Timber permits. 
     
    
   
   
    
     No cordwood 
     
     for tenants. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tenan ts 
     
     require permits. 
     
    
   
   
    
     An agent 
     
     seizing timber. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Timber no w 
     
     imported. 
     
    
   
   
    
     General permits. 
     
    
   
   
    
     account of it as induced Lord L. to enter into a contract with the Home Government 
     
     for spars and other lumber for the navy. When Mr Hill came, he erected an expensive 
     
     saw mill, and made other preparations for carrying out the agreement. This contract 
     
     proved a failure. Then, I have been given to understand, the Home Government came 
     
     down on Lord Lewis for the penalty, when, to his surprise, he found that Mr Hill was 
     
     a partner in the profits but not the damages. I hold in my hand a lease given by 
     
     Sarah Maddox, and executed by John Hill her attorney, it is dated October 7, 1817 
     
     and contains the following clause: ~ ”That he, the said William Hardy shall not or 
     
     will not during the continuance of the said term of years carry on in Cascumpec Bay 
     
     a trade in lumber, by selling timber, plank, boards, staves, or any kind of timber." 
     
    
   
   
    
     lp. 85] 
     
    

    
     Mr Matthews. [Lots 4 and 5]: 
     
     I may make a few remarks about the practical evils of the permit system. I think 
     
     there is a special clause in the leases which gives a license to go and cut timber and 
     
     haul it through my crop, for instance, by paying damages. I believe it is never acted 
     
     upon, still there is the power. I own a piece of land off which I lost the timber 
     
     through a permit given by Mr Yeo. This occurred about three years ago. 
     
     Com. Ritchie. — Did you examine his permit to see if the timber was to be cut on 
     
     vacant or leased land? 
     
     Mr M. — I think not; I was under the impression that the man who got the permit 
     
     could cut on my land. 
     
     Com. Ritchie. — How much was removed? 
     
     Mr M. — I had no means of ascertaining the exact amount; if was about 30 tons of 
     
     birch timber. l was not aware of its being cut until it was on the landing. 
     
    

    
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     Mr John Clarke [Lot 5]: 
     
     I purchased a leasehold property on that Lot last winter. There was a reserve in the 
     
     lease, however, and I kept back £60 until it was taken off. Even the cutting of cord 
     
     wood was reserved. lp. 89] 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mr Strang Hart [Lot 7]: 
     
    

    
     Upon that Township 5000 acres are marked on the map as having no proprietor. At 
     
     the prices fixed upon for back lands by Mr. Stewart — £40 to £50 per hundred acres 
     
     — the people are unable to purchase. We would be willing, however, to give 55. 6d. 
     
     an acre, having time to pay. The timber has been culled off the land, and the saw- 
     
     mills are now nearly idle. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mr Ramsay — I am not a tenant of Mr Stewart’s but his tenants, my neighbours, have 
     
     assured me that they cannot cut a stick off their farms without first obtaining a 
     
     permit and paying for it. 
     
    

    
     Com. Ritchie — Your impression is that they cannot cut wood off their farms without 
     
    
   
   
    
     a permit .7 
     
    

    
     Mr R. — Yes. 
     
    

    
     Com. Ritchie — What kind of wood .7 
     
    

    
     Mr R. — I heard of a man who cut some saw-logs on his farm, took them to the mill, 
     
    
   
   
    
     and when there Mr Kinley the agent for Mr Stewart, came and seized them; and the 
     
     man was compelled to purchase them or lose them altogether. 
     
    
   
   
    
     lp. 90] 
     
    
   
   
    
     Friday, September 14. 1860. St. Eleanor’s. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Hon. Dona/d Montgomery, Speaker of the House of Assembly. 
     
    

    
     Mr M — In fact in this Island we have now in many instances to import our timber. 
     
     Speculating men of means obtaining general permits have stripped the lands, and in 
     
     several instances have left them worthless. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Com. Howe — Do you mean to say you import your boards and shingles? 
     
    
   
   
    
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