Government Survey-mark Act 1852 No 15a (NSW)

No. XV.

An Act to fix a Survey-mark to bo used on Surveys conducted for the Government and to prohibit the unauthorized use of such Marks and for the preservation of Official Landmarks and Beacons. [19th August, 1852.]

by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows :—	BE it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales
1. In the conduct of official surveys made by the direction or under the authority of the Government the distinguishing mark to be hereafter used by the Surveyors appointed or licensed by the Govern­ ment to conduct the same shall be in the form of a broad arrow which mark shall not be used by private Surveyors or other persons not authorized on that behalf by the Government and every person who shall make or use such mark in marking any boundary or so as to appear to indicate a boundary of any land except in the conduct of an authorized official survey shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding ten pounds to be sued for and recovered summarily before any two Justices in Petty Sessions by any person whom Her Majesty's Attorney General may authorize to proceed for the recovery
thereof.

2. And if any person shall wilfully obliterate remove or deface any such survey-mark as aforesaid or any landmark or beacon which shall have been erected by or under the direction of an officer of the Survey Department or by a Surveyor licensed by the Government such person shall for every such offence forfeit and pay to Her said Majesty a sum not exceeding ten pounds to be sued for and recovered in manner aforesaid Provided always that nothing herein contained shall render the owner or occupier of any land liable to any penalty for the removal of any tree thereon upon which any such mark shall have been made which he may desire to remove in fencing clearing or otherwise improving such land.