’Juniper ’ getting scarce.

Farmers benefit from work in the ship yards.

Shipbuilding not always beneficial to the lumberer.

The timber needs pro tec tion.

Wasteful harvest practices.

’Junip er ’ gro ws quick/ y.

Most ’/'uniper’ is stolen from proprietors ’ land.

Resolved: 6 one shilling duty, followed by the prohibition of future export.

be built without it—is it not the evident duty of the Legislature, now that that species of timber is becoming very scarce in the Island, to endeavour to prevent its being improvidently cut down and exported. Some hon. members appear to be of the opinion that the ship—builders themselves are the only individuals who are, or have been, benefited by the promotion of that trade. To prove that opinion to be altogether erroneous, it is only necessary to direct the attention of those hon. members who had avowed it, to the circumstances of most of the freeholders about St. Peter’s, nearly all of whom had been able to purchase their freeholds with money saved by them out of their wages when working in ship—yards. It was true that when ship—building was carried on without competition, they who were engaged in lumbering might be little benefited by it, but, on the contrary, it was well known that every settlement, in which competition existed in the trade, was in a thriving condition, and mainly depended for further improvement on the continuance of that trade.

Mr. [William E.] CLARK. Valuable timber is now very scarce in the Island and the time is come when we should protect what is left. The return made for juniper-knees shipped to the States, is trifling at the best, especially when it is taken into account that the timber destroyed in the procuring in any quantity of knees is twice as valuable as the knees.

Mr. [Allan] FRASER. it is a mistake to say that juniper will not grow again after being cut down. The fact is that no timber grows faster than juniper, that after a fire no trees grow up quicker again.

Mr. [Roderick] MACAULAY. with respect to the injury arising from the cutting down of juniper trees for the sake of knees, it is not to be regretted so much on account of the present cultivators of the soil, as on account of the evils which will arise from it and be felt by those who shall, hereafter, become tenants on lands now in a wilderness state. The principal part of the timber so cut down, is not on leased land. but on the wilderness lands of proprietors, and the robbing of them of their valuable timber is an evil which will befall on those who shall hereafter, occupy such lands.

Mr. [Alexander] LAIRD. the trees also; HOUSE RESUMED

The Americans take, not only the knees, but the bodies of

Mr. [Thomas Heath] HAVILAND, with other resolutions agreed by the Committee of the whole House, reported the following:

RESOLVED: That the sum of One Shilling be charged and paid on all Juniper Knees exported from this Island, up to the First of July next, and that after that, no Juniper Knees be exported from this Island.

The House divided: So it was carried in the affirmative.

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