180 LEGISLATION ON TOEEENTS. 



the .point from which they should be sent, the pay which they will 

 receive, &o. 

 " Several employes are of opinion that the special staff of the reboisements 

 should be in keeping with the increasing development of the operations, and 

 that the employes composing this staff be entrusted with the execution of 

 the enterprises which they have suggested, with the assistance of the local 

 employes, during the d'sposable time left to these latter employes by the 

 requirements of their ordinary duties. 



" Eemarks. — The Administration proposes to entrust special agents 

 with the work of reboisement, not only in what regards the prepara- 

 tion for the undertaking, ha':, also the execution. This service wiU 

 also be placed in due time in a position to grapple with new 

 exigencies as they may present themselves. 

 "At the same time, the Administration does not intend that the 

 employes of the ordinary service shall consider themselves relieved 

 from all participat'on in the operation in question. 

 " Negotiations with proprietors of waste mountain land, for the purpose 

 of engaging them in reboisement,— the giving due notice in regard to 

 the demands for subventions for reboisemeiits facultatifs, — the super- 

 vision of execution of operations of repeuplement, — the giving of assist- 

 ance in operations of enjoined /'eSoiseOTerei when they take place, — will 

 be a part of the functions and duties of the officials attached to the 

 ordinary service. The Administration has pleasure in believing that 

 aU the officials will assist the enterprise with all necessary zeal and 

 devotion. 

 " Such are the principal questions which have occupied the employes 

 assembled in conference on the 9th, 10th, and 11th December, at Valence, 

 Aurillac, and Tarbes. 



" These agents have, moreover, given a concise account of the operations 

 already completed, and of those which are projected. The repetition here 

 of this account would be uninteresting. Concerning the completed works, 

 the Administration will iind more circumstantial details in the statements 

 Nos. 16 and 17, which should be produced, in accordance with the circular 

 No. 806. As to the projected operations, special notes will be supplied by 

 the conservators, each regarding what concerns his own circuit. 

 " (Signed) — H. Vicaibe, Director-General of Forest Administration. 

 "Paris, 10th January 1862." 



The following is a resume, or abstract, of the official report of operations 

 carried on in 1861 submitted by the Administration: — 



" A. Beboisements facuUatifs, or sanctioned operations. 



" If the comparative uniniportance of the greater part of the works, dnd 

 if the wide dispersion of these do not permit them to be included to-day in 

 the general system of defence against torrents, they tend at least efficaciously 

 to accomplish the object which the Legislatui-e had in view. 



" These reboisements, though partial, are in eiicct creating woods, which, 

 though now isolated, by successively effected combinations will prepare for 

 the future, masses of important forests. On the other hand, the rendering 

 productive lands which have remained until this time unproductive consti- 

 tutes a true agricultural progress. 



"There have been received, in 1861, 695 demands for subventions. 



