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 | | The New Forest being under the forest laws, was affected by the forest clauses ~f Magna Carta and by the Forest Charter (1217), which mitigated their severity. |
 | | The lower officers of the forest, who held merely local appointments, were the verderers, the regarders (one of whose duties was that of seeing to the expeditation of great dogs), the foresters, the woodwards and the agisters. |
 | | In 1898 a new proposal was made by Mr Reid, under the terms of which he undertook to work all the railways in the island for a period of fifty years, free of cost to the government, provided that, at the termination of the said period, the railways should become his own property. |
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