MODERN FOREST ECONOMY. Il9 



was called in. to give professional advice. He, after 

 making a tour of the forest districts, submitted a plan for 

 the management of the forests. This is the principal 

 basis of the existing forest economy of Finland ; and some 

 of its details were adopted in the organisation carried out 

 for the subsequent administration and management of 

 forests by the Government. Under date of 7th May 1859 

 there was issued at Helsingfors, in the name of the 

 Emperor, a Government notice relative to the organisation 

 of the forest establishment for the conservation, protection, 

 and management of the Crown forests; and on the 13th 

 of the same month there were issued Instructions for the 

 practical management of these. 



These two documents were afterwards issued from the 

 printing office of the Imperial Synod at Helsingfors in 

 1860, in the form of a pamphlet, bearing the title Naediga 

 Statganden Augaende Warden och foerwaltningen of KronosTcog- 

 avne i Finland and in an appendix are given several forms 

 to be followed in keeping and rendering the accounts of 

 operations and of proceeds. 



In accordance with the policy of the Government to 

 maintain an absolute form of self-government in common 

 affairs, with absolute autocratic government in national 

 matters, great power of self-government in what related to 

 local interests was assigned to Finland; and in accordance 

 with the provisions for Home Rule, the Legislative Assem- 

 blies of the Grand Duchy entered at once on the discharge 

 of the duties assigned to them. In 1863 and 1864 atten- 

 tion was given to the state of the forests, and the way 

 in which they were being managed. On the 1st of 

 August 1863 there was instituted a special organisation 

 for the conservation, management, and exploitation of the 

 Crown forests, which had previously and till that time 

 been under the control of the Surveyors' officers; on 

 the 27th July 1865 was issued the Commission previously 

 spoken of, given to three Commissioners named, to enquire 

 into the state and condition, the extent and the capabili- 

 ties of the forests in the Grand Duchy, the management of 



