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disadvantageous necessity of combining several small 

 forest estates in one forest administration, and thus it 

 comes to pass that the different forest administrations in 

 the first mentioned five Governments do not exceed upon 

 an average 7000 desatins, while in the four following they 

 average 13,000 desatins, and in the Souvalki Government 

 16,000 desatins. 



' The whole of the Crown forests of the kingdom are at 

 present classified under three heads : 



'I. Crown forests in absolute possession, 572,45 4 desatins 

 in extent, the whole annual produce of which, subject to 

 a small deduction for Government and local requirements 

 may be disposed of by sale. 



'II. Forests under concession to well-known mining 

 works, which are 116,705 desatins in extent, and are 

 assigned to these for the supply of timber, firewood, 

 and charcoal, for which the proprietors or lessees of these 

 works pay into the Treasury a contract price according to 

 the quantity used, while the Forest Administration has a 

 right to dispose according to their judgment of any surplus 

 produce after all the requirements of these works have 

 been met. 



' III. Leased forests, covering an area of 8,383 desatins, 

 in which the wood may be felled by the lessees, but the 

 Government administration is retained. 



f From information embodied in a report made by the 

 Central Forest Administration it appears that there is a 

 fourth category confiscated forests on church lands 

 covering an area of 12,496 desatins, formerly belonging to 

 clergy of the Romish Church, but which have latterly 

 come under the administration of Government, and which 

 might have been included under the first head, but the 

 arrangement for the administration of them was not then 

 completed, nor were any sales then made. 



'Besides these Crown forests, which are under adminis- 

 tration, the administrative authorities of the Crown forests 

 are understood to have a surveillance of all those private 

 forests given as security for money loans obtained from the 



