162 LEGISLA.TION ON T0EBBNT3. 



care of the Forest Administration. The advances of the State for this 

 object, ordered each year by the Minister of Finance, are to bear interest at 

 5 per cent, per annum. 



"A copy of the account is to be delivered to the parties concerned, along 

 with the statement of the expenses previously incurred. 



" Art. 27. Demands of revision or rectification of the annual accounts of 

 the expenses of the establishment, or of the maintenance of the works, 

 should, on pain of forfeiture of right to these, be brought before the 

 Councils of Prefecture within six months of the notification of said accounts. 

 After that "time the accounts become fixed. 



" Art. 28. The accounts of these products, and that of the expenses, are 

 to be made out and approved each year by the Minister of Finance, and a 

 copy is to be certified to the parties concerned. Within six months after 

 this notification the parties concerned can, as in the case of the account of 

 works, make the demand indicated in the preceding article. 



" The value of these products is to be deducted from the interest due to 

 the State, or otherwise, in the next place, from the principal constituted 

 by the expenses incurred in the establishment and the maintenance of the 

 works. 



" Art. 29. When the State is entirely reimbursed, the advances made by 

 it — be it by products gathered by it, or be it by payments made by the 

 parties concerned — these are forthwith to be put again in possession of the 

 lands administered for them by the State, under such reservations as result 

 from their being subjected to the regime forestih'e. 



Sbot. 3bd. — Eules to be followed in giving v/p of lands which Art. 9 of the 

 aw of 28th July 1860 authorises communes to cede to the State. 



" Art. 30. If the commune, or the public body, relieve themselves of all 

 repayment by ceding a half of the lands replanted, the Municipal Council 

 of the Administrative Commissions is to adopt a resolution to this effect, 

 which is to be notified to the prefect within the period indicated by the 

 second paragraph of Art. 9 of the law of 20th July 1860. 



"Art. 31. Proceedings are forthwith to be taken by a skilled person 

 nominated by the prefect, and a Forest Agent designated by the Forest 

 Administration, to divide the same into two lots of equal value. 



" The appropriation of the lots is to take place by drawing of lots, if the 

 parties concerned cannot come to an amicable arrangement of this. This 

 proceeding is to take place in the presence of the sub-prefect of the 

 Arrondissement. 



"If a part of the works has been executed by the commune or the public 

 body, this is to be taken into account in the division, and a proportionate 

 reduction is to be made in the share which falls to the lot of the State. 



" Chap. 3. — General directions. 



"Art. 32. Before commencing the works within the extent of the 

 boundaries fixed by the Imperial decrees, there is to be made, at the expense 

 of the State, a determination of the boundaries, and, if need be, a marking 

 off of the said boundaries on the ground." 



In order that the superior local officers of the Forest Administration 

 might be fully acquainted with what it was desired should be done in the 

 carrying out of the decree, the Director-General of the Forest Administration, 



