Timber Act 1775
TIMBER ACT 1775 | ||
CHAP. XXVI. | ||
An Act for encouraging the cultivation, and for the better preservation of trees, shrubs, plants, and roots, | ||
10 W. 3. c. 12. | ||
4 Anne, c. 9. | ||
9 Anne, c. 5. | ||
8 G. 1. c 8. | ||
and so much of 5 G. 2. c. 9 as relates to planting timber trees, | ||
repealed. | ||
WHEREAS the several acts of parliament made for the encouragement of planting and for preserving of timber trees, woods, and underwoods, herein after mentioned, have not had the desired effect; and to avoid the confusion, which may arise from the multitude of the laws relative to the same subject it is thought expedient to repeal the said several acts, and to make one new act containing all such parts of the said acts, as are proper to be continued: with such alterations and additions as are herein after contained: therefore be it enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after the first day of May one thousand seven hundred and seventy six an act of parliament passed in the tenth year of the reign of his late Majesty king William the third, entitled, An act for planting and preserving timber trees and woods, and also another act of parliament passed in the fourth year of her late Majesty Queen Anne, entitled, An act for explaining and putting in execution an act for planting and preserving trees and woods, and for explaining and putting in execution an act to avoid and prevent misdemeanors in idle and lewd persons in barking of trees, and also another act of parliament passed in the ninth year of her late Majesty queen Anne, entitled, An act for the further explaining and putting in execution an act for planting and preserving timber trees and woods, and also another act of parliament passed in the eighth year of the reign of his late Majesty king George the first, entitled, An act for repealing part of an act passed in the tenth year of king William the third, entitled, An act for planting and preserving timber trees and woods, and also for giving further encouragement to plant and preserve timber trees and woods, and also so much of an act passed in the fifth year of the reign of his late Majesty king George the second, entitled, An act to encourage the improvement of barren and waste land and bogs, and planting of timber trees and orchards, as relates to the planting of timber trees, shall be repealed and made null and void. |