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Timber Dues. 



Provided always nevertheless, that in the consideration of the authority 

 and permission hereby given, the several rates and duties hereinafter spe- 

 cified, shall be paid to Us, our Heirs and Successors, (that is to say) upon 

 e%ery thousand feet of oak timber, the sum of six pounds and five shillings, 

 being at the rate of one penny, half penny per foot. Upon every thousand 

 feet of red pine timber, four pounds three shillings and four-pence, being at 

 the rate of one penny per foot. Upon every thou^nd feet of yellow pine 

 timber two pounds one shilling and eightpence being at the rate of half 

 penny per foot. Upon saw logs of the proper length to be cut into deals, 

 twopence upon each log. And upon every thousand of standard staves, 

 lour pounds one shilling and eightpence, which duties are to be paid in law- 

 ful money of our said Province of Upper Canada, and to be levied and 

 received by such persons as We shall for that purpose appoint by Commis- 

 sion under the Great Seal of Our said Province ; and at such place or places 

 en the said River Ottawa as we shall declare through our officer to be 

 appointed as aforesaid to be most fitting and convenient. 



Diameter Limit. 



Provided always, that for the better preventing the said timber being 

 cut before it has attained a suitable growth, double the amount of duty 

 herein specified shall be charged upon all such timber as shall not square 

 more than eight inches. And it is further our Will and Pleasure that all 

 such timber or wood which shall have been cut as aforesaid upon our uncon- 

 ceded lands in Upper Canada, upon which the duties shall not be paid, when 

 exacted by Our Officer so to be appointed as aforesaid, shall be seized and 

 detained to Our use as forfeited. 



Old Licenses Exeinpt. 



Provided always, nevertheless, that all persons properly authorized 

 by or junder Our license granted in manner heretofore used to cut timber 

 in Our said Province, shall be permitted to carry away and export the same, 

 to such extent as their licenses may specify, without the exaction of any 

 rote hereby imposed, and that all such timber as may have been heretofore 

 cut upon Our unconceded lands as aforesaid, without Our express license, 

 may upon payment of the duties hereby specified, be suffered to pass 

 through Our said Province of Upper Canada. 



In testimony whereof. We have caused these Our letters to be made 

 patent, and the Great Seal of Our said Province to be herein affixed. Wit- 

 ness Our trusty and well beloved Sir Peregrine Maitland, K.C.B., Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor of Our said Province, and Major General commanding Our 

 forces therein at York, this third day of May in the year of Our Lord on© 

 thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and in the seventh year of Our 

 Reign. 



P.M. 



By His Excellency's Command, 

 J. B. Robinson, Attorney-General. 

 D. Cameron, Secretary. 



The following year Peter Robinson was appointed by the Royal Com- 

 mission Surveyor General of Woods and Forests in the Province of Upper 

 Canada, and received detailed instructions from the Commissioners of the 



