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for leaving a certain number of seed trees in the felling 

 areas, also by paying rewards for the best plantations; 

 all without result. 



Meanwhile a check to the wood trade had occurred 

 through the imposition of exorbitant customs duties by 

 Great Britain, and at the same time the government im- 

 posed an export duty to discourage export from Norr- 

 land, and this was not abated until 1857. 



A further project of forest supervision was attempted 

 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 management 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 fol- 

 lowed each other, but led to no satisfactory solution 

 of the problems. 



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

 organized for the management of the State forest under 

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

 persistent propaganda the central bureau (skogsstyrel- 

 sen) of forest administration was created in 1859 with 

 Bjbrkman 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 anj 

 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 



