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A further project of forest supervision was attempt- 

 ed through a report by a new commission appointed 

 in 1828, which formulated rules for the control of 

 public and private forests, and recommended the 

 establishment of a Central bureau for the manage- 

 ment of forest affairs, as well as the organization of a 

 Forest Institute, for the teaching of forestry. This 

 Institute was established at Stockholm in 1828, but, 

 instead of organizing the bureau, the director of that 

 institute was charged with the duties of such bureau. 

 Again for years, committee reports followed each 

 other, but led to no satisfactory solution of the prob- 

 lems. 



In 1836, however, a forestry corps (skogstaten) was 

 organized for the management of the State forests 

 under the direction of the Forest Institute, and, as a 

 result of persistent propaganda, the central bureau of 

 forest administration (skogsstyrelsen) was created in 

 1859 with Bjorkman at the head, charged with the 

 supervision of all the State, royal, communal and 

 other public forests, and the control of private forest 

 use. 



The law of 1859, however, did not settle upon any 

 new policy of control over private forest properties. 

 Again and again, forest committees were appointed 

 to propose proper methods of such control, but not 

 until 1903 was a general law enacted, which was to 

 go into effect on January 1, 1905. 



Previous to this, locally applicable laws were en- 

 acted. In 1866, a law was passed which referred only 

 to a particular class of private lands, namely those 

 forests of Norrland which the State was to dispose of 



