THE CATTLE TRESPASS ACT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 139, 15 June 1868, Page 3

THE CATTLE TRESPASS ACT.

To tub Editor of tue Nelson Evening Mail. Sik. — I have been waiting for an abler pen then mine to reply to your correspondent Z., but finding that none have done bo, I will ask you to allow me to state something on * t'other side.' Your correspondent states at fche close of his long grievances, that 'he could give many instances of a most aggravated nature.' I will at once proceed to state my 'grievances.' One of my neighbors keeps two, sometimes three horses ; another neighbor keeps three cows, neither of them possessing 50 square feet of land, paying their assessments to^he Board of Works, aud a lawyer's fee for defending them of 6s. Bd. I have to pay six times that amount, niy fences are destroyed, my ditches are stopped up, the path in front of my house is rendered like a stockyard in wet weather, and yet I must not impound the causes of this mischief, or summon their owners, for fear of driving some of my fellow settlers out of the province! Nevertheless, allow me to state as distinctly as possible that no threats or infliction of fines on trespassers will prevent me availing myself of thafc protection which the law has so wisely provided for. Yours, &c, O. B. June 13, 1868.