30 LEGISLATION RELATIVE TO 



3. The works shall be executed, the expenditure made, and the 

 accounts rendered, according to the mode adopted for the service 

 des Ponts et Chaussees. 



" 4. In succession as the sowings reach an age which shall be 

 afterwards determined, they shall cease , to be entrusted to the 

 Director des Ponts et Chaussees ; but he shall transfer them to the 

 General Administration of Forests. 



" 5. The General Administration of Forests shall furnish, free of 

 charge, to the Direction des Ponts et Chaussees, the seeds, young trees, 

 and boughs, yielded by the forests which they administer, which 

 shall be necessary for the fixation and sowing of the Dunes. 



" 6. The Ingenieurs des Ponts et Chaussees are authorised to require 

 assistance of the forest agents and guards in the tours of inspection 

 which they shall have to make over the whole extent of the Dunes. 



" 7. It shall subsequently be decided what special measures shall 

 be taken to prevent and to repress the offences which tend to destroy 

 or to injure the works of sowing the Dunes. 



" 8. A regulation of our Director-General des Ponts et Chaussees, 

 approved by our Minister, Secretary of State for the Interior, shall 

 determine the advance of the works, their range and their surveillance. 

 (This was done by a regulation dated 7th October, 1817.) 



"9. The orders of 2nd July, and 20th September, 1807, are 

 abrogated, together with all other provisions contrary to the present 

 ordinance. 



" 10. Our Minister, Secretary of State for the Interior, is charged 

 with the execution of the present ordinance." 



On 29th April, 1862, was issued a decree, which places the 

 superintendance of the Dunes within the duties of the Minister of 

 Finance. * The provisions of this are as follows : 



" Art. 2. The works of fixation, of maintenance, of conservation, and 

 of exploitation of the Dunes in the maritime coast are placed within 

 the range of duties of the Minister, Secretary of State of Finance, 

 and they are entrusted to the Forest Administration. 



" 3. These provisions shall come into operation on 1st July, 1862. 



" 4. Our Ministers of State, of Finance, of Agriculture, of Commerce, 

 and of Public Works, are charged each in what relates to his de- 



* A law appears to have been issued in 1857, enjoining the draining and 

 planting of all lands belonging to communities within the district of the 

 Landes, but this I have not seen. 



