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tions, it will be unnecessary to add to each a special report. The 

 attestation of the requests can be verified by a collective statement 

 in writing, conformably to the directions of the formula. 



" II. Reboisements Obligatoires, oe Enjoined Reboisements. 



" Fourth question. 



" In the plans for enjoined reforesting, the estimate of the expense of 

 the works, as well as the division of this expense among the parties 

 interested, the fixing of the subsidy, and the estimation of the revenue and of 

 the value of the lots, can be given approximately. If further simplifications 

 should be desirable, the agents are desired to prepare a statement of these, 

 after having discussed the subject in conference. 

 " Opinions, <tc., of the Agents. 



" The conference at Clermont remarks that, in a certain number of projects 

 already presented, it has been thought best to uuite in one group the 

 different lots belonging to the same proprietor. This measure, which is 

 tedious and laborious, does not appear to the agents to be of much use. 



" The same conference remarks that the Administration has returned 

 several plans of enjoined reforesting, on account of stipulutions for too 

 long a delay in the execution of the works. The agents think that a con- 

 siderable latitude should be left in this respect, as well as for the other 

 details of execution. 



" EemarTcs, &c., of the Administration. 



" The union of different lots belonging to the same proprietor, useful 

 in certain cases, is not prescribed absolutely. The Administration 

 leaves to the agents to decide whether or not there be reason for 

 doing so. 

 " The Administration considers that it is desirable to push on energet- 

 ically the execution of the works, and that, in this point of view, it 

 is inconvenient to stipulate in the plans for the long delays which 

 interested parties may desire the Administration to sanction. 

 " It is certainly necessary to allow all possible discretion in execution ; 

 but it is necessary also to 'avoid raising hindrances of a kind to 

 paralyse the effort of the Administration, and to hinder it iu giving, 

 or trying to give, a fresh impulse to the progress of the works, as 

 circumstances may require. 

 " The agents submit to the Administration the question — Whether the 

 directions, relative to the designation of two proprietors as members 

 of the special commission, instituted by the fifth Article of the law 

 of the 28th July 1860, should be understood of two proprietors of 

 each commune comprised within the area of rehoisement, or only of 

 two proprietors for all the communes ? The agents of the conference 

 at Poix have not pointed out any further simplification required. 

 " The composition of the commission lies with the prefect ; it belongs, 

 then, to this magistrate to interpret, according to his judgment, 

 the directions of the law in this respect. 

 " The Administration deems that in appointing two proprietors to take 

 part in the commission, the Legislature had in view to introduce 

 into this commission members possessing knowledge of localities and 

 their requirements, and not of persons directly interested in the 

 operation only. 



