216 LEGISLATION ON TORRENTS. 



resignation to the State of the possession and proprietorship of land ; (4) 

 The mode of fixing and allocating grants of money, which, according to cir- 

 cumstances, may be allotted to communes in case of the temporary 

 deprivation of them of pasture on the communal lands which are, for the 

 time being, the subjects oi gazonnement or rehoisement. 



" Art. 7. A sum of five millions is set apart to the payment of expenses 

 authorised by the present law, amounting to 500,000 francs per annum. 



" This shall be provided by means of extraordinary fellings in the Crown 

 forests being made in aid of the ordinary resources of the treasury." 



On the 10th November, in this year, was issued the Imperial Decree, 

 embodying the regulation of the Administration for the execution of the 

 laws of 28th July 1860, and the 8th June 1861, on the rehoisement and the 

 gazonnement of the mountains, in which, after the preamble stating what 

 documents had been seen and considered, it is stated, — 



" We have decreed and decree what follows : — 



" TiTBB I. — Reboisements et Gazonnements Faoultatips. 



"Art. 1. The proprietors of land situated on mountain tops or 

 declivities, who may wish to benefit by the subventions to be granted by 

 the State in terms of Arts. 1 and 2 of the iaw of 28th July 1860, and of 

 paragraph 1 of Art. 2 of the law of 8th June 1864, should make their 

 desires known to the Conservateur des Forets. 



" When a commune or public institution is in question, the request 

 should be made to the prefect, who transmits it to the conservateur, along 

 with his opinion and reasons attached. 



" Art. 2. Ground belonging to communes or public institutions on which 

 operations of rehoisement or gazonnement are undertaken, with the aid of 

 State subventions, are for the time submitted absolutely, the parts rehoised 

 to the forest regime, the parts regazonnid to the pasture regulations pre- 

 scribed by article 21 of the present decree. 



" These operations, as well as the work necessary for preserving and 

 keeping them up, are effected under the control and superintendence of the 

 forest officials, 



" Art. 3. If the ground belongs to several communes, and the success of 

 the reboisements or gazonnements ,renders necessary combined operation, in 

 accordance with Articles 70, 71, and 72 of the law of 18th July 1837, a 

 Syndical Commission is appointed to attend to and carry on the operation. 



" In any case in which the work has not been done, or has been badly 

 executed, according to attestation of the forest officials, through the com- 

 munes or the public institutions neglecting to conform to the decrees for 

 the regulation of the right of pasturage, the prefect takes out a summons 

 commanding the restitution of the subventions which have been allotted by 

 the State. 



Art. 4. The money premiums obtained by private individuals are paid 

 after the work is performed, on presentation of a minute declarative of the 

 works having been accepted, prepared by the local forest official in the form 

 of the corresponding minute required on completion of operations for im- 

 proving the crown lands, and on the advice of the inspector of the conser- 

 vateur. 



" A valuation is made of the subventions of seed or plants which are 



