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Our Principal Secretaries of State is hereunto annexed) and to carry tlie 

 said trees througli our said Woods to the water-side in order to tlie trans- 

 porting and bringing them into our own stores without incurring any penalty 

 01 forfeiture by reason thereof. 



"And lastly; We do hereby require as* well as Our Governor or Lieuten 

 ant-Governor of Our said Colonies as you and all Our Officers, Ministers 

 and Loving Subjects, whom it may concern, to be aiding and assisting to 

 tliem, their Agents and Workmen, in whatever may relate to the due ■exe- 

 cution of this service, pursuant to the Contract above mentioned. And for 

 so doing this shall be your warrant. 



''Given at Our Court of St. James, the second day of October, 1807, in 

 the forty-seventh year of Our reign. 



"By His Majesty's Command, 



^Signed) "Castlereagu. 



"To our Truly and Well Beloved Sir John Wentworth, Baronet, Sur- 

 veyor General of Our Woods on the Continent of America, or to his Deputy 

 or Deputies, or to the said Surveyor General of Our said Woods, his Deputy 

 or Deputies, for the time being, and all others whom it may concern." 



Transfer of License. 



"We, the undersigned contractors named in His Majesty's Gracious 

 Warrant, do hereby appoint Messrs. Muir & Joliffe our agents at Quebec, for 

 the purposes within mentioned. 



(Signed) Scott, Idles & Co. 



London, 9th October, 1807. 



"His Excellency further gives notice, that a Contract has been made 

 under the authority of the ?aid Warrant with Messrs. Scott, Idles & Co., 

 Merchants in London, who have appointed Messrs. Muir and Joliffe, 

 Merchants at Quebec, to be their agents for the purposes therein mentioned, 

 and that no irregularity may take place on the part of the said Contractors, 

 their Agents or Workmen, His Excellency has thought proper to order the 

 Deputy Surveyor General of the Woods to mark such White Pine Trees as 

 come within His Majesty's orders expressed in the above Warrant. 



By His Excellency's Command, 



John Small, 



Clerk of the Executive Council." 

 Colonial Protection. 



A great impetus was imparted to the development of the Canadian 

 lumber industry by the financial policy of the Mother Country during the 

 first quarter of a century. The imposition of heavy duties on foreign tim- 

 ber, levied in the first instance as a revenue measure to provide for the 

 expenses of the French war, but afterwards retained with the avowed object 

 of affording protection to colonial trade, caused a sudden and rapid expan- 

 sion of the volume of timber importations from British North America. 



Preferential Duties. 



In the year 1787, when the trade was in its infancy, a general con- 

 solidation of the duties took place, the impost on foreign timber being fixed 

 at 6s. 8d.. per load of 50 cubic feet brought in by a British vessel, with an 



