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ships from being subjected to similar inconveniences; Therefore Her Majesty, 

 by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly 

 of Canada, enacts as follows : 



Township Reserves. 



1. Whenever it shall be expedient to erect into a township any certain 

 extent of the waste lands of the Crown in this Province, it shall be the duty 

 cf the Commissioner of Crown Lands to set apart, in such township, a reserve 

 of wood land, which shall form not more than one-tenth or less than one- 

 twentieth of the superficial area of such township, and the limits thereof 

 shall be fixed and defined at the time of the erection of such township, and 

 the Commissioner shall, whenever he deems it expedient, make a reserve 

 for a like purpose in all townships already erected and in which the Crown 

 owns a sufficiency of wood land. 



2. Such reserves may be in a single lot, or divided into several lots, 

 according to circumstances. 



3. And to provide for the difficulties which might arise respecting the 

 rights and duties as between neighbors {droits de voisinage, decouverts, 

 fences, ditches and all others) which the inhabitants residing on lots con- 

 tiguous to such reserve might claim, the patents of the lots so situated 

 shall contain a condition binding the proprietors, tenants and occupants 

 of such lots, to renounce for ever any claim to all rights and duties as 

 between neighbors (droits de voisinage) , and a reduction may be made in the 

 selling price of such lots in consideration of the disadvantages which might 

 result from the preceding provision, if the Commissioner of Crown Lands 

 deems it advisable. 



4. The Governor in Council may transfer the control and management 

 of every such reserve to such municipal or other authorities willing to under- 

 take the same, as he shall think proper to select, and under such conditions 

 as he shall impose. 



5. Nothing in this Act contained shall have the effect of restricting in 

 any way whatsoever, the rights, powers and privileges conferred by Chapter 

 twenty-five of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada. 



Lower Canada Only. 



6. This Act shall apply only to Lower Canada." 



This Act was allowed to remain a dead letter, and no timber reserves 

 were ever set aside under its provisions. Here it may perhaps be advisable 

 to depart from the chronological sequence of events relating to timber 

 regulations and management in Canada, and follow up the course of legis- 

 lation in regard to timber reserves in Quebec under Confederation. A short 

 Act passed bv the Quebec Legislature in 1875 provided that : — 



Quebec Regulation. 



"It shall and may be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council 

 upon the recommendation of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, to set aside 

 certain portions of the forest lands of the Crown, vacant at the time, to 

 remain forest. 



"The territories so set apart shall be reserved for the production and 

 culture of timber, and shall be worked and managed and the timber thereon 

 be cut, as shall be ordered from time to time by regulations made by the 

 Lieutenant-Governor in Council. 



