49-19-55 - Trees to be left standing; cutting for naval stores. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 49-19-55. Trees to be left standing; cutting for naval stores.
 

No person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation shall work, contract to work, authorize, direct or assist in the working of new faces for naval stores purposes on trees less than ten inches in diameter unless there is left unfaced or untapped on each acre of forest land being worked one hundred (100) or more well distributed trees four inches or more in diameter, or at least four (4) seed trees of ten inches or more in diameter. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 6046-12; Laws,  1944, ch. 240, § 3.