British North American Legislative Database, 1758-1867

This act makes perpetual an act first passed in 1818, which makes it lawful for people involved in the timber trade to remove obstructions from rivers to allow them to move timber to market. It should be noted that the title referred to in the present act is incorrect; the correct title of the 1818 act is, "An Act to encourage Persons concerned in the Lumber Trade, and authorising Courts of Sessions to make regulations for preventing Obstructions in bringing the same, with other Articles, down the several Rivers in this Province." The title, "An Act to encourage Persons engaged in the Lumber Trade" etc. refers to an 1820 amendment.