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management of their timber. Often enough they
understand better than their superiors how to make
a profit out of it.

The committee appointed to inquire into the state
of the forests has several times recommended that a
small duty should be imposed on exports of small sizes
of wood such as mining timber or of wood for the
manufacture of pulp and pasteboard. It was proposed
that 10 per cent. should be paid, which for wood of
this kind at its ordinary value would work out at
about 15 penni per cubic metre. The large lumber
which has not passed through the saw-mills pays now
45 penni per cubic metre, or about 5 per cent. on the
value of the unfelled timber, and the saw-mills pay
a duty which is estimated to amount to the same.
Instead of imposing such a new duty, which the late
Forest Committee has also recommended, it would be
better to abolish all duties on the exports, including
that on manufactured goods from the saw-mills. The
more money made by timber the greater is the
encouragement to preserve and cultivate the forests.
This is good logic, and any duty which decreases value
is evidently wrong.

The enclosure and distribution of what were once
the common forests, first among parishes and villages,
and then among single proprietors, has contributed,
as a rule, to increase the interest of these persons in
their forests. It is only natural that, when enclosure
has been decided upon, the peasants should sometimes
indulge in a little license before the enclosure takes
place. The law of 1886 tried to prohibit sales during
the process of enclosure, and even authorised the
provincial governors to regulate the use of the forest
by the peasants during such periods. Sometimes the
allotment of a distant piece of land has been a reason

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