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In case the exact place where the trespass or theft occurred cannot be known, or in case 

 it has been done outside of the territorial limits of Baden, then the limit of jurisdiction will be 

 defined or declared in accordance with the statutes relating to such cases. 



PERIODICAL DECLARATION OF SENTENCES. 



Sec. 3. The sentences will be proclaimed periodically, and will be based upon the registers 

 kept and handed in by the forest officials. The registers will contain a statement of how 

 great a sentence should be pronounced against each case reported. In urgent cases, upon 

 request of the forest officials, cases may be settled at once, even though they do not come in 

 the order registered. 



COMMANDS TO PUNISH. 



Sec. 4. The district judge will at once order punishment against all parties to be punished 

 on the grounds of the foresters' register. 



If there do not stand too weighty reasons for doing otherwise, the demand made by the 

 forest authorities will, in each case, be put in operation. 



PROTEST ON the PART OF A THIRD PARTY. 



Sec. 5. The legal representative of a suspected party, such as the husband of a suspected 

 woman, can, within the time allowed by law, enter protest. 



Upon such a protest, the statutes and rules that operate in case of direct protest shall be 

 effectual. 



Sec. 6. All evidence in a case will be demanded by the district judge without delay ; the 

 same may afterwards be proved judicially. 



GENERAL INDICTMENT. 



Sec. 7. For all the cases of a forest district against the sentences of >vhich protest has 

 been entered or which have been referred to the higher courts, &c., will, as a rule, be tried in 

 a bunch. 



TAKING THE OATH. 



Sec. 8. Persons intrusted with the care of woods or forests can once for all be sworn into 

 office. (l) If they are appointed by the state or a corporation ; (2) if they have been appointed 

 by other forest owners with the consent of the forest officials. 



Sec. 9. The swearing in will take place before the district court in the district where the 

 party to take the oath lives. He must swear that he will report all actions or acts against the 

 forest laws against the forests trusted or to be trusted to his care ; further, that in all his official 

 actions in regard to the same as far as he knows he will state the truth, that he will conceal 

 nothing, add nothing and that the woods or forests intrusted to his care will be guarded in a 

 most impartial manner so far as his knowledge or conscience can guide. 



A complete record of the swearing in of an official will be transmitted at once to the dis- 

 trict where the newly-sworn-in official is to labor. 



PROTOCOLS. 



Sec. 10. As a common protocol for grand action the forest register must serve, in which, 

 for each case, the principal actions in the lower court, sentence, &c.,must be entered. Reasons 

 for the sentence must be given if it does not accord with the definite parts laid down by sec- 

 tion 3. 



COSTS. ' 



Sec. II. The suspected party, as well as the party sentenced, whose protest has not been 

 allowed, must pay the expenses incurred by their appeal or protest. 



