214 THE FOREST LANDS OF FINLAND. 
into action without compulsion, the Committee have, in the 
chapter of their proposals under consideration, brought in a 
paragraph which determines the conditions according to 
which such agreements may remain binding for a third 
party. This specifies the owner’s right, or that of mort- 
gagees for any one of the proprietors whose forests have 
been placed under common management, and determines 
that this proprietory or mortgage right can only be 
acquired after fast adherence to the agreement already 
made about the management of the forests in common, 
and does not permit withdrawal before the time of the 
agreement has come to an end. 
‘In the chapter relative to the woods of private pro- 
prietors, which naturally constituted one of the principal 
parts of the Committee’s proposals, the Committee has 
shown a disposition to intrude as little as possible into 
the right of free disposition belonging to the individual 
over his own property. 
‘In the outset, the Committee remark that the descrip- 
tion of the forests of the country left by the Committee of 
1874 is sufficiently gloomy. And yet from the places 
which the said Committee designated as already poor in 
wood, there has been cut and brought out since 1874 
no insignificant amount of timber, and it seems, say 
the last Committee, that as the cutting down of timber 
for sawing purposes in these places still continues, it is 
apparent that no actual lack of timber has up to the 
present been experienced. The final judgment expressed 
by the Committee of 1874, when it declared that the 
cutting down of timber over almost the whole lins was 
carried on ina fashion which, in the event of its being 
continued, would lead at an early day to a lack of timber 
for house use over widely-extended districts, is considered 
by the last Committee as certainly exhibiting some 
degree of exaggeration. Traces of a wiser economy with 
regard to forests, say the Committee, have more recently 
more or less shown themselves, the causes of which are 
