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(4) The expediency of preventing new settlements on 

 unsurveyed forest land. 



(5) The way in which the Government should act 

 towards the Forest- Wardens, and how new forest products 

 should be disposed of for the best advantage to the State, 

 attention being specially given to the question how far it 

 is expedient to permit in certain districts the burning of 

 the woods to clear them away for agriculture, the cutting 

 of wood for the preparation of tar, the collection of resin, 

 or of stumps and roots for tar manufacture ; and to the ques- 

 tion of the expediency of maintaining the prescriptions 

 which have been hitherto in force, and to that of the mode 

 or conditions of sales of timber from the Crown forests. 



The Commissioners were required to obtain on the spot 

 for themselves the information so desired in regard to the 

 various Crown lands which were under consideration, and 

 they were authorised, as they proceeded with the work, to 

 require from the authorities in the several lans, servants 

 of the Crown, land surveyors, and forest officials, such 

 information in their possession as might be required for 

 the accomplishment of the object of the Commission ; and 

 they were authorised to obtain information from private 

 persons on any point connected therewith. 



The Commissioners were further required to give to the 

 Imperial Senate a full and complete report of the result of 

 their enquiries with the measures deemed appropriate for 

 adoption in each locality, and an expression of their views 

 on the same, each, when necessary, expressing his own, 

 in regard to the general wish, and the extent to which 

 this can be gratified in combination with due regard to 

 the interests of the Crown, to the rights of the com- 

 munity, and to the subsequent development of the 

 resources of the country. 



On the 1st December 1866 the Commissioners made their 

 report in regard to the Crown forests in the lans or coun- 

 ties of Tavastehus, Abo, and Bjb'rneborg, Wasa, and part 

 of Uleaborg lans, reporting details of their tours of obser- 



