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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… wasteful manner is abundantly evident (42 I.); the finest trees were being rapidly hewn in order to be sawn up into … be directed to establish laws for the preservation of trees "that are or shall be fit for use in H.M. Navy," and … the country is desert, being sandy and very few timber trees, or trees for masts for ships, growing on it, whereas …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… had been so confidently alleged; but the dimensions of the trees reserved for masts for the Navy were too small, and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Islands (761, 779). Naval Stores.; Preservation of Mast-trees.; The Massa-chusetts Bay Charter. The problems of … the Colonies, and of preventing the destruction of forest trees suitable for providing the Navy with masts, continued … Bay to pass a bill for the preservation of mast trees and its relation to their Charter is referred to above …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… repair them. They were now reduced to eating the bark of trees and roots. At length, by the 5th of December, after … encouragement of Naval Stores and the preservation of mast trees referred to below ( p. xxi.), the most important of … The claim of Massachusetts Bay. The great waste of pine-trees fit for masts for the Navy was continued in New England …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Dudley (1186, etc.). New Hampshire Act to prevent waste of trees. In New Hampshire an Act was at length passed for the better preservation of mast trees, and the Governor endeavoured, but in vain, to induce …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… by the Charter the inhabitants were permitted to cut trees within their townships, the woods without were reserved to the Crown, and only such trees were allowed to be cut as were not marked for the use … of that Colony; that the Crown was entitled to all the trees therein of the dimensions reserved by the Act of IXth …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… arrived, this being the only hope of saving the mast trees (161). The Council of Trade had instructed Governor … and others, who set up saw mills and cut down the trees (161). Acts repealed. The Council of Trade criticised … procured the passing of acts for the preservation of mast trees and the encouragement of hemp growing (245, 274; and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… woods (333). In both Colonies, however, the reservation of trees suitable for masts for the Royal Navy was being … was nothing to prevent the sawmills being fed with young trees under the size reserved by Act of Parliament, and the … of timber to Spain (319). Bridger made some seizures of trees cut without licence from him, but lost his case through …