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40. District forestmasters shall visit the township and corporation forests regularly, and that 

 as often as their duties of forest police superintendence render necessary. On such visits they 

 shall acquaint the overseers or overforesters, who, together with the forester, shall accompany 

 them whenever they visit the forest, with the necessary instructions relative to the locations of 

 the clearings and-the performance of the work of thinning out, weeding, and cultivation, and 

 shall collect materials for plans of cultivation, reports upon the same, and methods for regula- 

 ting the yield. 



41. Plans for cultivation shall at the proper time be submitted by the district forestmasters 

 to the overforester for examination, and for procuring the approval of the direction of the 

 interior thereto. 



42. The overforester shall make a report yearly to the direction of the interior concerning 

 the management of the township and corporation forests, and to this end the district forest- 

 master shall furnish him special reports at the proper time. 



43. Overseers are responsible for the execution of the rules pertaining to the plans of cul- 

 tivation and of the orders of forestry officials. They shall collect the necessary materials for 

 the annual reports of the district forestmasters, such as regulation of yield, reports on cultiva- 

 tion, &c. 



44. Any unusual consumption of wood exceeding the fixed yield, as well as other deviations 

 from the plan of cultivation or the decrees of the district forestmasters, can only occur with 

 the consent of the direction of the interior. The application and distribution of the yearly 

 forest yield are not subject to the control of the forestry police. 



III. — Forest police regdlations. 



A. — Digging up — Transfer — Distribution. 



45. Cantonal forests within the cantons shall not only remain in their present condition as 

 regards area, but where opportunity offers shall as far as possible be districted with adjacent 

 forests, while, on the other hand, smaller scattered pieces of woodland shall Be disposed of. 

 In case of such sale the direction of the interior shall see that the forest so disposed of is 

 replaced by an equivalent purchase of land. 



46. Township or corporation forests cannot, without consent of the government council, 

 be either entirely or partially dug up, transferred, distributed, or, more especially, burdened 

 with any contract for the delivery of wood or for kindred uses. In case of a mortgage, as 

 well as of a foreclosure, a forest continues subject to the existing regulations concerning town- 

 ship and corporation forests ; wh?n single parts of a forest system pass in such manner into 

 various hands, such parts continue bound to the general plan of cultivation, and mention of 

 this fact shall be made in the bill of transfer and in the bond. 



47. When, in consequence of township laws in such cases made and provided, forests are 

 burdened with claims to the wood, the manner and extent of the delivery of the same shall 

 be determined with accuracy. 



B. — Time for felling and removing timber. 



48. The time for felling begins with the commencement of September and ends with the 

 end of March. Exceptions are as follows : 



(a) In mountain forests where, owing to early snow, felling must be done sooner. 



(*) In bark forests, where the oaks cannot be stripped of bark until the sap runs. 



(c) In forests from which the wood is rafted. 



Excepting in pressing cases, no wood is to be cut during any period other than that above 

 prescribed. The clearing away of rotten wood, brush, &c., from "young undergrowths, clear- 

 ings, and artificially constructed young forest areas, may be regarded as belonging to the work 

 of cultivation and may be performed at any time. 



49. The removal of felled wood must be completed by the end of April, and neither waste 

 wood, twigs, nor bark shall be left lying in the clearing. In case wood remains lying in the 

 forest beyond the lawful time, it is the duty of every forester becoming aware of the fact to 



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