FORESTRY IN GERMANY. 53 



supplies from other sources, are subjected to constantly^ increasing prices. 

 Still, the forestal administration try their best to produce as much timber and 

 lumber as possible, disregarding more and more the production of wood for 

 fuel. Some manufacturers, particularly frame, moulding, and furniture 

 makers, would gladly derive supplies from America, but, notwithstanding the 

 formidable progress of this industry in Germany, the high duties of Germany 

 appear to form, at least at present, an insurmountable obstacle. 



DUTIES ON WOOD IMPORTED INTO GERMANY. 



Timber and cabinet wood: i. Worked or hewn with axe or saw roughly 

 or solely in a diagonal direction, with or without bark, oaken barrel staves, 

 per 100 kilograms, 5 cents, or 28}^ cents per i solid cubic meter. 2. With 

 the axe roughly hewn in the direction of the longitudinal axis, or otherwise 

 prepared or split than by rough hewing, barrel staves not coming under i, 

 unpeeled osiers and hooping rods, hoops, felloes, and spokes, per 100 kilo- 

 grams, 11^ cents, or, per i sold cubic meter, 59 cents. 3. Sawn in the 

 direction of the longitudinal axis, unplaned boards, sawn square timber, and 

 other sawn and cut articles, per 100 kilograms, 23)^ cents, or, per i solid 

 cubic meter, $-s..^2j4- 



ADDRESSES OF DEALERS IN WOOD SEEDS AND SPROUTS. 



E. Senary, Erfurt. 



L. Spath, Rixdorf, near Berlin. 



Le Cog & Co., Darmstadt. 



Bottcher & Voelker, Grosstaharz, near Gotha. 



COPIES OF FORESTAL LAWS'. 



I beg' leave to enclose copies of the following Prussian forest laws : 



1. Forestal TheftActofMarcli3l, 1837. [Outofprint. Replacedby act of April 15, 1878.] 



2. Act of July 6, 1875, relating to protection of forests and forest corporations. 



3. Act of August 14, 1876, relating to the administration of woods belonging to communi- 

 ties and public institutions within the eastern provinces of Prussia. 



4. Act of April 15, 1878, relative to forestal thefts. 



5. Act of April I, 1880, relating to forest and field police. 



GERMAN PENAL CODE. 



Sec. 117, ibid. Provides that whoever obstructs by threats or force foresters, forest owners 

 or their officials in the legitimate exercise of their official duties shall be punished by impris- 

 onment for a term not exceeding three years. 



Sec. n8. If such resistance or assaults result in bodily injury of the person assaulted, 

 imprisonment in a house of correction for a time not exceeding ten years. 



Sec 119. If such acts are committed jointly by several persons, the punishment in each 

 case can be increased by one-half beyond the above-stated terms. 



Sec 308. Wilfully setting woods on fire, if there are mitigating circumstances, imprison- 

 ment not less than six months. 



Sec 368. Neglect to destroy caterpillars, as prescribed by law or police regulations, shall 

 be punished with a fine up to 60 marks or imprisonment not exceeding fourteen days. 



