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boards. ' The result was th&t in 1822 an Imperial Act was passed to regulate 

 the trade of the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, by which duties 

 were imposed upon lumber and timber imported from the United States, as 

 follows : — • 



Imperial DuUes. 



Sterling. 

 Every 1,000 shingles not more than 12 inches in length. £0 7 

 Every 1,000 shingles more than 12 inches in length.... 14 



Every 1,000 red oak staves 1 I 'J 



Every 1,000 white oak staves or headings 15 



Every 1,000 feet white or yellow pine lumber of one- 

 inch thick 1 1 



Every 1,000 feet of pitch pine lumber 110 



Other kinds of wood and lumber per 1,000 feet 1 8 



Every 1,000 wood hoops 5 3 



By a subsequent Act three years later this tarifit was continued with 

 some important changes. 



The policy of the Imperial Government with regard to the maintenance 

 of permanent timber reserves, which was laid down in the instructions given 

 to the earlier Governors of Quebec, from which extracts have been given,, 

 was steadily kept in view after the separation of the Provinces. The elabor- 

 ate instructions received by the Duke of Richmond, Governor-in-Chief of 

 the Province of Upper Canada, dated May 9th, 1818, comprise the following 

 directions as to the system to pursue in surveying and granting land, with 

 the object of retaining in the hands of the Crown the more valuable timber 

 producing tracts. 



Reserv-^s. Pine Lmids not to be Sold. 



35. "Whereas the reserving of such bodies of land within Our Province 

 of Upper Canada, where there are considerable growths of timber fit for the 

 use of Our Uoyal Ndvy is a matter of the utmost importance to Our Service ; 

 it is Our Will and pleasure that no grant whatever be made in lands in an^ 

 district or tract of Our said Province of Upper Canada until our Surveyor 

 General or his Deputy, lawfully appointed, shall have surveyed the same 

 and marked out as reservations to Us, Our heirs and successors, such parts 

 thereof as shall be found to contain any considerable growth of masting or 

 other timber fit for the use of our Royal Navy, and more especially on the 

 rivers; and you are hereby instructed to direct Our Surveyor General of 

 Lands in Our said Province, from time to time with all due diligence to 

 complete the surveys and mark out the reservations as aforesaid, in the 

 most convenient parts of Our said Province; and you are from time to time 

 to report the manner, extent and situation of such reservations; and you 

 are further directed to direct Our Surveyor General not to certify any plots 

 of ground ordered and surveyed for any person or persons in order that 

 grants may be made out for the same, until it shall appear to him by certi- 

 ficate under the hand of Our Surveyor General of Woods, or his deputy, 

 that the land so to be granted is not part of nor included in, any district 

 marked out as a reservation for Us, Our heirs, and successors, as aforesaid 

 for the purpose hereinbefore mentioned ; and in order to prevent any deceit 

 or fraud being committed by the persons applying for land in this respect, 

 it is Our will and pleasure that in all grants to be hereafter made for lands 

 within Our said Province of Upper Canada, the following proviso and excep- 



