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(4) The expediency of preventing new settlements on 
unsurveyed forest land. ¢ 
(5) The way in which the Government should act 
towards the Forest-Wardens, and how new forest products 
should be disposed of for the best advantage to the State, 
attention being specially given to the question how far it 
is expedient to permit in certain districts the burning of 
the woods to clear them away for agriculture, the cutting 
of wood for the preparation of tar, the collection of resin, 
or of stumps and roots for tar manufacture ; and to the ques- 
tion of the expediency of maintaining the prescriptions 
which have been hitherto in force, and to that of the mode 
or conditions of sales of timber from the Crown forests. 
The Commissioners were required to obtain on the spot 
for themselves the information so desired in regard to the 
various Crown lands which were under consideration, and 
they were authorised, as they proceeded with the work, to 
require from the authorities in the several lins, seryants 
of the Crown, land surveyors, and forest officials, such 
information in their possession as might be required for 
the accomplishment of the object of the Commission ; and 
they were authorised to obtain information from private 
persons on any point connected therewith. 
The Commissioners were further required to give to the 
Imperial Senate a full and complete report of the result of 
their enquiries with the measures deemed appropriate for 
adoption in each locality, and an expression of their views 
on the same, each, when necessary, expressing his own, 
in regard to the genera] wish, and the extent to which 
this can be gratified in combination with due regard to 
the interests of the Crown, to the rights of the com- 
munity, and to the subsequent development of the 
resources of the country. 
On the 1st December 1866 the Commissioners made their 
report in regard to the Crown forests in the lins or coun- 
ties of Tavastehus, Abo, and Bjérneborg, Wasa, and part 
of Uleaborg lans, reporting details of their tours of obser- 
