[INDOCHINE] Recueil de 17 Règlements forestiers

An important and exceedingly rare collection of administrative documents relating to the forest management system established by France in Indochina.

- I. Decree reorganizing the Forestry Service in Cochinchina (1892, 20 pp.).

II. Decree reorganizing the Forestry Service in Cochinchina (1894, 12 pp.).

• - III. Decree of 17 October 1905, amending that of 7 April 1904, regulating the forest regime in Cochinchina (1905, 8 pp.).
• - IV. Decree setting forest tariffs for the year 1895 (1895, 12 pp.).
• - V. Loi nghi dinh phép dang lam (1894, 22 pp.).
• - VI. Decree concerning penalties in forestry matters (1895, 8 pp.).
• - VII. Decree organizing the Forestry Service in Cochinchina, dated 31 July 1896 (1896, 16 pp.).
• - VIII. [MANUSCRIPT] Decree of 7 February 1901 [establishing a forestry service for all of Indochina] (1901, 6 unnumbered leaves).
• - IX. Decrees concerning forestry regulations in Tonkin (1904, 3 unnumbered leaves, 20 pp.).
• - X. Draft decree establishing penalties in forestry matters, applicable throughout Indochina (1904, 18 single-sided ff.).
• - XI. Decree organizing the indigenous staff of the Forestry Service (1906, 8 pp., bilingual text in French and Vietnamese).
• - XII. Decree regulating logging in protected forest areas. Terms and conditions (1905, 10 pp.).
• - XIII. Decree regulating the forest regime in Cambodia (1905, 13 pp.).
• - XIV. Decree regulating the forest regime in Annam (1906, 16 pp.).
• - XV. Decree promulgating in Indochina the decree of 11 July 1907 establishing the procedure and penalties applicable in forestry matters. 18 September 1907 (1907, 16 pp.).
• - XVI. Decree of 23 December 1907 revising forest royalties (1908, 3 pp.).
• Off-topic: [XVII]. Two-Year Military Service. Law of 21 March 1905, amending the law of 15 July 1889 on army recruitment and reducing active service to two years, promulgated in Indochina on 29 April 1905. Hanoi, F.-H. Schneider, 1905, 80 pp.

Contemporary red half shagreen binding with corners, flat spine decorated with triple gilt fillets, some rubbing to spine, joints split at head, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, a few tears to edges, bumped corners, original wrappers preserved (some with tears, losses or stains), period binding.

A very rare compilation.