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■will go on as heretofore, and, until fresh orders, according to the 

 present scale and the requirements of the service. 



" Second Question. 



" Hitherto the applications for aid have been transmitted to the Adminis- 

 tration as fast as their submission by the proprietors of the reforested lands. 

 The number of these applications having now become considerable, it 

 appears necessary now to group them so as to send up several at one time. 

 " It is desirable to ascertain at what time the transmission of these should 

 take place, so as to secure at the proper season the execution of the works. 

 " Opinions and Proposals of the Agents. 



" The agents at the conference at Clermont advised that the applications 

 for aid in reforesting by communities should be produced before the 15th 

 July for the autumnal labours of the same year and the succeeding spring, 

 and that these demands should reach the Administration by September 1st. 

 " At the conference at Foix the agents deemed that the demands relating 

 to the worts in spring might be drawn up before October 1st, and sent at 

 that date to the Administration, and that for the reforesting in autumn 

 they should be sent in by May 1st. 



" The conference was of opinion that no date should be fixed for sending 

 the requests to the agent, but that the latter should be authorised to put 

 off till the following year the preparation of every demand which might not 

 reach him two months before the general despatch relating to the season 

 for executing the works. 



" According to the opinion of the conference at Carpentras, it is better to 

 fix two dates for sending off the reports — i.e. 1st October, for the works 

 to be carried on in the spring of the following year, and June 1st for those 

 of the autumn of the same year. 



" Remarks and Instriictions of the Administration. 



" It seems to be well to fiix upon two periods for forwarding collected 

 applications for aid on sanctioned reboisements to the Administration, 

 accompanied by a report on the same — that is to say, June 1st for" 

 the autumn works ; October 1st for the works of the ensuing spring. 

 Any demand which shall not reach the superintendent of the depart- 

 ment a month before each of these fixed times may be carried over 

 by the chief of the department to the following season, or following 

 year ; and this chief will be the judge in the case in which a demand 

 for aid should be separately sent in to the Administration out of the 

 prescribed periods. 



" Third Question. 



"The Administration has caused to be prepared a form of report for 

 instruction on applications for aid. It is desirable to ascertain whether this 

 formula embraces all the points on which information is required. 

 " Opinions, &e., of the Agents. 



" The three conferences have proposed to adopt the formula proposed by 

 the Administration, with some slight modifications. 

 " Remarks and Instructions of the Administration. 



" The model of the report has been sent to the conservators by the 

 Administration in sufficient number of copies for the requirements 

 of the service. 

 " When an agent shall have to send at one time a number of applica- 



