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Covering an area of 873 cho, but with all these attainments, 

 the work was far from being satisfactory so that in February 

 1907, under the Formosan Government law, the Regulations 

 for the encouragement of camphor plantations were issued 

 whereby those among the people desirous of forming camphor 

 forests can receive the grant of seedlings, the lease of Govern- 

 ment forest lands being free of charge. And when forests are 

 successfully grown, these lands will be given to cultivators free 

 of any compensation. There is, of late, an increasing tendency 

 towards forming camphor forests, so that it ma}' be expected 

 that in furture there will be a striking increase in the number 

 of these forests. 



Section V. The Exploitation of Imperial Forests. 



The Imperial forests had ordinary formed a part of the 

 State forests so that in respect of the land feature, condi- 

 tion of forests, and of their distribution, they are similar to 

 those of the State forests. Since there is a necessity for the 

 adjustment of these forests, an item of appropriation for the 

 investigation of forest lands was created in 1892, and in the 

 same year the Regulations for the investigations of the actual 

 Conditions of the Imperial forests were issued while in 1893, 

 by-laws relating to the Survey of the Imperial forests and the 

 Regulations for the demarcation of the boundary lines of the 

 Imperial forests were promulgated, according to which the 

 actual conditions have been investigated in a regular order. 

 Boundaries were surveyed and their lines were drawn. By 

 means of triangular and polygonometrical surveys, both the 



