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ment forests attached to Government mines, and to private 

 industrial undertakings in the Ural mountains ; to Govern- 

 ment forests assigned to the mining works of Altai and 

 Nerchinsk ; to forests enrolled as belonging to Government 

 distilleries in the Government of Viatka ; to forests pro- 

 viding supplies to tlie Government small arms manufac- 

 tory at Tula ; to Government forests enrolled as belonging 

 to salt works, Imperial and private. 



The codified forest laws relative to Government forests 

 attached to Government mines and private industrial 

 undertakings in the Ural districts, embody in successive 

 sections those relating to descriptions of forests attached 

 to such works; to the measurement of such ; to the allot- 

 ment of forests to such works ; to the mode of surveying 

 the actual contents of such forests and other allotments 

 assigned to such works ; to the felling of timber in these ; 

 to the allotment of timber or firewood to the inhabitants 

 of forests which have been assigned to the Government 

 mines ; and the preservation of forests from fire. 



In the appendix are laid down numerous instructions 

 in regard to the management of these, embracing, amongst 

 others, instructions relative to the surveying and charting, 

 and the conservation and management, embracing both 

 general directions and special ; to the natural renovation 

 of the woods by felling in accordance with the principles of 

 forest science; to the order and mode of exploitation ; the 

 extent of sections ; the period of revolution, fixed at 100 

 years ; to artificial plantations by sowing — by planting on 

 hills ; and by planting on level ground ; to the management 

 of nurseries — with special regulations applicable to various 

 subjects, and requiring information to be supplied in 

 regular reports with requisite charts, &c., and within a 

 limited time after the execution of all such proceedings. 



In the Ural mountains I was informed that there are 

 69,800,000 decatins of forest land, of which 44,914,000 

 are woods, or 58 per cent, of the whole. I give the informa- 

 tion as I received it, but I do so with a feeling that there 

 must be some misapprehension, but what it is I know not. 



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