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Art. 39. By regulations, to be published, after hearing the opinion of the council of state, 

 will be established the limits and methods of proceeding in regard to complaints, and provision 

 will be made for whatever else may be necessary in the execution of the present law. 



We order that the present, furnished with the seal of the state, shall be placed in the official 

 collection of laws and decrees of the kingdom of Italy, ordering all whom it may concern to 

 observe it and to make it observed as a law of the state. 



Given at PoUingo, the 20th June, 1877. 



VICTOR EMANUEL. 



GENOA. 



REPORT OF VICE-CONSUL SCERNI. 



The area of the forests in the Province of Genoa is 641,635 acres, of 

 which 332,500 are under the forestal rules, and 309,135 acres are free from 

 any rules. 



Of the above 332,500 acres, 4,083 acres belong to the government, 40,000 

 acres to the community, and 288,417 acres to private individuals. 



Among the forests of this province the one named "Cadibona" belongs 

 to the government. It is situated in the community of Savona, and its area 

 is 833 acres. In this forest the people of that district have a right to gather 

 the dried leaves, dead wood, chestnuts, acorns, &c., that may be found on 

 the ground. 



The forestal administration has under its charge only the forest belonging 

 to the government, and it enforces an observance of all the rules prescribed 

 by the forestal law. 



It does not interfere with forests belonging to private individuals unless 

 asked to do. so. 



The forestal service is divided into two "branches, technical and custodial. 

 The whole service is assigned to an inspector. The province is divided into 

 three districts, at the head of which there is an under-inspector, who, under 

 the direction of the inspector, prepares the contracts for the sale of the timber 

 belonging to the government or to the districts. He also sustains the defini- 

 tion of the forestal crimes before the judge. 



The care of the forest is maintained by nine brigadieri, ten vice-brigadicri 

 and twenty-six guards residing in the nine brigades and ten sections of 

 brigades, among which the territory is divided. 



The income from forests belonging to the government and to the districts 

 from the sale of timber is on an average from 20 to 25 francs per two and 

 one-half acres. The expense of administration amounts to about 0.3458 francs 

 per two and one-half acres. The benefits derived from the forests are that 

 they keep the earth together on the steep declines of the Appenine moun- 

 tains, fertilizing the same with the falling leaves and spoils of vegetation, 

 promoting thus a great absorption of the falling rains, and preventing an 

 instantaneous evaporation. 



