DCHP-3

timber dues

Lumbering
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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

See: stumpage(def. 1b)

Quotations

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.