124 THE FOREST LANDS OF NORTHERN RUSSIA. 
first-class mills, two frames, well-managed, and in full work, 
will saw from 3000 to 3480 trees per month; and in the 
second class from 2000 to 2800 per month And in view of 
this, the Forest Department of the Ministry of Imperial 
Domains requires the holders of the saw-mills to state 
beforehand how many frames they design to use, and a 
license is given in accordance with his notice to fell, but 
to fell only so much timber in advance as he can cut up in 
a year or in a year and a half. And should he be found to 
have felled more than his license allows, on proof of this 
after due investigation, he shall be regarded as an inten- 
tional depredator. Of trees in which the branches are 
high, trunks twenty-two feet long, and six vershocks in 
diameter, is the normal measurement. Of trees clothed 
with branches to near the ground, the normal measure- 
ment is a trunk fourteen feet long, and six and a-half 
vershocks in diameter. Sixteen vershocks is equal to one 
arshin, or twenty-eight inches. 
The millowner is free to use timber for repairs of the 
mill, but not for building a new mill. 
Tn the list of changes made previous to 1868, appended 
to the Code, it is stated that in 1860 an order was issued 
that the wood should be disposed of to the owners of saw- 
mills by auction, and that this arrangement, which was 
experimental, should be carried out for a period of six 
years, but this order was rescinded on Ist May 1861, and 
was not again renewéd. 
In the list of changes made previous to 1868, it was 
stated that in 1866 certain matters pertaining to the 
Imperial Domains were, excepting in the Baltic Provinces, 
transferred to the supervision of special administrations in 
the several Governments, and amongst these was jurisdic- 
tion in regard to this statute, 
In the Code No. 773 prescribes permit tickets which 
wood merchants must obtain. In the appendix are regu- 
lations laid down in regard to permit tickets required for 
the transport of wood by rivers, and in regard to the permit 
tickets required for the transport of wood by land. ~ 
