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years. After the investigation extending over the years from 

 1899 to 1907, it was found out that there were 8,654 places 

 which were decided to be preserved covering an area of 

 4,643,445 c/w, and that those which were not to be preserved 

 numbered 531,772 covering an area of 705,177 ^<?, of which 

 those disposed of were 178,397 with an area of 366,057 

 cho. The proceeds realized from these forests amounted to 

 21,094,767 yen, involving expenses amounting to 12,485,292 

 yen. 



Section III. The Survey of State Forests. 



It has been the opinion of the authorities that the rational 

 exploitation must be conducted by means of the perfect forest 

 maps drawn up by the results of actual survey of the forests. 

 In October, 1884, the Regulations were published concerning 

 the demarkation of the boundaries of State forests, by which 

 the local government was instructed to make the survey of the 

 boundaries and areas of the State forests. The method of the 

 survey being extremely simple, it was next to impossible to 

 attain the desired ends. Since then, the Regulations were 

 frequently revised and in 1900, the Regulations and By-laws 

 relating to the survey of the State forests were passed which 

 are being carried into practice at present. The revised Re- 

 gulations have paid a special attention as to the settlement of 

 the boundary lines, the estimation of the area, and the survey of 

 the position. These investigations were divided into the three 

 items, namely, the settlement of the boundary lines, the 

 triangular survey, and the boundary survey. The results of 

 these surveys were reduced to a map with the scale of 1/5,000, 



