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essfuily assisting one another in various ways. 



Section n. The Forest Co-operative Society. 



Of all the laws of co-operative societies concerning forest 

 work, one contained in the revised Forest Law promulgated 

 in 1937 set down the aim of the Forest Co-operative Societies to 

 the preservation of land and to protect forests from being 

 devastated or to restore the already devastated forests or to 

 make the replenishing of forests with a view to their utilization, 

 while the Law relating to the co-operative societies engaged 

 in the trade of the staple industrial products enacted in 1900 

 intends to do away with the various abuses concerning the 

 trade in forests products and to promote the interests thereof. 

 and the law of industrial co-operative societies, promulgated in 

 the same year, is meant to promote the development of industry 

 and economy. 



I. The Forest Co-operative Society: Japan has not been 

 without some agreements between different villages for the 

 control of forests owned by villages and the disposal of 

 the products derived therefrom, but they have been simply 

 private agreements devoid of the Government's guarantee, not 

 having been established by obtaining the official sanction. 

 The condition of the times having loudly called for the 

 necessity of establishing this kind of a co-operative society, 

 ~t Law laid down the provisions concerning forest 

 co-operative society and moreover the law of the forest co- 

 operative society was promulgated by Imperial ordinan 

 1907. By the above mentioned ordinance it was arranged 



