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No. 1269 refers to the practice of wood-cutters leaving 

 a high stump standing, and enjoins upon the official m 

 command to see to the conversion of cleared forest into 

 arable land. 



In the appendix regulations are laid down for the pre- 

 servation of Government forests from destruction in 

 connection with the working of the gold mines in the 

 Government of Vologod, enjoining that no more trees than 

 necessary shall be felled, and in mining to conduct opera- 

 tions as to allow the trees to grow on the surface. In the 

 list of changes made previous to 1871, it is stated that 

 this statute had been changed. 



In the appendix to No. 1471 is given a tabular statement 

 of the fines to be exacted for the felling of timber without 

 permission, graduated according to the length of the trunk 

 in sajeens, or fathoms, and the diameter in vershocks, and 

 ranging from 1 rouble, 60 kopecs for a tree three fathoms 

 long, and four vershocks in diameter, to 113 roubles, 80 

 kopecs for a trunk ten fathoms long and nineteen ver- 

 shocks in diameter. 



The sajeen, or fathom, may be reckoned seven feet j the 

 arsheen, 28 inches ; and the vershock } If inches. The 

 desat.in, a land measurement, is equal to about If acres ; 

 and a verst is equal to two-thirds of a mile. 



