28 LEGISLATION RELATIVE TO 



By decree of 12th July, 1808, it was declared : " Art. 22. There 

 shall be established in the department of the Landes a commission 

 for the plantation of the Dunes. 



" This commission shall be organised in the same manner as that 

 established at Bordeaux in execution of the decree of the 18th 

 Messidor, an, IX." 



On the 14th December, 1810, the following decree was passed by 

 Napoleon : 



"Napoleon, &c. — On the report of our Minister of the Interior, 

 our Council of State having been heard, we have decreed and do 

 decree as follows : 



. " Art. 1. In the maritime departments there shall be taken measures 

 for the sowing, the plantation, and the culture of vegetables known 

 to be the most suitable for the fixation of Dunes. 



" 2. To this effect the Prefects of all the departments in which are 

 Dunes shall cause to be prepared in their respective departments by 

 the Ingenieurs des Fonts et Ghaussees, a chart of the Dunes which are 

 susceptible of being fixed by plantations appropriate to their nature ; 

 they shall cause to be distinguished on their charts the Dunes which 

 belong to the domains, those which belong to communes, and those 

 which are the property of private persons. 



" 3. Each Prefect shall draw out, or cause to be drawn out, in 

 support of these charts, a memoir on the most advantageous manner 

 of proceeding, acoording to localities, in the sowing and planting of 

 the Dunes ; they shall annex to this report a draft of regulations, 

 which shall contain the measures of administration the most 

 appropriate to his department, which can be usefully employed to 

 effect the end desired. 



" 4. The charts, memoirs, and drafts of regulations, got up and 

 drawn out in execution of the foregoing articles, shall be sent by the 

 Prefects to our Minister of the Interior, who can, on the report of our 

 Director-General des Fonts et Ghaussees, order the plantation if the 

 Dunes do not inolude any private property ; and, in the contrary case, 

 he shall make his report to us, to be by us deoided in Council of State 

 in the form adopted for regulations of publio administration. 



" 5. In the oases in which the Dunes shall be the property of private 

 persons, or of communes, the charts shall be published, and posted 

 up in the forms prescribed by the law of 8th March, 1810; and if 

 the said private persons or communes find themselves incapable of 

 exeouting the works oommanded, or refuse to do so, the publio 



