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Government or from banks, and of such as are held by 

 private persons under deed of entail. The forest estates so 



fiven in security for loans in all the Governments of the 

 ingdom in 1868 were 417 in number, covering a total 

 area of 162,633, desatins. The entailed forest estates 

 were in number 90, covering an area of 56,854 desatins. 

 In all, 507 forest estates, covering an area of 219,487 

 desatins. 



' The smallest number of forests placed under Government 

 surveillance as forests mortgaged for loans are situated 

 in the Governments of Souvalki, Keletz, and Radom ; the 

 greatest number in the Governments of Petrokoff, Kalish, 

 Olotsk, and Warsaw. The number of entailed estates 

 brought under this surveillance are few in the Govern- 

 ments of Keletz and Radom, with very few indeed in the 

 Governments of Plotsk and Lublin. They are mostly 

 situated in the Governments of Petrokoff, Kalish, Lonija, 

 and Souvalki. 



'All the private forests under the surveillance of the 

 Forest Administration are placed under the supervision of 

 their officers, according to their situation and proximity to 

 different forest administrations of Crown forests in the 

 same district ; and as there are a great many such forests, 

 and they are widely dispersed over the kingdom, of the 64 

 administrations amongst which the Crown forests are 

 divided, there are only seven of these which have not 

 private forests under their supervision. 



' This supervision extends only to seeing that they be not 

 destroyed. With this in view, and to reduce as much as 

 possible the trouble of the administration in the discharge 

 of the duty, the lenders be it the Government or the 

 banks make it a condition of loan that they shall bring 

 if necessary the forests into proper condition, and carry 

 out such plans of management as after examination shall 

 be sanctioned by the Forest Administration. Entailed 

 estates are not handed over to the inheritors until they 

 have been, if necessary, put into a proper condition in 

 accordance with the regulations laid down for Crown 



