no FORESTRY IN GERMANY. 



Sec. 176. The violation of the statute in regard to protection against fire (sections 

 60-67) will be punished by fines ranging from 30 kreutzers (22 cents) to 20 gulden (^8.50). 

 The violation of the statute relating to the building of houses, &c., in the immediate neighbor- 

 hood of the forest, especially the opening of workshops or wood-yards in such buildings (sec- 

 tions 57-59) will be punished by fines ranging from 5 to 30 gulden (;$2.25 to J12.75) with the 

 addition of the assessed damages and the tearing down of the buildings erected. The viola- 

 tion of such other forest ordinances, for which no fixed or definite punishment has been 

 assigned, will be punished by fines ranging from 15 kreutzers to 5 gulden (3J cents to S2.i2j). 



Sec. 177. The violation of the forestry statutes by officials employed in looking after the 

 rights of villages or corporations will be visited upon each official guilty of the violation of a 

 statute by a fine or fines ranging from i gulden to 100 gulden (75 cents to ^42.50). 



Sec. 178. Private owners who violate the forest statutes, the observance of which, by sec- 

 tion 88, they are distinctly and absolutely bound, will be punished exactly the same as others 

 who violate such statutes. 



In cases where the question of violation on the part of a private owner refers to cultivating 

 or using the woods, gathering forest products, &c., then will they be punished by fines ranging 

 from I to 50 gulden, if they are summoned according to paragraphs 89 or 92 and 95, or if the 

 damaged third party mentioned in section gi proceeds against him. 



PROCEEDINGS FOR THE PREVENTING AND PUNISHMENT OF FOREST TRESPASS — CONCERNING 

 THE CARE' OF THE FOREST — THE FOREST GUARDS. 



Sec. 179. For protecting the woods a sufficient number of guards must be appointed. Only 

 (young) men of age and of good character can be chosen for such service. Foresters appointed 

 by nobles and landlords, as well as those appointed by corporations and towns, must be ap- 

 iwoved by the state forest officials before they enter upon duty, and in case they already possess 

 the right they may continue to exercise it unless the state officials object. 



Sec. 180. The choice of foresters will be made from the district voters by the district 

 officials after approval by the constituted forest officials. 



Each wood guard, including those appointed by private owners, will receive his instructions 

 from the forest authorities, and will be sworn into service by the district officials. When in 

 service a forester must wear his uniform or badge of office. 



Sec. 181. The pay of a forest guard in village forests will be paid by the town council and 

 will bo proportioned to the size and difficulties of his charge, always, however, being a decent 

 salary. The salary will be fixed and definite, and shall be appointed or fixed by the district 

 authorities with the approval of the forest bureau. 



Foresters serving under other classes of owners of forests will have their pay fixed in the 

 same manner except that the approval of the forest bureau alone will be sufficient. 



The guard can demand that he be paid monthly. Claims againstthe foresters' wages by 

 pawn, checks, distraint, &c., are not permitted. 



Every agreement by which an official is promised a part of the proceeds of fines, &c., or 

 where he may profit in proportion, as the fine is large or small, is forbidden. 



Sec. 182. Different owners of forests, as towns, corporations or private persons whose forests 

 are so situated that a general and particular oversight of all may be arranged in common, may, 

 with the approval of the forest bureau, appoint and pay officials appointed by such owners con- 

 jointly, each man's payment to be settled before hand, and the forester must know from whose 

 hands he is to expect his pay. 



In case a forest owner can neither agree with others upon a common guard nor appoint one 

 for himself within a certain prescribed time, then the forest authorities will propose guards to 

 the district officials, who will appoint the same and fix their salaries. 



Sec. 183. Tlie forest treasury will pay one-half of all costs of cases in districts where the 

 trespass has been committed, and charge it to the account of those who have to pay the 

 guards; private owners or other kind of owners must then make up this half. 



