I02 FORESTRY IN GERMANY. 



RULES CONCERNING SINGLE RIGHTS TO THE WOOD. 



Sec. io6. A person possessing the right to take wood must give notice to the forester before 

 he takes any away; and in case of private forests the owner must be notified. The counting 

 and measuring of the wood must take place and be recorded before it is carted or carried 

 away. 



Sec. 107. In cases where the right and title to the wood expresses a definite right it mu.st 

 be carried out in accordance with such definition and in no other way. In cases where no 

 definite measure is laid down in the right, then the person will be allowed enough for his 

 household uses and purposes and no more. The forest owner can demand, where no definite 

 amount has been specified, that a definite amount to hold good for all time be specified. 



In cases, however, where a definite amount is specified in the right the amount drawn and 

 cut must never go beyond such a point as will encroach upon the reserve necessary for the 

 perpetration of the forest. With the provision, however, that the person possessing a right and 

 being curtailed in its enjoyment by the owner infringing upon the reserves CEin make claims 

 for indemnity and have them allowed. 



Sec. io8. Wood for building purposes, drawn by any person having a right to the same, 

 must be used within two years after it has been taken from the forest. If it has not been used 

 the forest owner can not only take it back, but can also make claim for any and all damages 

 that may have resulted to the wood during the two years. Upon application, however, to the 

 forest authorities an extension of time, in no case more than six months, may be granted. 



Sec. 109. In case no particular district is indicated in a right, from which the person may 

 draw his wood, then must he take it from any and all parts where wood is being cut or cleared 

 in cultivating and caring for the forest. 



Sec. 110. Where a right does not define the kind of wood a person must have, then must 

 he take the wood as it is cut from old or young forests, taking his share of the wood as it 

 runs, small and large, although he can make other ^reement with the owner if said owner 

 will agree. 



Sec. III. In case a certain kind of wood is defined in a right, then must that kind of 

 wood be delivered so long as the specified wood can be found in the forest where he has his 

 right. If, however, the owner of the forest has so decreased the size of his forest that it can 

 no longer yield the kind specified, then can the possessor of the right make claim either for an 

 indemnity in nJoney or the stipulated worth in some other kind of wood from some other part 

 of the forest, which, according to the forest laws, may be given. 



Sec. 112. A forest owner has a right to demand a statement, certified to by a master- 

 buider or master-carpenter, of how much wood for building purposes a person, possessing a 

 right to the same, needs. The amount be specified in cubic feet. 



Sec. 113. When wagon-makers have rights to wood to be «sed in their business and make 

 demands for the same, the forest owner can demand a written statement, certified to by the 

 town council, when it is pole wood, and by some person well acquainted with the kinds and 

 amounts needed of other wood. 



Sec. 114. The forest owner can demand that, for special objects only, tlie kind of wood 

 suited to such object be delivered. 



Sec. lis. In cases where the right is not otherwise defined, the right to building wood and 

 wood for burnmg is understood, and under the right to building wood, cut wood and wood 

 prepared for fencmg, for building stagings or for making pumps is not included under the 

 right. 



Sec. 116. A person having the right to small bough wood only must not exercise his right 

 to take the same before the trees are felled, the trunks trimmed and cut into length and the 

 wood for burning piled up into cords ; then he may begin to gather. The cutting off of green 

 or withered boughs to a certain height is only allowed when it is specified in the right 

 / Sec. 1 1 7.. As wind-fall wood must be regarded as trees (single trees), blown down by the 

 wind and not those blown over but having their roots still fast in the earth, nor even boughs 



