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distributed over the country witli defined working-districts. An inspec- 

 tor is appointed to control the survej'ing and cartographical work. 



The interested parties provide the remuneration to the 2 laymen who 

 are members of the court and the costs of the necessary assistance in 

 the work of sur^'eying. 



The total grant from the state towards the work of re-distribution 

 has of late years amounted to about 1,500,000 kroner. 



In addition to the re-distribution of the land actually held in com- 

 mon ownership the law also gives access, with the aid of the re-distrib- 

 ution courts and in a similar manner, to the abolishment of certain de- 

 trimental rights and easements and to the making of provisions for the 

 well-ordered use of common properties which are not suitable for re- 

 distribvition etc. 



Through the system of re-distribution the greater part of the common 

 holdings which were formerlj^ most complicated have now been replaced 

 by conveniently rounded-off properties. 



Legislation Concerning Agriculture and Forestry. 



Amongst the various laws concerning agriculture may specially be 

 mentioned ; 



The concession Laws. 



Bv a number of laws enacted from 1906 onwards various restric- 

 tions have been imposed upon the free right of acquiring waterfalls, 

 mines, fores t, land and mountain properties, lime- 

 pits, pea t-b o g s and certain other naitional assets. 



Of these laws the Department of Agriculture has to see to the 

 observance of the Acts concerning Forest Concessions, M o u n- 

 tainConcessionsandPea t-b ogCon cessions. According to 

 these laws foreigners and companies in which foreign capital is inte- 

 rested must have the permission of the King (Concession) in order to 

 acquire the right of ownership or user in any of the above-mentioned 

 kinds of property, irrespective of the extent of the property in question. 

 Also Norwegian companies and Norwegian subjects and Norwegian 

 local authorities (but not the local authority in whose district the pro- 

 perty concerned is situated) require to a large extent a concession for 

 the acquirement of the kinds of property above-named, especiallv when 

 it is a question of properties exceeding a certain size or of persons 

 who already hold property exceeding a certain size in the district con- 

 cerned. The areas thus taken into account in granting the concessions 

 (the concession-limits) vary somewhat for the different kinds of pro- 

 perty and they likewise vary according as it is a question of persons 

 resident in the district in which the property is situated or of persons 



