This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...products offered for exportation. IN SOOTH CAROLINA On March 25, 1738, the Provincial Legislature passed a general act to prevent frauds in the selling of various staples, including shingles and firewood. This was followed on June 17, 1746, by a very comprehensive act on the same subject. The latter act, which was limited to three years, was allowed to lapse, but on March 12, 1783, its provisions were revived and were continued without limitation as to time of operation. FOREST INDUSTRIES IN THE COLONIES Within two decades after the founding of the first permanent British colony in North America, the Crown manifested an interest in the production of naval stores in the New World; and in a letter dated March 28, 1628, the General Assembly at Jamestown, Virginia, advised the King that, although there were great possibilities for the production of pitch and tar in the new country, the industry could not be profitably undertaken at that time. On November 15, 1644, the General Court at Hartford, Connecticut, granted to two men the privilege of making tar in the colony under certain restrictions. On October 21, 1653, complaint was made to the Court of the inconveniences which had been suffered by some of the inhabitants of Windsor because of the burning of tar near the town. In 1663 John Griffin was granted two hundred acres of land for making it appear that he was the first to make pitch or tar in Connecticut. An act of June, 1661, in the Plymouth Colony, fixed an export duty of six pence per barrel on tar made within the lands of any township, and twe ve pence per barrel for any tar gathered on the "Countryes Comons," with a penalty of four shillings a barrel for evasion of the act. An order of 1668 forbidding the making of tar in Plymouth Colony was ...