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632
VII. FORESTRY OF SWEDEN’.
To cover the expenditure for carrying on the work of the Board, export dutin
are imposed on timber and wood pulp. These duties are levied with 5—10 Ore
per cubic meter (l7/s—3s/i d. per reg. ton) of timber, for dry chemical wood-pulp
with 50 öre per ton (63/* d. per ton à 2,240 lbs), for dry mechanical wood-pulp
with 30 öre per ton (4 d. per Eng. ton), and for moist pulp with half the amount
of that for the dry one. These duties, which are collected by the Custom officers
and go to the Exchequer Department, are subsequently distributed among the
Läns, according to regulations laid down by the Government.
A special law provides concerning shelter forests at the alpine frontier, and
at drift-sand plains. — Further it may be observed that for contracting icitk
regard to right of lumbering, the allowed time is reduced from 20 years to 5
years. — Finally, in connection with this new legislation, some statutes, of which
is already spoken, have been issued, partly concerning the management of forett*
belonging to towns, with regard to which there have not before been any
regulations, and partly as to the management of certain public forests (see p. 627).
The above mentioned legislation of 1903 concerning private forests
does not refer to the aforesaid parish of Särna in Dalarne, nor to the
Läns of Gotland, Vesterbotten, and Norrbotten, for which parts of the
country two Special laws in this regard have long been in existence.
The Royal statute prescribing measures for the prevention of forest
devastation on the island of Gotland dates from September 10, 1869, and
received fresh confirmation by law of March 30; 1894. The statute enacts,
in brief, that ground naturally fitted for the growth of timber shall be
retained as forest-land, where it is not cultivated, built upon, or occupied
in any similar way. It is, furthermore, forbidden to export from Gotland
the timber of fir and pine, provided the trees felled do not attain a
minimum diameter of 21 centimeters (8’/* inches) at the thick end.
The law for Gotland is, thus, of a nature to fix conditions both
concerning fresh growth and the dimensions of timber to be removed. The
second law, on the other hand, is concerned only with the latter. This
is the forest law for the coast territory in the Läns of Vesterbotten
and Norrbotten (concerning the other, i. e. the Lappish districts of the
same Läns, see p. 630). Originally enacted solely for Norrbotten in 1#74,
it was in 1882 extended as to include also Vesterbotten. By royal
statute of March 19, 1888, the two former acts were incorporated iu
one statute, some slight alterations being at the same time introduced.
In connection with the new legislation of 1903 a new statute has been
issued concerning the territories in question, with essentially the same
provisions as those of the previous law.
The above law enacts that the timber of fir and pine shall not be shipped for
export nor be sawn up at saw-mills, unless the trunk, at a height of 4 75 meters
(15-6 feet) from the base, measure at least 21 centimeters (81/* inches) in
diameter, the bark not included. The penalty for an infringement of this stipulation
is that the timber shall be confiscated, and deemed forfeited from the owner. Yet
it is provided that any owner of woods shall be at liberty to apply to the overseer
in the »revir», whether it be necessary for the proper care of his woods that the
underwood and undergrown timber be cleared, as also if he desires to have SQch
timber shipped for removal or sawn up. — According to the new statute of 1903
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