EXPOsi DEB MOTIF b OF LAW OF 8tH JUKE 1864. 211 



" B0b<nsent£rvU facvltatift, that is to say those set ar-going by the simple 

 encouragement of State subventions, have extended, — 



In 1861, to - 3,237 hectares. 



In 1862, to 7,448 „ 



In 1863, to 9,320 „ 



" Beboisements effected on the Crown lands have replanted, — 

 In 1861, 1,402 hectares. 



In 1862, 1.866 „ 



In 1863, 1,750 „ 



" As regards rdxngemsTvl obli</aioires, that is to say, what is done in the 

 p6rimetre, or boundary, the replanting of which has been pronounced 

 necessary for the public welfare, the operations have been necessarily 

 retarded by the fulfilment of legal formalities, but investigations and 

 instructions have been carried on with activity. 



" At the end of 1863, 264 undertakings, comprehending 140,000 hectares, 

 were made the subjects of special consideration, and 77 had been the subject 

 of special decrees declaring their public utility. The operations were being 

 executed in 26 perimetres, and over an extent of 1,853 hectares. 



" At least 40 Departments are profiting by the operation of the law. 



" Several Greneral Councils of Departmente have desired to take part in 

 the Grovemment works. The sums voted have been, — 



20,000 francs in 1860 



40,000 „ „ - - 1861 



71,000 „ „ - 1862 



98,000 „ „ 1863 



" The import of such a constant and rapid progress has not escaped the 

 notice of Grovemment. The net cost of the operations has not been less 

 satisfaxitory. 



" The reasons assigned for the law of 1860, inspired by a very decided 

 wish to avoid all illusions and chimerical promises, fixed the average expense 

 of the work of repeuplement at 180 francs per hectare. What has bepi 

 done in the average expense has not exceeded 108 francs, and the benefit 

 of the law may thus extend to other and more extensive districts. 



" Grovemment has all along met with the greatest sympathy from the 

 Gteneral Councils of Departments, Councils of Arrondissements, and Special 

 Commi ssioners. 



" But now, as we approach a very important and very delicate point — the 

 moral disposition of the population towards the measures taken to cany 

 into effect the law of 1860 — ^we meet fects which have induced Govemment 

 to think that it is opportune, and perhaps necessary, to complete this law 

 in accordance with the wishes expressed by the Commission of the Corpi 

 Legidaiif, at least in so far as relates to the communal pasture lands. 



" The aim and consequences of the law relative to mountain rdxmemeid 

 has been but imperfectly understood and appreciated by Municipal CouncOs, 

 and by the inhabitants of the communes most interested. 



" Those who have the rights of pasturage, accustomed to^the slender in- 

 come derived from depasturing — and it must be admitted sometimes too 

 poor to do without this, are disturbed by measures which temporarily restrain 

 their individual privileges, iloreover, seeing that Gk)vernment occupies 

 itself exclusively with works of rehoisement, they attribute to it the design 

 of everywhere substituting forest for pasture, so as to progressively accom- 

 plish the suppresBioa of depasturing. 



