Timber Act 1783

5l. reward to informer on conviction of cutting down illegally to the value of 5l.

XX. Be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall discover and prosecute to conviction any person or persons who shall illegally cut down any tree or trees, of the value of five shillings or upwards, he, she, or they shall be entitled to, and receive as a reward, for his, her, or their trouble and expence, the sum of five pounds, the same to be levied by presentment of the grand jury at the assizes on the parish in which such offence shall be committed.