) an approximate estimate of the expense, and 

 a project of the partition of this expense among the different proprietors ; 

 (2) an indication of the subventions which might be off'ered to each pro- 

 prietor ; (3) a valuation of the actual revenue from each lot, of the value of 

 the ground, and of the value of the crop ; (4) any other statistical informa- 

 tion which might be useful, if known. 



" Art. 8. The documents spoken of in the preceding Article are to be 

 addressed by the Forest Administration to the prefect, who is to proceed to 

 institute in each commune the inquest prescribed by Art. 5 of the law of 

 28th July 1860. 



" The project of operations is to remain deposited in the mayor's office 

 for a month ; at the expiry of this time a commissioner, designated by the 

 prefect, is to receive, at the mayor's office, during three successive days, 

 declarations from inhabitiants regarding the public utility of the projected 

 works. These days are reckoned from the advertisement, given by means 

 of publication, and posted notices. The authority for such advertisement, 

 and the publication of the order of the prefect which appoints the opening 

 of the inquest, must be a certificate from the mayor. 



"After having closed and signed the register of the declarations, the 

 commissioner is to transmit this immediately to the prefect, with advice 

 and the other documents of instruction which have served as a ground for 

 the inquest. 



