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partment with the execution of the present decree, which shall be 

 inserted in the Bulletin des Lois. 



These enactments tell this much of the history of the work : 

 that the views of M. Bremontier commended themselves to the 

 execution of the Eepublic, and that he was entrusted with the 

 execution of the work at the public expense, under legitimate 

 restriction ; that the work was ordered to be begun at the Dunes 

 of La Teste in Gascony, in the first year of the present century, and 

 seven years later they were begun -on the Landes ; that the work was 

 oarried out with if possible greater energy under Napoleon the 1st, 

 and subsequently under Louis XIV ; and that, carried out previously 

 under the Minister of the Interior, they were in 1862 transferred to 

 the control of the Minister of Finance, and entrusted to the Forest 

 Administration. 



