Anno Regni Annae Reginae... [caption title:] An Act for the Preservation of White and other Pine-Trees growing in Her Majesties Colonies of New Hampshire, the Massachusets-Bay, and Province of Maine...for the Masting Her Majesties Navy.
Lomdon. Printed by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, deceased... 1711. Disbound. This Act of Parliament made it illegal to harvest trees that were "fit for masts, not being the property of any private person" in many of the North American colonies. The fine for felling such a...... More