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"With this view two proprietors would suffice not only for one 

 p6rimfetre, or area of reboisement, but also for several p6rimtoes in 

 the same district. 

 " In the conference at Carpentras, the agents have expressed the opinion 

 that it is better to leave as much latitude as possible to the verbal report, 

 and to the written account of the examination of the land, and that the 

 speciiications of the works proposed for execution should be on printed 

 forms, supplied by the Administration. 

 " Remarhs, <Ssc., of the Administration. 



" The form of the specification of works proposed for execution 

 being susceptible of variation according to circumstances, it does not 

 appear desirable to provide a separate form for this any more than 

 for the report of survey and descriptive memoir. 

 " Some agents have expressed an opinion that it would help the full 

 understanding of the report if there were indicated on the charts the lay, or 

 inclination of the land, the general water-shed, and the flow of the waters. 

 " Remarhs, <hc., of the Administration. 



" These suggestions are valuable, and the Administration strongly 

 recommends to the agents to carry them out in the preparation of 

 plans for projected works. 



" Fifth Question. 



" It should be ascertained whether it would not be well to prepare for 

 every p6rimfetre, or specified area of reboisement, a detached statement, in 

 which shall be anticipated all the cases mentioned in chaps, i. and ii. (sees. 

 1 and 2) of part iii. of the decree, regulating the reforesting, of April 27 

 1861. In this statement should be classed in order all the lots included in 

 the p6rimtoe, with indications of the course followed with each of them, 

 and of the expense of the same. In it especially should be included all the 

 necessary elements for establishing the annual accounts mentioned in 

 Arts. 26, 27, and 28 of the above-mentioned decree. 



" Opinions, &c., of the Agents. 



" The agents of the conference at Clermont expressed the opinion that it is 

 impossible, in the case of a p^rimfetre composed of a great number of separate 

 lots of small extent, to keep a separate account for each lot of the quantity 

 of seed and of the manual labour employed ; that it is only necessary to 

 keep one account of the whole of the lots requiring the same expenditure in 

 execution of the work reforested the same year ; and that it would be easy to 

 estimate from this account, at the end of the year, the cost per hectare 

 of each parcel, as well as the expense to each proprietor. 



" Some agents proposed the keeping of two statements for each p6rimfetre^- 

 the one to contain statements of all the lots included in the pdrimfetre, and 

 in which account would be kept of the changes efiected on each lot by each 

 proprietor; the other, which should be destined for the total of the lots 

 reforested the same year, supplying all the information relative to this 

 reforesting. 



" The conference expressed definitively the opinion, that on account of the 

 variety of conditions occurring in different districts, the Administration 

 cannot well prescribe the use of the same form of account in all ; and 

 that at present uniformity should only be required in half-yearly estimates, 

 to be transmitted to the Administration in accordance with the circular 

 No. 806. 



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