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it is necessary that a guard should be constantly stationed at the wood-yard 

 of the works. This obligation necessarily causing heavy expenses to the 

 officials, it is desirable to extend the arrangements of circular No. 708 to 

 each official compelled to sleep away from home. 

 " Remarks, die, of^he Administration. 



" The Administration is of opinion that the works being executed under 

 the direction of agents gives the only security for success. It does 

 not seem possible always to exact the presence of an official on the 

 spot. This ought, however, to be secured whenever it is possible. 

 The Government has the intention to remunerate in a suitable 

 degree the officials who accomplish onerous duties, and who render 

 important service. In this respect no absolute rule can be fixed, 

 the rewards must vary with circumstances. 

 " Special propositions on this head may be sent in; and, in order to 

 V prevent these coming at all times of the year, (which occasions 

 serious loss of time to the Administration) it is desirable, hencefor- 

 ward, to collect them into two despatches, added to 'the forms 

 ordered, Nos. 16 and 17 (Circular 806). 

 " In justification of the credits opened, the agents stated that in the 

 delay of a month, which occurred in the settlement of accounts, the agents 

 have produced tables with margins of the accounts of the day's work of the 

 labourers, as a return for the sums put to their account ; for the supplies, 

 they have presented receipted bills, all according to the rules of debit and 

 credit. 



" The conference at Clermont submitted to the Administration the 

 following question : When the aid gTanted, according to the estimate of the 

 works, exceeds that estimate, should the extra sum be granted to the appli- 

 cant, and if the expense is less than the allotted aid, should a credit for 

 that extra sum be demanded 1 



" Reply, die. — The estimate of the expenses of the works can only be an 

 approximate one. Consequently, when the aid is greater than the 

 actual expense, the course to be pursued is to extend the works over 

 a space proportionate to the excess ; or, if that extension is imprac- 

 ticable, to leave unemployed the said excess in money, which will 

 thus be disposable for other works. If the aid granted be less than 

 the expense would be, the works should be reduced by an extent 

 corresponding to the difference of means. 

 " The agents at the conference at Foix proposed that the good or bad 

 execution of the works should be established by a minute declarative of the 

 facts, and to extend the application of this measure to the sanctioned 

 reboisements of communal lands, when undertaken by individuals with the 

 grant in aid. 

 " Remarks, (he. 



" Nothing would be gained by the establishment of the good execution 

 of the works by such a minute ; and in regard to the bad execution 

 of the work, it is already prescribed by the regulation to supply 

 grounds for exacting repayment, in whole or in part, of the grant 

 made. 

 " The agents at the conference at Carpentras, in giving account of the 

 means employed to insure the good execution of the works, and the pay- 

 ment of expenses, stated, in regard to delivery of orders, that where this is 

 done it is by small coupons, which has facilitated payment and rectification 



