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regulated that the reserve supply demanded by law shall not be broken in upon. Especial 

 requests for the privilege of cutting down wood will be entertained only in cases of great 

 necessity. 



Sec. 75' ^^ soon as the approval of the clearing and agricultural plan has been obtained the 

 forester will receive the notices for wood, &c., without delay, such notices being receivable until 

 the end of October. He will also take the notices of those intending to cut. The trees to be 

 cut down must be marked by the forester's hammer, and must be marked in two places, one 

 about the height of a man, so as to be easily seen, the other near the ground and just below 

 where the cutting must be done, so that the mark will remain upon the stump even after the 

 tree has been felled. 



Sec. 76. Wlien the wood is prepared it will be taken possession of by the forester, who 

 will count or measure it, enter it upon a list under various headings which contain the different 

 prices, and the same must be handed over to the town council. Timber-wood, wood to burn, 

 and logs for the saw-mills must be again marked by the forester's hammer, and without such 

 marking in no case taken from the forest. 



Sec. 77. Wood to be sold on the tree must, before the sale, be marked and valued by the 

 forester. 



Sec. 78. The forester will leave to the town council and village officers the task of setting 

 values in their wood for sale, but when the wood is put up at auction the forester must be 

 informed as to the whole transaction, of which he will take notes, so far as the rules of the forest 

 police department may imply that notice should be taken. After an auction the protocol is 

 to be sent to the forester, who will acknowledge thereon that such and such a quantity of wood 

 was directed and allowed to be sold, and must make a record of the same and authenticate the 

 protocol. ' 



Sec. 79. The wood must not be divided among villagers from standing trees, but must be 

 divided openly after it is all gathered. 



Sec. 80. Wood for building purposes, after it has been cut down and arranged, must be 

 measured and delivered by the cubic foot. No such wood will be sold standing. 



Sec. 81. In districts where the demand for vine-props is unavoidable and where the woods 

 are on steep hillsides, and the wood cannot without great difficulty be carried out, it is per- 

 mitted to cut down, trim and measure ; then must the logs together with boughs be piled in 

 separate piles and divided among the citizens. Ninety cubic feet shall be regarded as a cord. 



Sec. 82. The privilege of dividing the wood while the trees stand is allowed only by a 

 two-thirds vote of the villagers, and under the following conditions : (a) That all those possess- 

 ing the right to gather wood will fell their trees at the same time and bring it away under the 

 supervision of the officials ; (6) provided that the entire number, or a sufficient part of those 

 having the right to cut and take away wood, will pledge themselves to make good any tres- 

 pass done, to pay for any and all trees cut down which have not been marked for cutting, to 

 pay for the loss of any seed-tree cut down where young trees are growing ; (c) and provided 

 that in forests of high trees the measuring of the trunks and the cording of the wood for burn- 

 ing is done by the forester before the wood is carted away. 



Sec. 83. The forester is in duty bound to give the town councils notice of all notices received 

 of inlentioijs to cut wood, &c., of receiving and measuring wood in regard to cultivating the 

 same, and the town councils reserve the right to appoint parties to represent them and work , 

 with the forest officials. 



Sec. 84. The entire clearing of a forest or any unusual cutting down of wood must be first 

 approved by the state officials before the village authorities proceed. 



concerning rules relating to corporation forests. 



Sec. 85. The forests belonging to corporations must be treated in the same manner under 

 the forest rules expressed in sections 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 83, 84, with the exception that 

 instead of the village officials, representatives of the corporations must act in conjunction with 

 the forest authorities. 



