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PUBLIC FORESTS.
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From Nordingrå in Ångermanland.
The State forests left to mines for the support of the mining industry
comprise 32,572 hectares. Part of these have been withdrawn by the State, since the
conditions for giving them up to private persons are no more at hand.
The area of State forests left to be cut for saw-mills amounts to
119,835 hectares. During the close of the eighteenth century and the earlier
half of the nineteenth, the State tried to support the saw-mill industry in
Norrland by guaranteeing to certain saw-mills a felling-survey from the crown-forests
of a larger or smaller number of trees at a fixed price. To the saw-mills thus
privileged was soon given the right to have ground set apart — the
»Stockfångst»-fore8ts — for the cutting of timber. It proved, however, later on that these
forest-domains given to the saw-mills had the power to yield considerably larger
wood-quantities than the annual privileged amount of timber or trees, at the same
time as difficulties arose about deciding on the disposal of this overplus. Owing
to this, as also to other causes, an agreement has during the last few years been
made between the State and several privilege-holders, on account of which these
latter — against the right of utilizing during some few years all the trees in
those forests, up to a certain dimension lower than that decided before — have
undertaken to restore the forests in question to the State at the termination of
the lumber time and give up all further claims.
The area of the forest and pasture ground belonging to the Ecclesiastical
benefices amounts to 348,952 hectares. The return is disposed of, in the first
place, for the supply of the residence-holder and for the wood-supply of the
parish when building a rectory and, although with certain restrictions, in building
a church. The rest of the ordinary wood-production is, as a rule, divided between
the minister and the general »Regulating Fund of wages for the clergy», while
the income for such extra wood-production (through cutting for the purpose of
improving and clearing) as not required for just mentioned supply, goes to
the »Forest-fund of the clergy benefices», by which the expenses are defrayed for
forest districting and forest plantation at clergy benefices with insufficient
wood-revenue to supply means for those purposes. — At clergy benefices bought by
Sweden. 40
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