FORESTRY IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. 3 



B. Forest Technicists. 

 Forest inspection commissaries {caSisAforesUechniker). 



C. Forest Wards Belonging to the Category of Servants. 

 Forest wards, Class I, salary per annum, 500 florins. 

 Forest wards. Class II, salary per annum, 400 florins. 

 Forest wards. Class III, salary per annum, 300 florins. 



The forest inspectors are charged with the duty of superintending the ex- 

 ecution of all forest laws, of ekamining the condition of tjie forests, fostering 

 and furthering instructions in forest culture and acting as adjuncts to the 

 statthalter. 



From early spring until late in the fall the forest inspector should visit 

 and inspect the forests in his district and make a report of each inspecting 

 tour to the statthalter. 



The statthalter may also order the forest inspector to make special in- 

 specting tours in addition to the regular tour. 



The forest inspector is required to inspect the oliSces of the district cap- 

 tains with reference to forest affairs. 



The instructions to forest inspectors contain sufficient points, elaborately 

 presented, to fill a moderate sized pamphlet, and the gist of the whole matter 

 is that the forest inspector acts as a paternal adviser, and if need be as an im- 

 perative commander to all owners of forests in the Empire, as well as a su- 

 perintendent of imperial forests. 



He controls and commands private owners as to the manner and order in 

 which they should cut their timber, as to the necessity of replanting, the pre- 

 venting of waste, the preservation of timber against floods, and as to the dan- 

 ger and injury threatening from insects, as to fitness and capacity of the sub- 

 ordinate forest inspectors and hunters and forest wards to be employed by 

 these owners ; in short, there is not a single act of ownership which the holder 

 of the titled deeds of woodland could possibly exercise over his own domain 

 which is not directly under the control and which does not require the ap- 

 proval of the forest inspector. 



In the light of these instructions it is not at all paradoxical to say that the 

 owner of forest land in Austria must exercise extraordinary care not to be 

 guilty of trespass upon his own lands. There can be no question, however, 

 that this paternal control has achieved most excellent practical results, though 

 it is said that the discipline of forest officials has been lax and that the laws 

 and instructions have not been enforced with uniform strictness. The forest 

 technicists and forest wards are the subordinate officers of the forest instru- 

 ments by which the duties above enumerated and imposed upon the forest in- 

 spectors are practically performed. 



FOREST REGISTER (WALDKATASTER). 



In pursuance of a decree of the Ministry of Agriculture under date of July 

 3, r873, f^hc respective forest officers are required to keep a forest register of 

 each district, which specifies the number of acres covered by forest, its con- 

 dition, state of growth, &c. 



