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Proclamation Offers Rewards for Oak Theft Offenders
Lords Justices publish a royal proclamation from Dublin dated August 16 offering five rewards of ten pounds each for the first five discoverers of oak tree thieves in Kilmackbea woods Cork with full pardon to discoverers. It details daytime bark stripping and night logging crimes, names counties and witnesses, and commands magistrates to pursue offenders. Also notes dispatches from Madrid and Vienna, and various European reports.
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