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posi f *on and the areas of the forests were defined and since 

 then, the works have been steadily continued so as to lay Hie 

 foundation of the exploitation. By 1898, the work of the 

 adjustment had made a systematic progress, so that in the 

 greater part of the hereditary Imperial forests, the work was 

 completed and in the ordinary Imperial forests, the actua 

 survey was also finished. In order to determine upon the 

 policy of the exploitation of the Imperial forests and to plan 

 for their rational utilization in 1899, the Regulation for the 

 preparation of the working plans of the Imperial forests were 

 issued by which the working plans were laid beginning with 

 the forests which needed immediate attention. According to 

 this Regulation the policy of the exploitation of the Imperial 

 forests differs from that of the State forests. The principle of 

 the largest returns has to be always kept in view. In con- 

 sonance with the principle of the continuation of the produc- 

 tive capacity, the increase of receipts has chiefly been aimed 

 at. From the nature of the Imperial property, with a view 

 to make supplies of special timber needed for the building and 

 repairing the Ise shrine and palaces, not a few of the forests 

 are provided with the treatments of long rotation. The area 

 of the forests, actual survey completed by 1907, covered 747,- 

 910 cho ) of which the working plans were completed, 

 reached 404, 1 r 5 c/10. In reference to the Imperial forests in 

 Honshu the working plans are all completed excepting those 

 connected with sand protection and other arrangements. 

 Since then, according to the plans adopted, both the felling 

 and planting of trees are conducted, while for the forests and 

 genya of which no working plans have been compiled in Honshu 



