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to him of the decree declarative of public utility, tKe proprietor of land 

 included in the p6rimfetre shall declare if he intends doing the work himself, 

 or intends leaving it to the Forest Administration. 



" Two copies are made of this declaration, and forwarded to the sous- 

 prefecture of the locality, where they are registered. 



" These copies are examined by the sous-prefect, who returns one to the 

 proprietor, and sends the other immediately to the prefect. 



" If the proprietor wishes to do the work himself, his declaration shall 

 contain, moreover, some proof that he has the means of doing so. 



"Art. 14. When no declaration has been made within the specified time, 

 it is taken for granted that the proprietor refuses to undertake the worki 



"Art. 15. The work completed by a private proprietor, with or without 

 the aid of a su\)vention, shall be subjected to the surveillance of the Forest 

 Administration. 



"Art. 16. The Forest Administration shall proceed to the execution of 

 operations to be effected on expropriated lands. 



" The completion of the work is notified by the Forest Administration to 

 the expropriated proprietor; this notification besides contains, (1) a detailed 

 account, principal and interest, of the cost of works executed from the date 

 of expropriation ; (2) an estimate of the annual expense supposed to -be 

 necessary for their preservation and maintenance. 



"Art. 17. When, in accordance with the Articles 7 of the law of 28th 

 July 1860, and 5 of the law of 8th June 1864, the expropriated proprietor 

 wishes to use his right of obtaining restitution, he makes a declaration to 

 that effect at the sous-prefecture within five years of the notification having 

 been made to him, in terms of the preceding Article. 



"In this declaration he makes it to be understood whether he wishes to 

 obtain restitution by repaying the money advanced by Government, or by 

 giving up the half of his property if reboisement is in question, or the 

 quarter if gazonnement has been efiected. 



" These declarations are registered and a deed is executed. 

 "Art. 18. If the proprietor decides on repaying the advances made by 

 the State, he produces in support of his declarations necessary proof to 

 establish that he is in a position to repay the expense of expropriation and 

 the cost of the operations, both the execution and maintenance of them, 

 both principal and interest. 



" The declaration and attesting proofs are to be addressed, within a 

 month, to our Minister of Finance, who decrees and fixes the formalities 

 and the period within which the proprietor shall have his rights restored. 



"Art. 19. If the proprietor offers to resign the half or the quarter of his 

 property, according as the ground has been rehoised or regazonned, a forest 

 official and the proprietor, or his deputy, proceed to the division of the 

 ground— that is to say, if it has been rehoised, it is divided into two lots of 

 equal value, and if it has been gazonned, into two lots, one being three 

 quarters, the other one quarter, of the value of the whole. 



" In case of dispute about the division of the lots, it is made by a third 

 party, an expert, nominated by the President of the Tribunal. 



" If one part of the work has been done by the proprietor, he is re- 

 imbursed by a proportionate deduction from the portion falling to the 



State. . J , ■■ • 1 . 



" Where the land has been rehoised the division is made by drawing lota 



when the parties disagree. 



