218 liEGISLATION ON TOBRENTS. 



" A certificate from the mayor attests the performance of this formality, 

 as well as the publication of the prefect's decree requiring the members of 

 the inquest to begin operations. 



P " After having closed and signed the register of declarations, the com- 

 missioner transmits it immediately to the prefect, along with his opinion 

 and reasons annexed. He also sends the other papers which have served as 

 a basis to the inquiries. 



" Art. 9. The Municipal Council of each of the communes interested, 

 called together by the prefect for the express purpose, shall examine the 

 papers connected with the investigation, and at the end of a month shall 

 give an opinion, by a resolution agreed to by them, along with the super- 

 added assessors, in number equal to that of the acting municipal council- 

 lors. If it is necessary, this resolution shall declare it ; if the Municipal 

 Council authorises operations of reboisement to a greater extent than that 

 fixed by Art. 10 of the law of 28th July 1860, also operations of gazonne- 

 ment and of enclosure to a greater extent than that fixed by Art. 4 of the 

 law of 8th June 1864, the minute of this resolution is added to the 

 papers connected with the inquiry. 



" Art. 10. The Commission ordained by par. 2 of Art. 5 of the law of 28th 

 July 1860, and par. 1 of the law of 8th June 1864, is appointed by the 

 prefect in all the departments traversed by the line of operations. 



" The Commission assembles, in the place pointed out by the prefect, on 

 the fourteenth day after he has given intimation. The papers giving 

 directions are examined, also the declarations handed in to the clerk of the 

 investigation ; and after all necessary information has been collected from 

 persons suitable to be consulted, the Commission gives its opinion, with 

 reasons annexed, both concerning the utility of the enterprise and upon the 

 different questions that have been submitted by Government. 



" These different proceedings, from which the proces verbal or minute 

 is prepared, should be completed within the course of another month. 



" Art. 11. The prefect, after having taken advice from the Council of the 

 Arrondissement, and from the General Council, shall forward all the docu- 

 ments, with his own opinion and reasons annexed, to our Minister of Finance, 

 who, after having consulted our Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and of 

 Public Works, and also, when necessary, our Minister of the Interior, shall 

 lay his report before us. We afterwards, in conjunction with our Council of 

 State, shall decide upon the public utility of the operation. 



"Art. 12. A duplicate of the decree declaring the public utility of the 

 works is forwarded by the Director-General of Forests to the prefect, who is 

 responsible for the performance of the formalities prescribed by Art. 6 of 

 the law of 28th July 1860, and par. 1 of Art. 2 of the law of 8th June 

 1864. At the same time the Forest Administration intimates to the 

 prefect, in regard to each registered lot, the operations to be effected, the 

 conditions and time fixed for the completion of the offers of subventions 

 by the State, or the advances they are disposed to give, and finally, if need 

 be, the indemnities awarded for temporary deprivation of pasture. 



" TiTEB III. — The Execution and Keeping up of the Work. 



" Chap. I, — Lands belonging to Private Frojmetors, included in the 

 Pirimkres, fixed hy decrees declaring their public utility. 



"Art. 13. At the end of one month, reckoned from the intimation made 



