148 THE FOREST LANDS OF FINLAND. 
tion; and the subjoined rules were laid down by the 
same high authority :— 
‘ Helsingfors, May 2d, 1874.—We, Alexander II., &c., &c., 
make known that since the Economic Department of the 
Senate for Finland have come to Us with a humble 
representation as to the reconstruction of Evois Forest 
Tnstitute, in a manner suitable to the demands of the 
present time, and with this view have proposed that the 
instruction in the Institute for the future, while retaining 
its fundamental plan, should nevertheless be so arranged 
as to take principally a practical direction; We, in har- 
mony with this, confirmed by what the Governor-General 
has found to be good on the subject, while abolishing the 
Decree of the 15th April 1859, concerning the organisation 
of the Institute, lay down the following directions for the 
future action of the said Institute :— 
‘1. The Forest Institute, together with the Crown parks 
of Evois and Wesijako thereto belonging, shall be placed 
under the strict superintendence of a Director, who shall 
likewise participate in communicating instruction, and who 
shall conduct the practical exercises of the pupils in the 
field; besides him a Teacher shall be installed in the 
Institution, who shall aid the Forest-Master for the said 
Crown parks in the practical instruction of the students. 
‘2. The Director and Teacher shall be entitied to a 
pension for themselves, their widows, and children, accord- 
ing to the rules laid down for the Civil Service. While 
the Director shall be nominated by Us, on the suggestion 
of the Economic Department of the Senate, the Teacher is 
to be installed by the said Department of the Senate as 
soon as the service in the prescribed order renders it 
necessary. 
‘3. Exclusively of the higher scientific ends for which 
instruction is communicated, in the future instruction 
shall be given in forest science, geology, the science of 
engineering, agriculture, forest law, map drawing, and 
linear drawing. 
‘4, [he number of the ordinary pupils, the extent of 
