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forests, and they bind themselves to carry out the manage- 

 ment and exploitation of them in accordance with the pre- 

 scriptions of these regulations. 



' In all that relates to details of conservation the period 

 of felling, the mode of sale, and the cutting up of the 

 wood the holder is left to do as he thinks proper, pro- 

 vided only a systematic approved exploitation be carried 

 out, with satisfactory provision for the reproduction of the 

 forests as they are felled ; in regard to these points alone 

 is surveillance exercised. 



' A little consideration will show that the Government 

 foresters have enough and more than enough on their 

 hands in the administration of the forests belonging to 

 the Crown. And it is not always the case that they have 

 either the opportunity or the time to carry this out in 

 accordance with the usually prescribed order of procedure 

 and this, exclusive of what has to be done in connection 

 with partial fellings, and cutting openings through the 

 extent of the forest, &c., all which makes the control they 

 have to exercise more complicated, and the result may be 

 an exhaustion of the forests subjected to their surveillance. 

 And this is the more likely, seeing that they have no power 

 in many cases to compel the proprietors to keep a forester 

 to carry out the prescribed plans of management and ex- 

 ploitation. 



' From the consideration of all this it will be seen that 

 the supervision of private forests is not so easy a matter as 

 at first sight it may appear to be. And such supervision 

 as is exercised cannot prevent exhaustion, or even up- 

 rooting, or destruction of private forests, if the proprietors 

 wish this done. 



' In regard to the failure of this nominal surveillance, Mr 

 Polonjansky, in statistics prepared by him some fifteen 

 years ago, pointed out to the Forest Administration that 

 up to that time nothing effectual had been done. 



'All the Crown forests have been under the supreme 

 control of the Administration of Finance from the initia- 



