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which furnished the basis for the preparation of the working 



plans and the drawing up of the detailed maps of the State 

 forests. 



The actual survey of the State forests based upon the 

 above mentioned Regulations attained the following results. 

 For the space of n years from 1890 to 1900 the boundary 

 lines surveyed extended for 237,921 cho covering an area of 

 761,349 cho, and the boundary lines surveyed from 1901 to 

 1908 extended for 959,539 cho covering an area of 3,071,345 

 cho, making a total of 1,197,46b cho in boundary lines covering 

 an area of 3,832,694 cho. 



Section IV. The Preparation of the Working 

 Plans of State Forests. 



In order to confirm the basis of the exploitation of State 

 forests, it is first of all necessary to ascertain the conditions of 

 the lands and forests so as to adopt the standard for their 

 utilization. In 1890, the temporary working plans were com- 

 piled. Owing to the lower degree of the utilization of forests 

 and to the smallness of numbers of the staff thoroughly posted 

 up in the forestry, the compilation of the perfect working plans 

 was regarded as an impossibility. 



The opportunity for the compilation of the working plans 

 having arrived with the progress of the work of the first ex- 

 ploitation of the State forests, the Regulations for the pre- 

 paration of working plans of State forests were published, 

 under which the work was started in the State forests in the 

 control of Major Forest Offices of Ehime, Fukuoka, Kagoshima 



ell as in those State forests under the control of Major 



