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Art. 3. Persons desirous of obtaining leases of land shall make application on Form I hereto annexed, and persons desirous of obtaining grants of seeds and seedlings shall make application on Form II before the last day of September in each year, and such applications shall be forwarded through the Director of the Civil Administration Bureau within whose jurisdiction the applicant resides to the Governor-General of Kwantung.

Art. 4. Afforestation areas shall be free of taxation,

Art. 5. The Governor-General of Kwantung shall give to persons obtaining a lease of land belonging to the Government a certificate of lease bearing the conditions of the said lease.

When seeds and seedlings are given free of charge, conditions shall sometimes be imposed,

Additional Regulation.

This Notification shall take effect from the date of promulgation.

4. Proportion of afforestation to be effected (annually).

First year ( year of Meiji).

Area.

Kind and number of seedlings. Number to each tsubo.

Cost of planting, yen. Number of labourers,

(Cost of construction of forest roads and strips of ground to be left unplanted to prevent

the spread of fire to be included)

Second year (as in case of first year).

FORM II.

Application for Grant of Seeds and Seedlings.

Name of association, village, or hamlet. Description of Government-owned land (applied

for).

Annexes.

FORM I.

Application for Lease free of charge of Land belonging to the Government for the purpose of

Afforestation.

NAME, or name of association, village, hamlet, &c.

Area of Government-owned land (applied for). Boundaries of land for which application is made :--

Eastern boundary,

Southern boundary,

Western boundary,

Northern boundary,

ravine.

peak.

I beg to roquest that land may be leased to me as above free of charge for the purpose of afforestation. I inclose herewith sketch map, together with a statement of the method (to be employed) in the said undertaking, and beg to make application in accordance with the Regula- tious for the encouragement of afforestation in the Kwantung Province.

Day, month, year.

To the Governor-General of Kwantung,

Name.

Residence.

(Or name and residence of representative of

Association or

Village.)

Statement of Method (to be employed) in the said undertaking.

1. Área of Government-owned land (applied for),

Apportionment. :—

Afforestation area:

Roads, strips of ground left unplanted to prevent the spread of fire. Other areas not to be afforested.

2. Method of planting, kind and quantity of seeds and seedlings.

3. Capital invested and method of superintendence.

This paragraph only applies to cases of afforestation by associations or villages. Under capital invested" the amount of money and the method of supply of labour must be given in outline, and under "superintendence" the protection of the afforestation

area.

KIND of seedlings (seeds). Number (quantity).

(In case of land not owned by the Government), area in tsubo of land to be planted. Number of plants to be planted per tsubo.

month of the

I am desirous of effecting afforestation as above, commencing in the

year of Meiji, by the month, and I beg to make application in accordance with the Regulations for the encouragement of afforestation in the Kwanting Province.

Day, month, year,

To the Governor-General of Kwantung.

Name.

Residence.

(In cases of associations or villages)--

Name of representative. Residence.

Inclosure 3 in No. 1,

Extract from the “ Manshu Nichi-nichi Shimbun" of August 8, 1908.

(Translation.)

THE AFFORESTATION PLANS OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S OFFICE.

IT is but human nature for us, who are natives of a land of lovely scenery, to yearn in dry and uninteresting Manchuria after our motherland, and, this being so, not only is it impossible for residents to feel that they are making this country a place of permanent abode, but, further, the development of Manchuria is in no small degree affected. With a view, by the encouragement of afforestation within the Kwantung Province, on the one hand to improving the scenery and directly affording very great relief to residents, and on the other hand to bringing about the development of forestry and agriculture, it is said that the Kwantung Government-General will lease free of charge mountain land and uncultivated land to persons whom it considers suitable, and will further make free grants of seedlings and seeds to persons desirous of obtaining them. These Afforestation Encouragement Regulations are to be published to-day.

We hear that the Government-General proposes to plant trees in suitable places along the streets in Dairen and Port Arthur, to undertake afforestation in the surroundings of those cities and in the neighbourhood of Lushutun, and, further, to plant trees at the sources of the water supplies of Port Arthur and Dairen and to devote its attention to the upkeep of those sources. As far as funds permit, afforestation will be effected in localities that do not admit of being intrusted to private enterprise and on land that is unsuitable for agriculture, vegetables, and fruit trees, as well as seedlings, will where necessary be grown in the Port Arthur and Kinchou nurseries, fruit trees and seedlings will be cultivated in the Dairen agricultural experimentai station, in addition to the work hitherto carried on there, and the Port Arthur nursery garden will be greatly extended and made into a botanical garden. By this means, in addition to the supply of seedlings for afforestation purposes, experiments will first of all be conducted with trees of every variety, and eventually a simple school of agriculture

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