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administration shall be authorised to see to the plantation at their 

 expense ; they shall retain possession of the Dunes, and collect the 

 proceeds of the fellings which may then be made, until complete 

 recovery shall have been made of the expenses which have been 

 incurred in the case, and of interest thereon ; after this the Dunes 

 shall return to the proprietors, under burden of maintaining satis- 

 factorily the plantations thereon. 



" 6. In time coming no felling de plants oVoyats, of mat grass epines 

 maritimes, pine trees, silver firs, larches, and other arenaceous plants, 

 ministering to the conservation of the Dunes, shall be made without 

 the special authorisation of the Director-General des Ponts et 

 Ghaussees, and on the advice of the Prefects. 



" 7. There shall be established Guards for the conservation of the 

 plantations actually existing on the Dunes, or which shall be made 

 there in time to come ; their appointment, their number, their duties, 

 their salary, their uniform, shall be regulated after the mode in use, 

 for the guards of communal woods. 



" Offences shall be prosecuted before the tribunal, and punished 

 conformally to the provisions of the Penal Code. 



" 8. "We do not design, by the present decree, to innovate aught on 

 what is practised for the plantations which are being executed in the 

 Dunes of the departments of the Landes, and of the department of 

 the Gironde. 



" 9. Our Ministers of the Interior, and of Finances, are charged 

 each in what concerns him, with the execution of this decree." 



After the restoration there was decreed the following Ordinance : 



"Ordinance of 5th February, 1817, relative to the fixation and the 

 sowing of the Dunes on the departments of the Gironde and the 

 Landes. 



" Louis, &c. — On the reports of our Ministers, Secretaries of State 

 in the departments of the Interior and of Finance, our Council of 

 State being heard, we have ordained, and do ordain as follows : 



" Art. 1. The works of fixation and of sowing the Dunes in the 

 departments of the Gironde and of the Landes shall be resumed in 

 1817. 



" These works shall, in regard to execution, be directed by our 

 Director-General des Ponts et Ghaussees, under the authority of our 

 Minister of the Interior. 



2. The necessary funds for this operation shall be charged in the 

 budget des Ponts et Ghaussees, the yearly credit must not exceed 

 90,000 francs for the two departments. 



