Timber Act 1775

Clerk of peace not filing separate or entering every certificate of planting as by 6 G.3.C. 17.

5l. by civil bill.

V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if the clerk of the peace of any county shall neglect or refuse to keep on a separate file among the records of such county, or to enter in an alphabetical book, every certificate, which shall be delivered to him by any person relative to the planting of trees, which such clerk of the peace is ordered and directed so to do by an act passed in the sixth year of his present Majesty entitled, An act for the encouraging of the planting of timber trees; every clerk of the peace so offending shall forfeit the sum of five pounds for every such offence, to be recovered by any person who shall sue for the same by civil bill.