DCHP-1 Online

timber dues Lumbering

• a tax or royalty paid to the government on each tree taken out of a timber berth.

  See also: stumpage (def. 1b)  

  • 1883  . . . how easily this could be balanced in the treasury accounts by the smallest additional fraction upon the timber dues.
  • 1936  To Crown timber dues was added . . . "timber-berth" arrangement, by which lumbermen obtained the sole right to cut on specified areas for a given time.