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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.
The Hainault Forest Act 1851 was passed by Parliament, ending the Royal protection for Hainault Forest. Within six weeks 3000 acres of woodland was cleared. [ 25 ] The Corporation of London wished to see Epping Forest preserved as an open space and obtained an injunction in 1874 [ 26 ] to throw open some 3,000 acres (12 km 2 ) that had been ...
Threshing Machines Act 1878 [14] c. 12 — repealed by Agriculture (Safety, Health and Welfare Provisions) Act 1956 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 49) Tithe Act 1878 [14] c. 42 — repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1998 (c. 43) Truro Chapter Act 1878 [9] c. 44 — repealed by Truro Cathedral Measure 1959 (7 & 8 Eliz. 2. No. 1) Weights and Measures Act ...
Madras, Bengal and Bombay Children (Supplementary) Act 1925 35 Indian Succession Act 1925 39 Trade Unions Act: 1926: 16 Indian Forest Act: 1927: 16 Sale of Goods Act: 1930: 3 Hindu Gains of Learning Act: 1930: 30 Indian Partnership Act: 1932: 9 Murshidabad Estate Administration Act: 1933: 23 Reserve Bank of India Act: 1934: 2 Aircraft Act: 1934 ...
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.
The British state monopoly over Indian forests was first asserted through the Indian Forest Act of 1865. This law simply established the government's claims over forests. The British colonial government then passed the more comprehensive Forest Act of 1878, giving them control over all wastelands, which were defined to encompass all forests.
[30] [31] [32] This Act was amended by the Act of 3 July 1926, ch. 779, 44 Stat. 890. [33] The Burnt Timber Act is no longer in force, [34] having been repealed on 25 September 1962 by section 2 of Public Law 87–689, subject to the saving in that section. [35] [36] There was previously a Burnt Timber Act of 19 January 1895 (28 Stat. 634). [37]