FORESTRY IN ITALY. l6l 



firewood are measured by weight, and the annual production of planks an,d 

 firewood is about 78,321,198 pounds. 



The chief kinds of Italian lumber are fir, pine, larch, oak, poplar and 

 chestnut. 



I am informed from official sources that there are annually imported into 

 Italy, from Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain and the United States and 

 Canada, about 19,315,947 cubic feet of rough lumber, and about 6,207,932 

 pounds of planks, &c., chiefly of resinous woods. 



In 1 885 the imports of lumber from the United States and Canada (which 

 are classed together in the custom house statistics) were as follows : 



Lumber (rough or roughly squared) 896,254 cubic feet ; plapks and other 

 sawed wood, 1,415,040 pounds. 



No bounties on the importation of lumber are paid. The custom duties 

 levied by the Italian government on lumber are as follows : 



Lumber for cabinet-makers, sawed, per 100 kilograms (220 pounds) ^0.77^ 



Lumber, for cabinet-makers, unsawed, per 100 kilograms O-S^f 



Lumber in boards or squares, for floors, per 100 kilograms 0-77j 



Lumber, rough, hewed or square, including small boards for boxes, &c Free. 



The following dealers in shoots and seeds in the city of Rome have good 

 business reputations: Cardella, No. 145, Via Babruni ; Formilli, No. 146, 

 Via Sistina; Zamperini, No. 12, Via Condotti. 



There is but one general forest law of which I enclose a translation.. 



WILLIAM L. ALDEN, 



Consul- General. 



United States Consulate-General, 



Rome, January 25, 1887. 



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VICTOR EMANUEL II. 



By the Grace of God and the Will of the Nation, King of Italy. 



The Senate and the Chamber of Deputies have approved and We have sanctioned and do 

 promulgate the following law : 



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LANDS PLACED UNDER FOREST BOUNDS. 



Article i. There are placed under forest bounds, in accordance with the provisions of the 

 present law, all woods and lands cleared of woods on the summits or slopes of mountains as 

 far as the upper limit of the chestnut zone ; * and also those that from their character and situ- 

 ation may, in consequence of being cleared or tilled, give rise to landslips, crumblings of the 

 earth, cavingS in, avalanches, or snowslips, and may, to the public injury, interfere with water 

 courses or change the character of the soil, or in any way injure the local hygienic conditions. 



Art. 2. Forest bounds, for reasons of public health only, can be placed only upon exist- 

 ing woods, and only in consequence of a resolution to that effect passed by the communal or 

 provincial council concerned in the matter and by the provincial sanitary council. 



*The "chestnut zone" is defined as the zone where the chestnut does or can grow, either naturally or with 

 ordinary cultivation. 



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