164 LEGISLATION ON TOBEBNTB. 



" The preceding directions are only applicable to the authorised replanting 

 of woods for which demands for aid may in future be sent in. The works 

 already undertaken, by the help of credit placed at your disposal upon the 

 fund appropriated to the expenses of the replanting of the mountains with 

 woods, will be continued according to the plan on which they were commenced. 

 "Article 2 relates to the work to be done in the lands belonging to the 

 communes, or to the public establishments. These lands being by clear 

 title subject to the forest department, it will not be necessary to get for 

 them special applications ; it will suffice that you address to the Administra- 

 tion, at a fit opportunity, the necessary instructions, in order that they may 

 be inscribed upon the roll of the communal woods or public establishments 

 subject to the Forest Administration. 



" When there may be occasion to form a municipal commission, you will 

 ' make known to the Government the measures taken to this effect. Aid 

 wiU only be granted when the said commission shall have been regularly 

 constituted. 



" You will take care that the control and supervision of works by the 

 forest agents shall be efficiently maintained. 



" The aids for the execution of works of reforesting on lands belonging to 

 private proprietors are principally granted in kind. But aid in money can 

 be granted to private proprietors under the head of money advanced. The 

 exposee des motifs, or explanation of the grounds of the law of 28th July 

 1860, says, on this subject, that the private proprietors themselves shall be 

 admitted to the benefit of aid in money, at least in certain exceptional cases, 

 where the actual expense would be too great compared with the profits, 

 necessarly remote, and in which the work should present a character of 

 public utility sufficiently obvious in order to its appearing just on the part of 

 the State to support outlays, of which the public would in part reap the fruit. 



" When a private proprietor shall have framed a request, the same form 

 will be followed as in the demand for aid in kind. The agents will visit 

 the localities, certify the state of the property, appraise the expenses of the 

 work, as well as their utility in regard to the public interest, and estimate, 

 principally as regards the latter point, the amount of aid to be allowed, 



" The third Article traces the course to be pursued in the payment of this. 



" As regards the payments in kind, the model formula No 3. has been so 

 prepared that the deed of notification forms, between the Adminstration and 

 the receiver of the aid, a contract of a kind supplying a reciprocal guarantee 

 on behalf of the subsidised proprietor, and on behalf of the general interest. 



" Articles 4 and 5 have no need of explanation. 



" When the staff of agents and employes of the ordinary service shall be 

 acknowledged to be insufficient to insure the execution of measures relative ■ 

 to the replanting of woods, further measures must be taken for this object. 

 Already, at a certain number of points, posts of brigadiers and warders have 

 been created for this special object. I recommend to you to see that the 

 persons appointed to these posts shall render all the services rightly 

 required of them. 



" Pabt II. — Reboisbments Obligatoirbs, or Enjoined Operations. 



" Specification of the boundaries of the lands on which it is necessary that 

 reboisement he effected, 



" Article 6 gives to the Administration of Forests the charge of marking 

 out the lands on which it is necessary to execute the work of reboisement. 



