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VII. FORESTRY OF SWEDEN’.
From Nordingrå in Ångermanland.
several restrictions upon private forest-owners with regard to the management of
their forests.
This legislation commenced in the way that the right to establish
settlements and get them converted into socage farms was connected with the condition
that the forests of farms founded in this way could be freely used only for
household needs, while timber intended for sale had to be looked out »ad
marked by the proper forester before the felling. It was, however, only by the
Royal ordinance of June 29, 1866, that this instruction was given for the six
northern Läns. The settlement system had before been so partially encouraged,
that in many places it had turned into forest speculation under the guise of land
culture. And as the permission to establish settlements concerned not only
>nn-delimited» forests, but also such areas as remained after »delimitation* (p. 201),
had taken place, there was in many places but little woodland left for the State.
By Royal letter of May 16, 1860, it was, therefore, ordained that an examination
should be made of the said surplus areas, as to whether they could be suitably
reserved for Crown forests. A Royal ordinance of December 21, 1865, ordered a
similar procedure to be adopted with reference to the undelimited forests in the
Lftn of Kopparberg and in the Norrland Läns, for the sake of increasing the
area of Crown forests; by the same decree settlements were forbidden for the
time being, not only on the remaining state grounds but also in the undelimited
forests. When permission was subsequently, by the aforesaid Royal ordinance of
June 29, 1866, again granted for settlements to be made on ground found
unsuitable for Crown-parks, the above mentioned condition was attached. The farms
arisen on that basis have a total acreage of nearly 200,000 hectares.
The principle that had thus established itself in Swedish forest-legislation
was applied with far more thoroughness in Lappland, where delimitation at this
period had not been introduced, inasmuch as settlers wöuld have no other right
to forests than that enjoyed by the occupants of Crown-farms. Without violation
of or encroachment upon the rigths of individuals, it was ordained in § 8 of the
Royal statute of May 30, 1873, concerning delimitation in the Lappish territories
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