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to brook no delay. The Ministry of Crown Domains is now despatching a party of forest 

 officials to carry out the law of removing the best and most important Crown forests 

 from the free use of the inhabitants, and of their preservation for future time by means of 

 the formation of closed forest estates, and also for the protection of the State forests attached 

 to various industries, works and manufactories. 



In the Amour country, steps have been taken since 188S towards ascertaining the 

 Crown forests and the setting aside of the best of them as closed estates, but the results of 

 the efforts of the forest officials sent into this country have not yet been made clear, the 

 dues on the sale of timber are not yet established and the State so far receives no revenues 

 from its vast property iu this part of Siberia. 



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