108 Nature protected 
in each province a committee is to be 
constituted, and the Prefect is to be in 
the chair. The committee has to make 
out a Hst of places of natural beauty, 
the protection of which might be of 
interest from the artistic point of view. 
The proprietors of such localities are 
to be invited to bind themselves 
neither to destroy them nor to change 
their character. If this is agreed 
upon, the natural monument is to be 
entered on the list, by order of the 
Minister ; but if not, the Prefect or 
the Mayor may be authorised to in- 
stitute proceedings of expropriation. 
Once such a change has been made, 
any alteration is punishable with a 
penalty of loo to 3,000 francs. 
A Societe pour la protection des 
paysages'' was founded in 1902. This 
society publishes a quarterly bulletin, 
which contains many papers on the 
care of natural monuments. 
