212 THE FOREST LANDS OF FINLAND. 



' " All woods situated apart from settled places, and desert 

 places, also those in settled districts which are cut off from 

 those districts, and insulated spots, and any so left by 

 legacies, come into the hands of the Crown ; and there also 

 belong to the Crown any unclaimed spots, in regard to 

 which no private person or community can show a better 

 ground for their belonging to them." 



c With regard to this paragraph, the Committee remark 

 that it does not properly belong to a Forest law, but since 

 the paragraph in question, with respect to the ordinances 

 on which it bears, was authorised as a part of the Forest 

 code of September 1851, Section I. of the Forest laws then 

 settled, which it is the purpose of the newly proposed laws 

 to replace ; and since after the repeal of the statutes of 

 1851 no laws would exist on the principles as to right of 

 the Crown to desert and waste places, the Committee 

 resolved to retain the paragraph in their own proposals. 



'The other paragraphs in this chapter relate to the 

 management of Crown forests. These also, say the Com- 

 mittee, might be left out from the proposed laws, seeing 

 that up to the present these laws have been managed in 

 an administrative way; since, however, a complete code 

 demands that forests, falling under this category, should 

 also be dealt with, the Committee have not left them out, 

 but have sought to give them a signification which will not 

 hinder the Crown from managing its considerable domains 

 with the necessary freedom. Under the said paragraphs 

 the Committee has contented itself with the expression of 

 the general principles, that Crown lands, not otherwise dis- 

 posed of, but not declared to be a Crown park, or not proved 

 to be necessary for this, might be let out for cultivation, 

 so far as this is appropriate, or, in other cases, be let to 

 certain persons, or managed for the benefit of the Crown, 

 according to methods already in use, or which may here- 

 after be devised. 



'In the chapter relative to forests belonging to communi- 



