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the schools of forestry. For the better organization of the superin- 

 tendence of labour 'and their surveillance, the districts are divided 

 into watch-areas, each of which possesses its own watchman. The 

 number of watch-areas in the State forests proper was 801 in the year 

 1921. Before the reform, 9 1Q districts were grouped together in 

 inspection -districts under the care of an Inspector of Forests 

 With the reorganization, these offices were abolished and in theif 

 stead the inspection-districts were grouped in twos and threes into 

 larger Directorial Districts, at the head of each of which there is 

 now a District Office. 



The Board of Forestry itself is now divided into two sections: 

 State Forest Section and Private Forest Section, with mutual cashier's, 

 secretarial and statistical offices. The State Forest Section comprises 

 four departments: management, land, engineering and business depart- 

 ments. The Management Department directs the mapping of State land 

 and draws up valuations and working plans. The Land Department, 

 besides directing matters connected with the use of land, effects the 

 purchase of new land for the State. The Engineering Department 

 attends to the improvement of transport conditions and the drying-up 

 of marshy lands and watches over the interests of forestry in matters 

 connected with the rafting of timber. The Business Department 

 attends to the business side of Forestry. For the different branches 

 of business there are four offices: 1) Timber-sales Office, which 

 effects the sales of unworked forest products, 2) a Timber Distributing 

 Office for the sale and distribution to consumers of firewood and all 

 other kinds of completed timber except sawn timber, 3) a Contracting 

 Office which carries out State cuttings in all districts, with the excep- 

 tion of cuttings for the State sawmills and firewood factories, and 4) a 

 Timberrefining Office with the control of the State works for the refi- 

 lling of timber, all contracts on behalf of these, and the sale and 

 transport of the products of the said works. 



In the Private Forest Section there are two departments: a 

 Private Forest Control Department, whose duties include the super- 

 intendance of forestry education, and a Managing Department for 

 fief -lands and communal forest. The latter department draws up 

 the working plans demanded by the law for such forests as are not 

 managed for the account of the State, and supervises the carrying-out 

 of these plans. The common forests of new settlements come under the 

 care of the Colonization Board in this respect. 



State Forest Management. 



The way in which the areas of the State forests and the State 

 fief -lands are divided into the various classes of land appears from 

 the following. 



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