240 FORESTRY IN SWITZERLAND. 



BOOKS ON FORESTRY FORWARDED HEREWITH. 



As supplementary to or corroborative of the facts contained 'in this 

 report, I have collected from various official and other sources a number 

 of works bearing on the details of Swiss forestry service, and forward the 

 same herewith, as being of great value for reference in the framing of a for- 

 estry system in our own country. These works are as follows : 



1. Dienst-Instruktionen fiir den Oberforstmeister des Kantons Zurich. 



2. Dienst-Instruktionen fur die Forster iiber die Staats-Waldungen des Kantons Zurich. 



3. Dienst-Instruktionen fur die Gemeinde und Genossenschafts-Forster des Kantons Zurich. 



4. Kanton Zurich. Forstgesetze. 



5. VoUziehungs-Verordnung zum eidg. und kant. Forstgesetze, vom. 26. April 1879. 



6. Forst-Statistik des Kantons Zurich. 



7. Bericht des eidg. Handels- und Landwirthschafts-Departements uber seine Geschaftsfuh- 

 rung im Jahr 1885. 



8. Die Sturme vom 25. Februar, 25. Juni und 5. Dezember 1879, *c. 

 g. Etat der schweizerischen Forstbeamten, &c. 



10. Mittheilungen der Anstalt zur Prufung von Baumaterialien am eidg. Polytechnikum in 

 Ziirich. 



11. Die Lauinen der Schweizer Alpen, von J. Coaz, eidg. Ober-Forst-Inspektor. 



12. Der Frost-Schaden des Winters 1879-80, &c. 



13. Instruktion flir die Detailvermessung der Waldungen, &c. 



14. Programm der eidg. polytechnischen Schule in Zurich, fur das Schuljahm i886'-87. 



GEORGE L. CATLIN, 



Consul. 



United States Consulate, 



Zurich, April 23, 1887. 



SWISS FEDERAL FORESTRY LAW. 



[Adopted March 24, 1876.] 

 I. — Federal supervision. 



ARTICLE I . The federal union shall have supervision of the forestry service in the Swiss 

 mountain districts. 



Art. ;:. This supervision embraces (i) all the territory embraced in the cantons of Uri, 

 Schwyz, Unterwalden, Glarus, Appenzell, Graubunden, Tessen, atnd Valais, and (2) the 

 mountainous sections of the territory of the cantons of Zurich, Berne, Lucerne, Zug, Freiburg, 

 St. Galle, and Waadt. The boundary lines determining what mountainous sections of the 

 last-mentioned cantons are to be subject to federal supervision, shall be established by the 

 national council jointly with the several cantonal governments. In cases of failure to agree 

 as to forestry lines, the federal assembly shall decide. 



Art. 3. All protective forests, as well as cantonal, township, and corporation forests (even 

 when not classed as protective forests), within the federal forest territory come under the con- 

 trol of the federal union. To private forests, when not classed as protective ones, the provi- 

 sions of ardcles ii, 14 (Lemma 2, 3, 4), 15, 20, and 27 (Nos. 2, 4, 8, and 9) are alone 

 applicable. 



