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iv. forestry.
of the 19th, the State tried to support the saw-mills in Norrland by
guaranteeing to certain saw-mills the right of felling from the Crown forests a larger
or smaller number of marked trees at a fixed price. To the saw-mills thus
privileged there was soon given the right to have woods set apart —
"stockfångst-skogar", as they were called — for the cutting of timber. Later on, however,
it proved that these forest-domains assigned to the saw-mills were able to yield
considerably greater quantities of timber than the annual amount of timber or
trees assigned by the privileges first granted, and difficulties arose as to the
right of disposal of this excess. In consequence of this and other reasons, an
agreement has been come to since 1885, between the State and the holders of
the privileges, whereby the latter, in consideration of being allowed to cut down
all the timber in the said forests, up to a certain dimension lower than that
fixed by the original grants, agree to restore the forests to the State as soon
as the timber has been cut down, and to renounce all further claim to the
woods and timber in question.
M
From Nordingrå in Ångermanland.
The area of the forest- and pasture land appertaining to ecclesiastical
benefices amounts to 353 655 hectares. The timber obtained every year is allotted,
in the first place, to the household needs of the holder of the benefices and
to the timber-supply of the parish, when a rectory or (although with certain
restrictions) a church is to be built. The remainder of the ordinary production of
timber is, as a rule, divided between the clergyman and the general
"Regulating-Fund for the Stipends of the Clergy", while the money received from the
sale of surplus timber (such as that obtained when making improvements and
clearings), which is not required for the household supply above mentioned,
goes to the "Forest-Fund for Clergy benefices", which defrays the expenses of
forest surveying and of wood-plantation at such ecclesiastical residences as
do not own timber-supplies sufficient to provide means for these purposes.
In the case of ecclesiastical residences which have been purchased by the parish-
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