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No. 1269 refers to the practice of wood-cutters leaving 
a high stump standing, and enjoins upon the official in 
command to see to the conversion of cleared forest into 
arable land, 
In the appendix regulations are laid down for the pre- 
servation of Government forests from destruction in 
connection with the working of the gold mines in the 
Government of Vologod, enjoining that no more trees than 
necessary shall be felled, and in mining to conduct opera- 
tions as to allow the trees to grow on the surface. In the 
list of changes made previous to 1871, it is stated that 
this statute had been changed. 
In the appendix to No. 1471 is given a tabular statement 
of the fines to be exacted for the felling of timber without 
permission, graduated according to the length of the trunk 
in sajeens, or fathoms, and the diameter in vershocks, and 
ranging from 1 rouble, 60 kopecs for a tree three fathoms 
long, and four vershocks in diameter, to. 113 roubles, 80 
kopecs for a trunk ten fathoms long and nireteen ver- 
shocks in diameter. 
The sajeen, or fathom, may be reckoned seven feet; the 
arsheen, 28 inches; and the vershock, 1% inches. The 
desatin, a land measurement, is equal to about 1} acres ; 
and a verst is equal to two-thirds of a mile. 
