466 Assembly Proceedings, May 8-June 2, 1750.

Liber B. L. C.
[Wood and
Timber on
the Com-
mon not to
be wasted.]

And for the better Preservation of the Wood and Timber stand-
ing or growing on the Cpmmon, for a constant Supply of Fire-wood
for the Inhabitants, and the public Uses of said Town; Be it also
Enacted, That no Person or Persons shall presume to bark any Tree
or Trees within the Bounds of said Common, nor to make or burn
any Coal or Brick Kilns with the Wood thereof, nor cut down or
haul away any Trees or Logs for the erecting or building of private
Houses, or such like, on the Penalty of twenty Shillings Current
Money for each Tree, so barked or cut down as aforesaid: And
the said Commissioners are hereby impowered to enquire into such
or other Waste made of the said Wood and Timber, and to make
such Rules and Orders from time to time, as may seem to them
necessary to prevent the same.

[A Marsh
to be let or
leased for
the Use of
said Town.]

And be it further Enacted, That the Commissioners aforesaid are
hereby impowered to rent or lease a Marsh lying on the East Part
of the Common aforesaid, or any Part thereof, for any Term not
exceeding twenty-one Years, to such Person or Persons as will
undertake to dyke, drain, and turn the same into good Meadow, on
such Rents and Conditions as shall be agreed on with the said Com-
missioners; the Lessee giving sufficient Security for the due Per-
formance thereof: The Rents or Profits arising therefrom to be paid
to the said Commissioners, to be applied to the public Use of said
Town.
And whereas there is a public Market-House erected in said Town,
where all Sorts of Provisions, for Supply of the Inhabitants and
others, were heretofore usually bought and sold in great Plenty on
Wednesdays and Saturdays, the Market-Days appointed by this
Act; but which said Market begins to be less useful, by Fore-
stallers and Hawkers from House to House, to the great Incon-
venience and Disappointment of the poorer Sort of Inhabitants, as
well as the Neighbourhood, who used to be supplied therefrom:
Be it therefore Enacted, That all Sorts of Flesh, and other Provi-
sion usually brought to be sold for Supply of the Inhabitants, and

[Regulations
in regard
to the
Markets.]

others aforesaid, shall be brought to, and sold, at the public Market-
place of said Town, and that any Person or Persons forestalling, or
buying on the Road, any Sort of Provisions coming to the said
Market within one Mile of the same, shall forfeit and pay double
the Value of the said Provisions so forestalled or bought as afore-
said: And that any Person or Persons hawking about any Sort of
Provision from House to House on the said Market-Days, before
eight o'Clock of the said Days, shall also forfeit double the Value
of the said Provisions, on Proof made thereof before any Justice
of the Peace for said County; and that it shall be lawful for the said
Commissioners, and they are hereby impowered to make such good
Rules and Orders, as may conduce to the due Regulation of said
Market.