Forest History Society Photograph Collection Sample Images: British Colonial Law / FHS694th

Image ID: FHS694
Image Date: [no date]
Image Title: [British Colonial Law.]
Image Caption: [Page 567 in the 1729 publication titled "Anno Regni Georgii II Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hibernaiae, Secundo. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster, the Twenty third Day of January, Anno Dom. 1717, in the First Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George II ... and From Thence Continued by Several Prorogations to the Twenty first Day of January, 1728, Being the Second Session of this Present Parliament (London: printed by the assigns of His Majesty's printer & of H. Hills deceas'd.)".]

[The first paragraph on page 567 reads: "An Act for better Preservation of His Majesty's Woods in America, and for the Encouragement of the Importation of Naval Stores from thence; and to encourage the Importation of Masts, Yards, and Bowsprights, from that Part of Great Britain called Scotland." (Otherwise known as the "Broad Arrow Act".)]

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