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for leaving a certain number of seed trees in the felling 
areas, also by paying rewards for the best plantations ; 
all without result. 
Meanwhile a check to the wood trade had occurred 
through the imposition of exorbitant customs duties by 
Great Britain, and at the same time the government im- 
posed an export duty to discourage export from Norr- 
land, and this was not abated until 1857. 
A further project of forest supervision was attempted 
through a report by a new commission appointed in 
1828, which formulated rules for the control of public 
and private forests, and recommended the establishment 
of a Central bureau for the management of forest affairs, 
as well as the organization of a forest institute for the 
teaching of forestry. This Institute was established at 
Stockholm in 1828, but instead of organizing the bureau 
the director of that institute was charged with the duties 
of such bureau. Again for years committee reports fol- 
lowed each other, but led to no satisfactory solution 
of the problems. 
In 1836, however, a forestry corps (skogstaten) was 
organized for the management of the State forest under 
the direction of the Forest Institute, and as a result of 
persistent propaganda the central bureau (skogsstyrel-~ 
sen) of forest administration was created in 1859 with 
Bjorkman at the head, charged with the supervision of 
all the State, royal, communal and other public forests 
and the control of private forest use. 
The law of 1859, however, did not settle upon any 
new policy of control over private forest properties. 
Again and again forest committees were appointed to 
propose proper methods of such control, but not until 
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