OTATUTE OF 37ra APBIL 1861, 15^ 



" Art. 9. The Municipal Council of each commune concerned, summoned 

 for the purpose by injunction from the prefect, is to examine the documents 

 in question, and, after a delay of a month, to give its opinion by a resolution 

 adopted in conjunction with the prescribed addition of others, equal in 

 number to that of the ofiSoiating members of the municipal council. This 

 resolution is to declare, if such be the case, whether the municipal council 

 authorises the works of replanting to be carried out to a still greater extent 

 than that specified by Art. 10 of law of 28th July 1860. The minute of this 

 resolution is to be added to the documents connected with the inquest. 



"Art. 10. The commission instituted by the second paragraph of Art. 5 of 

 the law of 28th July 1860 is formed by the prefect in each of the depart- 

 ments traversed by the line of works. 



" This commission meets at the place indicated by the prefeotoral resolu- 

 tion, and on the fifteenth day from the date of that decree. It examines 

 the documents giving the requisite instructions, and the declarations delivered 

 to the registrar of the inquest ; and, after having deliberated on these in 

 company with any persons whom they may consider it would be well to 

 consult, and with the information which they consider necessary, they give 

 their opinion both' on the utility of the undertaking, and on the various 

 questions submitted by the Administration. 



" These different proceedings, of which a minute is to be prepared, must 

 be completed within another period of one month. 



"Art. 11. The prefect, after having taken the opinions of the Council of 

 the Arrondissement and of the General Council, is to forward all the docu- 

 ments relative to the case, together with his own opinion, to the Minister 

 of Finance, who, after having previously consulted with the Minister of 

 Agriculture, of Commerce, and of Public Works, and the Minister of the 

 Interior, if there be occasion for it, is to submit to us his report. 



" A deliverance will then be given by us on the question of the public 

 utility of the works, our Council of State having heard the case. 



"Art. 12. A duplicate of the decree which declares the public utility of 

 the works is to be transmitted by the Director-General of Forests to the 

 prefect, who is charged with the fulfilment of the formalities prescribed by 

 Art. 6 of the law of 28th July 1860. 



" At the same time the Forest Administration is to notify to the prefect, 

 in regard to each plot in the register, the works to be accomplished, the 

 conditions under which they are to be executed, and the time within which 

 this must be done, the oflfers of subvention made by the Administration, and 

 the advances of money to which they are prepared to consent. 



" Chap. III. — Of the Execution and Maintenance of the Woeks. 



" Chap. 1. — Lands helonging to private proprietors comprised within the 



boundaries specified hy the decretal declarative of priMic utility. 



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" Art. 13. Within a period of one month reckoned from the notification 

 which is made to him of the decreet declarative of the public utility, the 

 private proprietor of the lands comprised within the boundary shall declare 

 whether he intends to execute the works himself, or to give up the execu- 

 tion of them to the Forest Administration. 



" This declaration is to be made in duplicate, and transmitted to the 

 Bub-prefeoture of the locality in which the places are situated, or in which 



