LEGAL REGULATION OF THE ACTIVITY OF THE SAIMAA CANAL IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

The legal regulation of the activities of the Saimaa Canal began in 1858 with a series of normative legal acts that fixed the norms and distributed the main tasks and activities of its personnel and higher authorities, and was continued by the instruction of 1875. Obviously, it should be noted that in the course of this process, both the already proven methods of organizing the activities of individual parts of water transport routes (games) were used, and, in connection with the reforms taking place in Russia and Finland, the introduction of the Main Department of Transport Routes as a supervisory authority. Given the importance of this structure for the principality, the highest supervisory authority for it was initially determined by the economic department of the Finnish Senate.