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Law No. The April 11, 1927 1,394 On Organisation And Operation Of Pescariilor

Original Language Title:  LEGE nr. 1.394 din 11 aprilie 1927 privind organizarea şi exploatarea pescariilor

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LEGE no. 1.394 1.394 of 11 April 1927 on the organisation and exploitation of fisheries
ISSUER PARLIAMENT
Published in OFFICIAL MONITOR no. 104 104 of 14 May 1927



FERDINAND I, Through the grace of God and the national will, King of Romania, To all present and future, health: The legislative assemblies voted and adopted, and We sanction what follows + Chapter 1 General provisions + Article 1 The Romanian state administers the fisheries of its waters and regulates the exploitation of fishing in For this purpose it is established under the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains, and under the authority of the Ministry, an autonomous institution with the name of the General Fisheries Administration. This institution is a legal entity and is based in the capital of the Her organs are: a) the Management Board; b) Steering Committee; c) General manager. + Chapter 2 The Management Board and its powers + Article 2 The board of directors heads the administration of fisheries; it is composed of 11 members appointed for 5 years, by royal decree, after the proposal of the minister; of these, 4 are specialists. I am part of the board and the following members of law: Director General of Production and Consumption Cooperatives; Director General of Land Improvement Service; Director General of the Hydrological General Directorate; General Manager of Fisheries. Members whose term of office has expired may be appointed for a further period of 5 years. + Article 3 The members of the council can only be revoked by royal decree, following a reasoned reference of the council, presented to the minister by the president. + Article 4 The council elects members appointed a president and a vice president. The president represents the administration in justice and towards third parties. The minister can either take part in the meeting, presiding. The council meets whenever it is summoned by the minister or the president and at least once a month. + Article 5 The decisions of the council are valid if at least 6 members are present at the meeting, from which one specialist, one from the steering committee and the general administrator. Decisions are taken by a majority of votes. In case of parity, the president's vote decides. The decisions of the council are enforceable, except those that need the approval of the minister. + Article 6 The members of the council and the committee receive for the meetings at which the allowances fixed by the Ministry, as well as the tantiemas provided for in 58, para. e. In case of special assignments, which require expenses, they also receive the reimbursement of expenses. + Article 7 The members of the council cannot be part of the enterprises established on the basis of the present law + Article 8 The Council has the following tasks: I. administers the puddles, lakes, fishing waters of the State, including the territorial sea, reeds and land property of the State from the floodplains of the rivers and rivers of the country, also the vessels, the constructions and all The state's fisheries installations. II. Guide and control the fishing technique in all waters of the country and apply the penalties provided for in the fisheries laws and regulations The fines provided for in the law and the above regulation increase 40 times. III. It regulates the relations between the State, the winemakers and the tenants of the Baltic and the fishing waters of the State; also among the fishermen of the hunters and the cherhanages. IV. Fixes the fishing regions that form a natural exploitation unit, imposing the necessary measures to ensure and improve fishing for each region. Apply to owners and tenants, who do not comply with these provisions, the sanctions provided for in art. 30 30 below. V. Controls the distribution of fish for consumption and establishes from fish sold at auction the quota necessary for the consumption of riparian inhabitants. VI. Administer, according to the law provisions the intensification fund. VII. It regulates the exploitation of water fishing throughout the country, imposing the measures that it is necessary to improve the production, fix the fishing prohibition eras, as well as the areas of sparing. VIII. It researches the popular means of the puddles and waters, setting up technical offices for the study of fishing in the Sea, puddles and rivers. IX. It prepares the conditions and specifications for the lease of waters, puddles, floodplains of the State. X. Decisions the puddles as well as the lands that will not be indigenous, as well as the arrangement of those who remain inside the indiguite perimeters. The plans of the land improvement service are executed with the assent of the council. XI. Approve all budget expenditures. XII. Prepare the budget, which he submits to the minister's approval. XIII. Submit for approval to the Minister a) Proposition of expenditure increases necessary for the intensification of fishing, the improvement of the fish and equarets of fisheries, the purchase of vessels for the transport of fish or the police of fishing; b) Proposition of purchase, exchange and disposal of goods. XIV. Proposes the appointment, submission and revocation of the personnel to be made by royal decree and ministerial decision. XV. It examines and resolves the proposals regarding changes to be made during the year of operating expenses provided for in different chapters, within the limits of the total amount passed in the budget. XVI. It obliges cooperatives to receive specialist administrators appointed by the plant of production and consumption cooperatives. XVII. It proposes the measures to be taken on the import and export of fish and gives its opinion in all matters on which it is consulted by the Minister. + Article 9 In order to expedite the current work and to study the various administrative and technical matters, the Council shall delegate part of its tasks to a steering committee. The steering committee consists of: the chairman of the council, who presides, the general manager and 3 members elected by the council among the appointed members; of these one is a specialist. The committee administers and controls within the limits of the empowerment given by the council; it prepares the works to submit His decisions are subject to the ratification of the council in the first meeting; + Article 10 The minister has the right to control and verify the course of the entire administration and to impose the right measures that he sees fit. + Article 11 The Council is obliged, at the end of each year, to make a report of the work carried out or designed for the future, and of all the general measures taken or carried out in the interest of improving fishing. + Chapter 3 General administration. Tasks + Article 12 In the head of the administration is a general manager, helped by a director and a subdirector. The general manager is appointed by the minister by royal decree. It can only be revoked in cases of deviations from laws or damages to the administration and only on the basis of a decision of the council voted by 2/3. + Article 13 The general manager is the council's reviewer, takes part in deliberative voting meetings and signs the minutes. His duties are: Execute the decisions of the Management Board and the steering committee; Prepare the work for the steering committee; Direct and supervise the entire staff of the fisheries administration. + Chapter 4 External administrations + Article 14 The general administration is aided for the performance of its external tasks whose number, residences, limits and attributions are fixed by the council. She is also helped by a number of control inspectors for local checks and research. + Article 15 In the head of each external administration there is an administrator helped by one or more subadministrators and the necessary staff. + Article 16 Administrators, subadministrators, inspectors, reviewers, control agents of the State, are considered as agents of the judicial police and invested with the powers provided by the code and criminal procedure, regarding the offences and contraventions to laws and regulations of fishing and exploitation of the country + Chapter 5 Fishermen + Article 17 No one can fish in the waters and puddles of the State, counties, communes and epitropy of the Bolgrad High School, if they do not possess a fishing authorization. The fishing authorisation shall be given by the external administrations, with the approval of the respective regional commission and with the right of appeal to the council, for each individual fisherman, within 5 years, with the showing of the tools with which he can fish. + Article 18 In order to obtain the fishing authorisation, the fisherman must be subject to the novel, know the trade, have fishing gear, or be a member of a cooperative or associations recognised by the fisheries administration and possessing the necessary tools. At the Sea, provisionally, until the formation of Romanian fishermen, foreign fishermen can also be used. + Article 19 The number of nets and appliances caught over shall be fixed by the external administrations, with the approval of the council, for each puddle or water. + Article 20 Authorized fishermen must comply with the law and regulation of fishing, as well as the provisions and ordinances of the council. They owe a dijma, which is fixed by the council, after the proposal of the regional commission, for a period of 5 years. Dijma is made in money or in nature, after the election of the council. When fishermen are organized in cooperatives, dijma is given only in nature. In money: the entire fishery product is sold at public auction through official sellers; the auction is held in the localities fixed by the council in the presence of the parties or their delegates; the net price is divided between the owner or the owner of the puddle or water and between fishermen in the proportion of dijma. In nature: the whole product of fishing is divided into the proportion of dijma, between the owner or the tenants and between the fishermen. In this case, each of them is free to sell their share at auction or to market it. The dijma part of the State can only be sold at auction. + Article 21 For sea fishing in broad dijma is not mandatory. + Article 22 The fish hunted in the Danube, in the puddle or at the Sea shall be taken to shore only in the points or vents established by the + Article 23 Fishermen are obliged to execute the ordinances of the board relative to fishing and to their association for fishing. They are directly responsible for the materials to close the puddles, the buildings and the edecs that have been made available for catching, keeping the transport of the fish. They also respond to the good state of prisons, blackouts, fences, traps and fishing gear entrusted to them. + Article 24 Fishermen are obliged to notify the date of execution with the greatest haste, in the regions where they fish, prisons and installations that ensure and guarantee its production and transport. They are also obliged to repair and fill in time the glaciers, to repair, cherhannele and to maintain in perfect good condition the food and evacuation garles of the puddles. + Article 25 In addition to the penalties provided for in the penal code, fishermen lose the fishing authorisation if: a) Calca fishing law and the relative fishing regulations; b) They disregard the orders and provisions of the council; c) They did not respond to the call of the puddle administration, or even if they answered, but because of their negligence or ill will the time was wasted on the closure of the puddles, fences and installation of leashes and traps; d) From bad will or negligent they destroyed, lost, spoiled the material to close the puddles or did not give the required care to the preparation of the fish; e) They dosit or have stealthily sold the fish; f) Dare repeated proof of ill will, negligence and unskilled fishing; g) Neglects to maintain in good condition the channels, the garles and the communications between the puddles; h) Uneltesc against the State's safety. + Article 26 The contraventions are found by the external administration through minutes. + Article 27 The withdrawal of the authorization shall be made by the council on the basis of the minutes of the + Article 28 Partial or collective termination shall be deemed to be a breach of contract. In such cases the owner or tenant has the right, with the approval of the regional commission, to use fishing or the necessary works of exploitation or other persons. The provocateurs definitively lose the right to be fishermen and the penalties provided for in art. 27 and 28 of the law for the regulation of labor conflicts, published in the Official Gazette no. 122 122 of 5 Septemvrie 1920. For cases of sabotage, the penalties provided for in art. 33 33, 34 and 35 of the same law. + Article 29 Fishermen during work are entitled to shelter and to the daily mystery of fresh or salty fish. For the food of her family can take, with the authorization of the owner or the tenant, 15 kg. weekly from the dijma due to him. + Article 30 Owners and tenants of puddles and who do not comply with the law and regulations of fishing, as well as council decisions, given on the basis of art. 8 of the law, are punishable by fines from 10,000 to 100,000 lei. The contraventions are found by the administration of the fisheries through the minutes that will be submitted to the respective detour court, to judge urgently, being able to apply art. 60 of the penal code within 15 days of communication for the missing and from the ruling for those present. + Article 31 The provisions laid down in this chapter of art. 17 to 29 inclusive applies only to fishing in the waters and puddles of the State, counties, communes and epitropy of the Bolgrad High School. + Chapter 6 Regional commissions + Article 32 In each fishery administration and at its headquarters operates a regional commission, composed of the respective fisheries manager, from a representative of the balti owners and of the fishermen cooperatives, or in the absence of Fishermen. In addition to each representative, an alternate is also chosen. The regional commission president is the administrator. The duties of this committee are a) To propose to the dijma council for each puddle or for each region of waters or puddles: b) To research and settle the disputes arising between fishermen, owners or tenants, as well as between fishermen, cherhanages and merchants. The decisions of the regional commission are subject to the approval of the council, which is ultimately pronounced. The decisions of the regional commission approved by the council are executors. + Article 33 The members of the regional committees shall be entitled to the allowance for the meetings in which they took part, as well as to the payment of the expenses incurred by the They are summoned by the president whenever needed. + Chapter 7 Cherhanages. Their relations with fishermen + Article 34 The establishment of timber is done with the authorization of the external administration approved by the council. + Article 35 Cherhanage must be subject to Roman, know the trade, and possess the tools, material, boats and capital required. He must meet the requirements of art. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16 and 17 of the regulation regarding the duties of fishermen in the fisheries of the State, sanctioned by the high royal decree No. 167 of 3 May 1903 and published in the Official Gazette No. 29 of 7 May 1903. Cooperatives and fishing associations can obtain the authorisation of cherhana. A kerhanagiu cannot have more than three cherhanals and only if in the locality there are not enough cherhanals. Cooperatives and fishing associations may obtain authorisation for the number of cherhanals required for the region where they fish. + Article 36 The cherhana authorization shall be withdrawn in case of contravention to the provisions of art. precedent or with the cessation of permit conditions. Offenders are punishable by a fine of 10,000 to 100,000 lei. The authorization shall also be withdrawn if the kerhanaua has been leased or sold without prior approval of the council. + Chapter 8 Operation + Article 37 The puddles, waters, reeds and land the property of the State, counties, communes and epitropy of the Bolgrad High School, in the floodplains of the rivers and rivers of the country, are exploited in directing and by lease. + Article 38 The exploitation of the Baltic and the waters is: a) At the beginning for all the puddles, until their production becomes normal, under the current conditions, without new capital investments; b) When the bidders did not present serious guarantees for good exploitation; c) When the State invests the capital to improve the fund, the lease offered does not compensate for the investments; d) When the council reckons the exploitation of the interests of the State in greater direction. Fishing in the direction of the Baltics and waters is understood to be fishing in dijma with individual fishermen, associations and fishing cooperatives. + Article 39 The Arending of the puddles and waters is made by public auction or by good agreement, namely. 1. By public auction, adjudicating the right of fishing and exploitation on the natural and legal persons who offer the highest price and who undertake to do the works provided by the council for the increase of production; 2. By good agreement, derogating from the law of public accounting and from the law on marketing and control of economic enterprises of the State, namely: a) Baltic and small and medium-sized waters, authorised fishermen, preferably cooperatives and in the absence of associations made up of authorised fishermen for the duration of 5 years, with a special programme of operation, maintenance and improvement of the fixed fund by the Council b) Baltics and large waters, balti or water regions, cooperatives, and in the absence of associations of fishermen, federales and consorts of Romanian cooperatives or companies, which the council reckons are able to execute specifications set out. The term of the arendation of large puddles and puddles regions is fixed by the council, which envisages the value of investments imposed by the specifications. This term may not be longer than 15 years. The cooperatives must be guaranteed by the plant of production and consumption cooperatives, both in terms of payment of the arses and the execution of the specification on the basis of which the lease was made. The capital of companies must be 60% Romanian; and the board of directors and the steering committee will be composed mostly of Romanians. + Article 40 A cooperative, an association of fishermen or a society can only take into the lease a single large puddle or region. The fishing units shall be fixed by the council. Cooperatives, associations and companies may not use fishing activities other than authorised fishermen. + Article 41 The price of the lease through the good deal of fishing may not be less than the current value of medium-sized fish production due to the State in the last 3 years. The current value of the fish shall be determined by means of the price obtained by selling at auction in one year. The price in lei of the lease is calculated every year in relation to the currency intercession of the year of conclusion of the contract. After the passage of a year the lease of the puddles and large waters or puddles regions increases from year to year, for the first 5 years by 2%, and for the rest of the lease term by 1%. The lease increase of the puddles that need large capital investments to be brought back to normal production, can be calculated by the council with a lower percentage than the one set out above. + Article 42 The lease to companies is made only for the puddles or regions of puddles that have the need for large investments to be valued, investments that the fisheries administration cannot make from the revenues of the intensification fund. These tenants are subject to the approval of the Minister. + Article 43 The state, through its agents, has the right to control the merit of the exploitation and the timely fulfillment of the specification established at the conclusion of the contract. + Article 44 When a fisherman, a cooperative, a society that was granted a water, a puddle or a region of puddles or waters, did not comply with the specifications, or when in the first 5 years of exploitation he did not obtain an average of production at least 15% higher than that which was in the average of the previous 5 years, the contract is terminated by law, the State reentering its rights immediately; and when at the end of the contract it is found that the production is increased by at least 30% compared to the average of the first 5 years of operation, the tenant has the right of preference to equal conditions for the new lease. + Article 45 The lease of the earth from the floodplains is made: I. Agricultural land: a) By good invoicing, in small batches, winemakers, widows and orphans of fishermen; b) By auction, in large lots, preferably for the crop of industrial plants and vegetables. II. Of the meadows and of the land of pasture: a) By the good deal, the model cattle farmers recognized by the superior council of agriculture; as well as in the absence of villagers from the neighboring communes; b) By auction, preferring to equal price the villagers of the neighboring communes. The provisions of this article shall not be fulfilled if the land has been leased for the benefit of the damming. III. Stufaries, through good invocation, preferably the marginasi inhabitants or the industries that use them as raw material. + Chapter 9 Transport of fish + Article 46 The transport of fish on water is done with the vessels of the State, and with the authorization of the council and with the vessels of fishermen, cherhanagies, entrepreneurs or cooperatives. The vessel due to the shipowner shall be regulated and fixed by the board of directors of the fisheries. + Chapter 10 Refrigerators, cool sheds + Article 47 In the main fisheries centers, the State can build refrigerators and cool sheds. Refrigerators and cool sheds can also be built by cooperatives, societies and individuals. The building and operating permit shall be given for a limited number of years and in the conditions laid down by the council. Refrigerators set up in the puddle or in fishing ports, or near C. F. R. resorts, after the promulgation of the law, are exempt for 10 years from their construction. + Chapter 11 Industries + Article 48 Factories for the industrialization of water products, puddles, sea and floodplains, as well as those for the production of fishing articles, enjoy the advantages of the law to encourage the national industry. + Article 49 These industries can get free on the run and in the conditions set by the council, land for; a) Installation of factories and home of staff; b) Installation of Decauville telephone lines and lines; c) Storage of materials; d) Establishment of landing on the banks of the Danube or the Sea, with the opinion of the Ministry of Communications. + Article 50 The export of the factories is free, tax free. From the production of food factories the council can fix a quota for domestic consumption. + Article 51 At the expiry of the term of concession all installations remain the State, against payment of value at the time of surrender. The term is extended by law when at the end of the production increased by at least 80% compared to the average of the first 5 years of operation. The evaluation is made by a commission composed of the representative of the State and from that of the industrialist, chaired by the first-president of the county court where the installation is located. Those dissatisfied have the right to appeal to the Court of Appeal within 20 days of communication. + Article 52 Failure to meet the conditions imposed by the council for the establishment of factories entails the loss of concession. The Council has the right to control + Article 53 These industries can obtain the raw material necessary for their operation in the product of floodplains and floodlands, State property, on the price fixed by the + Chapter 12 Fishing at Sea + Article 54 Fishing at the Sea is facilitated by Romanian-flagged vessels, Romanian companies that possess tools and appliances, as well as the capital necessary for the creation and operation of strong fishing fleets. + Article 55 In the region in front of the Danube mouths from Gibrieni to the head of Midia, north Constanta, in the breadth of 36 km., the fishing is done in the dijma, only by authorized fishermen and by the cooperatives and associations of fishermen, according to the methods used in the law enforcement. Fishing with seabed seines drawn by ships is prohibited in this region. On the rest of the coast, in the territorial sea, fishing is reserved for authorised fishermen. In this area fishing is allowed all year round, but in compliance with the legal prohibition regarding the fishing of sturgeon. The Council may grant fishing rights in the territorial sea and fishing companies to the Sea as long as the number of authorised fishermen is non-sufficient. + Article 56 The State may grant free fishing to companies established for offshore fishing and for up to 30 years; a) The right of refuge and shelter for their fishing fleets in ports and in points of support on the shore of the Sea; b) The land for the installation of manufacturers of sarators and canned goods, storage facilities and conditioning of the sea fish, refrigeration constructions, glaciers, personnel buildings and workshops for the repair of fishing vessels; c) Possibility of supply and filling of glaciers; d) Scientific material of the institutions for the study of waters and seas; e) Customs duty exemption for fishing vessels and vessels, tools, plasi and fishery materials, for ropes and cotton and machinery for canning factories; f) Exemption of customs duties for the import of fish fishing in international waters. g) Tax-free export right for fish caught and for canned goods and products made from Sea fish, after the council has fixed the share of domestic consumption. + Article 57 Fishermen from the Sea will be impropriety, within the limits available, with places of home and food. The state will set up fishing schools for them. + Chapter 13 The intensification fund + Article 58 An intensification fund shall be established for the improvement of fishing, which shall be fed from an obligatory subsidy in the budget of the Ministry to expenditure and shall be covered by revenue from the product of the following taxes; a) 8% of the value of the fish caught in the waters and the Baltic States; b) 1/2% of the value of the fish sold at auction. The revenue assessment is based on the receipts of the previous year. The surplus of receipts over the budgetary provisions flows into the same fund in the following year, above the subsidy of that year. The provisions of this Article shall apply from the budget of 1928. Until then, the amounts that are collected, according to the journal of the Council of Ministers No. 31/924, are at the disposal of the council in order to be used as provided below. + Article 59 From the annual subsidy entered in the budget, the expenses necessary for the operation of the public auction offices shall be covered first, the rest shall be divided a) 40% are used for the digging and construction of canals, for refrigeration constructions, cool sheds and glaciers; for the development of fishing education, granting scholarships in the country and abroad; for scientific research, hydrographic and hydrobiological; for the creation of artificial elesters for the reproduction and artificial growth of fish; b) 40% shall lend to the fishermen or the fishermen cooperatives for the purchase of fishery material. The loans are executed through the Central production and consumption cooperatives, which is responsible for the collection; c) 5% are used for agency construction, purchase of transport vessels and for small maintenance works of garle and levees; d) 3% serves for prizes to be awarded to the staff and to the smart agents; e) 7% for tantiemas, presence tokens, allowances and reimbursement of council expenses, steering committee and regional commissions. The tantiemes of councillors cannot exceed 60,000 lei annually, and those of the members of the steering committee 100,000 lei annually. The Council also has a right to 5% of the surplus of this fund from the increase of production. The amounts not used in this paragraph shall be paid to the Fund; f) 5% for the construction of a fishermen's aid fund. The Council may change the destination of the amounts referred to in the above Articles, in paragraph a, and c, by meeting them where the application is higher. + Article 60 On the basis of the repayment of the loans referred to in the preceding Article, letter b, the amounts which would remain available from this chapter shall be used as follows: a) To the purchase of vessels necessary for the transport of fish, as well as isolated wagons or refrigerators; b) To improve the production of the earth, the property of the State, from the flood region of the Danube and rivers. + Article 61 By way of derogation from the law of general public accounting of the State, the administration of the fishing intensification fund shall be made according to the provisions of 64 64 of this law. + Article 62 The provisional control of the annual management of the intensification fund is made, based on the board's report of a commission composed of: an adviser to the Court of Accounts, the Director General of State Accounting and a delegate of the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains; definitive control is done by the Court of Auditors. Every year, with the start of 1928, the council draws up a situation showing the movement of the intensification fund. The situation is published in the Official Gazette + Chapter 14 Final provisions + Article 63 Salt procured through the Ministry, fishermen, cherhanagias, merchants and industries, which uses the products of the puddles and waters will be used exclusively for the purpose for which it was granted. Or what other use attracts the suppression of advantage. The beneficiary will keep the records of the salt, and the State agents have the right of control. + Article 64 Until the public accounting law is amended, the board of directors of fisheries is authorized to approve the expenses up to one million lei without auction; from one to four million with auction; from one to four million, without auction, but with the minister's approval; over four million, with the approval of the Council of Ministers + Article 65 The officials of the general direction of fisheries fall within the organization created by this law. The entire estate and real estate wealth of the general direction of the fisheries passes on the general administration of fisheries. + Article 66 Import of fishing tools and material, made on the basis of loans granted to art. 57, point b, is exempt from the payment of customs duties. + Article 67 The Ministry, also taking the opinion of the council, is authorized to buy and lease the lakes, the elesteele, the puddles, the flood lands that are necessary for the proper exploitation of its fisheries. The purchase price can be paid in the annuity. + Article 68 By derogation from art. 59 of the law of the Staff Regulations, 33 of the agronomic body law and art. 24 of the law of the veterinary corps, all external officials and central services placed under the board of directors of the fisheries, will be judged, for the deviations provided in the above laws, by the discipline commission that works by this council. This commission consists of an adviser from the Bucharest Court of Appeal as a holder and a second councillor as an alternate, from 3 members of the council as holders and 3 as alternates and from two members and two alternates appointed by the council. Agronomic superior and the body board of veterinarians. They enter the commission when the officials belonging to these bodies are judged. The members and alternate members of the Board shall be chosen by the Board from among the appointed members. The Counsel of the Court of Appeal is the rightful chair of the commission Appointments in the discipline commission are made by royal decree for 3 years. The commission works with 3 members. + Article 69 In this law, if the text does not say otherwise, the expression of "Minister" means the minister of agriculture and domains; the expression "Ministry" means the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains; the expression "Council" means the board of directors of fisheries; the expression "Committee" means the steering committee. The expression of "Cooperative", used in this law, marks companies constituted and functioning on the basis of the laws of popular banks. + Article 70 A public administration regulation drawn up by the council and approved by the minister will determine how to apply the law. + Article 71 All provisions of the laws and regulations, contrary to the provisions of the present law, are also repealed. This law was voted by the Senate at the meeting of April 11, 1927 and was adopted by a majority of one hundred and twelve votes, against three. Vice-president, N. Darvari ((L. S. S.) Secretary, John Papp This law was voted by the Assembly of Deputies at the meeting of April 13, 1927 and unanimously adopted one hundred and twenty-eight votes. Vice-president, V. Chiorescu ((L. S. A. D.) Secretary, Toma Radulescu We promulgate this law and order that it be invested with the seal of the State and published in the Official Gazette. ((L. S. St.) FERDINAND Minister for Agriculture and Areas Const. Garoflid Justice Minister T. Cudalbu ---------