212 THE FOREST LANDS OF FINLAND. 
‘“ All'woods situated apart from settled places, and desert 
places, also those in settled districts which are cut off from 
those districts, and insulated spots, and any so left by 
legacies, come into the hands of the Crown ; and there also 
belong to the Crown any unclaimed spots, in regard to 
which no private person or community can show a better 
ground for their belonging to them.” 
‘With regard to this paragraph, the Committee remark 
that it does not properly belong to a Forest law, but since 
the paragraph in question, with respect to the ordinances 
on which it bears, was authorised as a part of the Forest 
code of September 1851, Section I. of the Forest laws then 
settled, which it is the purpose of the newly proposed laws 
to replace ; and since after the repeal of the statutes of 
1851 no laws would exist on the principles as to right of 
the Crown to desert and waste places, the Committee 
resolved to retain the paragraph in their own proposals. 
‘The other paragraphs in this chapter relate to the 
ranagement of Crown forests. These also, say the Com- 
mittee, might be left out from the proposed laws, seeing 
that up to the present these laws have been managed in 
an administrative way; since, however, a complete code 
demands that forests, falling under this category, should 
also be dealt with, the Committee have not left them out, 
but have sought to give them a signification which will not 
hinder the Crown from managing its considerable domains 
with the necessary freedom. Under the said paragraphs 
the Committee has contented itself with the expression of 
the general principles, that Crown lands, not otherwise dis- 
posed of, but not declared to be a Crown park, or not proved 
to be necessary for this, might be let out for cultivation, 
so far as this is appropriate, or, in other cases, be let to 
certain persons, or managed for the benefit of the Crown, 
according to methods already in use, or which may here- 
after be devised. 
‘In the chapter relative to forests belonging to communi- 
