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The Epping Forest Act 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. ccxiii) brought together the diverse rules and prescribed how the Forest was to be protected. The Act formally records the Crown renouncing rights over the land and the Corporation of London , having bought acres of unenclosed Epping Forest land, named as the official conservators.
The Indian Forest Act, 1927 was largely based on previous Indian Forest Acts implemented under the British Raj.The most famous one was the Indian Forest Act of 1878. Both the 1878 Act and the 1927 Act sought to consolidate and reserve the areas having forest cover, or significant wildlife, to regulate movement and transit of forest produce, and duty leviable on timber and other forest produce.
Under the terms of the Epping Forest Act 1878, the forest ceased to be a royal forest and was purchased by the City of London Corporation whose Epping Forest Committee act as Conservators. The committee is composed of twelve members of the Court of Common Council and four Verderers who are residents of the forest and are elected by the Commoners.
Epping Forest Act 1878 [21] c. ccxiii; Cork and Kinsale Junction Railway (Arrangement) Act 1878 [9] c. ccxiv; Pontypridd, Caerphilly, and Newport Railway Act 1878 [9] c. ccxv; Thames Conservancy Act 1878 [9] c. ccxvi — repealed by Thames Conservancy Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii) Ilen Valley Railway (Bantry Extension) Act 1878 [9] c. ccxvii
The Timber and Stone Act of 1878 in the United States sold timberland in surveyed public lands of the United States within the states of California, Oregon, and Nevada, and in the Washington Territory. The legislation specifically noted that military, Indian, or other reservations of the United States within these territories were exempt.
Eventually the City of London Corporation was persuaded to take on the landowners and “secure for the People, for the purposes of public health and recreation” the remainder of the forest of Epping. Legal proceedings by the Corporation, against the enclosures began August 1871 resulting, ultimately, in the Epping Forest Act 1878. [1]
In 1864 Brandis became Inspector General of Forests in India, a position he served in for 20 years. He formulated new forest legislation and helped establish research and training institutions. The Imperial Forest School at Dehradun was founded by him. Brandis was created a Companion of the Indian Empire in 1878, and he became a Knight ...
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