The following facts are understood to exist. In the winter of 1843 the Provincial Parliament of New Brunswick passed an act imposing an export duty of one shilling, equal to 20 cents per ton, on all timber shipped from any port in that Province, except such as might be shipped to the United States. ...
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1844
Place of publication: Maine?
Language: eng
Subjects: Lumber trade; Foreign relations; Great Britain. 1842 August 8.
Notes: First leaf blank.

Privately printed memorial to "the proper authorities of the State and nation" to intercede with Great Britain on behalf of the Maine lumber trade whose rights to unimpeded navigation of the St. Johns river was being threatened by an act of the New Brunswick Parliament, in violation of artle 3 of the Webster-Ashburton treaty of 1842.