158 THE FOREST LANDS OF FINLAND. 
Institution; in regard to which examination a month 
previously an advertisement shall, by the Director’s care, 
be inserted in the official gazette of the country; and a 
special notice of the examination shall be sent in to the 
Director of the Agricultural Department of the Imperial 
Senate. In this examination, which should not extend 
over three days, questions shall be put to the pupils in all 
the theoretical and practical subjects of instruction in 
which they have been instructed during the course of the 
year, and the pupils ought also to give proof at the same 
time of their acquaintance with, and their expertness in, 
the work of a practical forester. 
‘Section 28. The pupils in the second or higher class 
who wish to obtain a certificate of study from the 
Institution shall, before the public examination takes 
place, be subjected to examination. by each teacher. 
‘Section 29. Immediately after the close of the examina- 
tion the Director and Teacher shall come together in the 
presence of the Chief Director or his deputy for the 
consideration and determination of the following matters :— 
1st, what character shall be inscribed on the certificate of 
each pupil; 2nd, which pupils shall go out of the Institution 
either with a complete diploma as forest conductor, or 
merely with certificates of study and progress; 3rd, which 
pupils can be removed from the first to the second class, 
The determination come to shall be inserted in the 
matriculation register, and publicly read out to the 
pupils. 
“Section 30. The diploma for the degree of Forest Con- 
ductor shall be written out and subscribed by the Director 
and by both the Teachers, and must contain the results 
given as above of his examinations. To the pupil who 
wishes to leave the Institution without having been 
approved by public examination, the Director and both 
of the Teachers shall conjointly give him a certificate, 
wherein in accordance with the matriculation register 
shall be set down in full what knowledge he brought with 
him at his entrance into the Institntion, the time he has 
