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these monuments is to be prepared by 
the State Office every year. 
Public Corporations 
Various pubh'c bodies have followed 
the example set by the government, 
and others have taken up the subject. 
The province of Rhenish Prussia 
granted 10,000, and the corpora- 
tions of Cologne and Bonn ;i^5,ooo 
and ;^2,500 respectively for protecting 
the Siebengebirge against spoliation. 
The province of Slesvic-Holstein paid 
£^Oy and a district (Sonderburg) paid 
;^32, for preserving a large boulder. 
The administrative body of a West 
Prussian land district ( Karthaus)bought 
land containing a remarkable moraine, 
and thus preserved it. The corporation 
of Danzig made a reservation in one of 
the town forests for protecting a small 
lake with a rare variety of fish [Phoximis 
