FORESTRY OF JAPAN". 



were issued. The Regulations for the Local Forest Committee 

 contain the process concerning the conversion of utilization 

 forests to protection forests, the release of protection forests, and 

 the purchase and compensation payable for the protection 

 forests. Regulations were also drawn up in relation to the 

 forest co-operative society in order to restore the abandoned 

 forests, and the completion of their utilization and of earth 

 works connected with the forests. Further pertaining to the 

 Forest Law, various regulations were published. The Law of 

 State Forests and Genya was published in 1878, in which 

 various items relating to the State forests were regulated. 

 State forests whose preservation is a necessity for the protec- 

 tion of the land and the management of the other State forests 

 and genya, with exceptions connected with the public use and 

 public benefits and with a few special Regulations, are not 

 permitted either to be sold or transferred. Care is taken not 

 to make unnecessary transferences, and to aim at the honest}- of 

 the undertaking. Forests expropriated from shrines and temples 

 are left in the custody of shrines and temples, affording the 

 privilege to collect the products in these forests. In cases 

 where there is a necessity for the protection of the State- 

 forests and genya, the way is opened for consigning such to the 

 protection of cities, towns, villages or to a portion of these 

 civic bodies. For the purpose of the encouragement of sylvi- 

 culture, under the contract of dividing the profits between the 

 State and forest cultivators, the establishment of the percentage 

 in in the State forests and genya was provided by the 

 Imperial Ordinance. Some of these Regulations may be 

 mentioned as follows: 



