CIEOULAB OF IST JUNE 1861. 169 



" In such cases you should use all your influence with the Municipal 

 Councils, and call in that of the prefect to induce them to treat amicably 

 •with the State. 



" Communal lands, or the lands of public establishments within the limits, 

 being subjected absolutely to the forest regime, in terms of Article 21, it will 

 suffice that you address to the Administration, at the proper time, the infor- 

 mation necessary to have those lands inscribed among the communal woods, 

 or the woods of public establishments subjected to the forest regime. 



" Articles 22 and 23 need no explanation. 



" Section 2. — Specifications of the advances made by the State to the 

 communes, or to the public bodies, and measures proper to secure the re- 

 imbursement of these : 



" Works at the expense of the State on lands belonging to communes and 

 to public establishments differ in nothing from the works carried on by the 

 Forest Administration on the grounds belonging to - the State. The agents 

 directly superintend and maintain these works, without any intervention of 

 the Municipal Councils, or of the Administrative Commissions. 



" It is only required to keep a separate account of the expenses relative 

 to each commune, or to each public establishment, up to the time when the 

 State being completely reimbursed the advances made to the commune, 

 or to the public establishment, they re-enter on possession of the lands 

 subject to the forest regime. 



" There wiU be sent to you timeously, if there be need, more detailed 

 instructions for the keeping of this account, and for the annual notification 

 to the parties interested of the expenses incurred on their behalf by the 

 Administration. 



" Section 3. — Eules to be followed in the giving up of lands which Ai-t. 

 9 of the law of 28th July 1860 authorises communes to cede to the State : 



" In terms of Art. 9 of the law of 28th July 1 860, the communes and the 

 public establisments may, in any case, relieve themselves of repayment to 

 the State by ceding the proprietorship of half of the lands re-wooded. 



" Articles 30 and 31 of the decree of 27th April 1861 prescribe the course 

 to be followed in such a case. 



" The execution of these dispositions ought not to take place but in a 

 future pretty distant. I reserve to myself to give to you, in good time, the 

 instructions which you may then recLuire. 



" Chap. 4 — General Directions. 



" Art. 32. It is necessaiy that the bounds of the lands comprised within 

 the limits fixed by the Imperial decrees should be determined in such a 

 manner as to prevent all subsequent dispute. This end may doubtless be 

 attained in both cases without its being 'necessary to proceed very 

 stringently to work. 



"' In order to avoid long delays, and the expense inseparable from such, 

 it will almost always suffice to proceed to a conjoint reconoissance in a 

 manner almost analogous to that of the partial determination of boundaries. 



" The deeds concerning the communes and the public establishments are 

 neither subject to the formality of official seal nor to that of registration. 



" In what relates to private proprietors, the demand for subvention, like 



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