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Appendix I.
PROSPECTING AND MINING ORDINANCE, NO. 7 OF 1906,
MINING REGULATIONS MADE UNDER SECTION 5
OF ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1906.
1. No person shall carry on or do any act with a view to carrying on mining or Mining.
prospecting operations except in accordance with the provisions of these regulations or with the authority of the lessee of any mining land.
Part I.
ROYALTY, PREMIA, RENTS AND FEES.
2. All minerals or metals won within the Colony shall be liable to such royalty Royalty. as may from time to time be fixed by notification in the Gazette.
3. Total or partial remission of payment of any such royalty may be granted Remission
of Royalty. either generally or in any particular case.
4. Subject to any remission in exceptional cases, the premia, rents and fees to Premia be charged shall be as follows:
(i) MINING LEASE.--Premium of $10 per acre and rent at $2 per acre per
annum.
(ii) PROSPECTING LICENCES.-A fee of $25.
Rents Fees.
Part II.
MINING LEASES.
How Made.
5. Any person wishing to apply for a mining lease shall lodge in the land office Application of the district an application and plan setting out the position and approximate area of such land and giving the address of the applicant.
6. The Land Officer of the district shall thereupon mark such application with How
Application a distinctive number and shall note thereon the day of receipt and shall file the same to be dealt in the land office according to the order in which they are received, but so that with. priority of application shall give no claim or priority of claim to a mining lease.
upon
7. Should an application be approved, the Land Officer may require any ap- Procedure plicant to make a deposit of such amount as to cover the cost of survey and emplace- approval. ment of permanent boundary marks.
delivery of
8.-(i) Upon receipt of a certified plan showing the area of the land approved Preparation, and position of all boundary marks the Land Officer shall cause to be prepared a min- signing and ing lease in duplicate in the form of Schedule I with such plan delineated thereon and shall call upon the applicant to sign such mining lease.
(ii) Whenever such mining lease has been signed by the Governor, the Land Officer shall call upon the applicant to accept such mining lease and pay any sum due and shall file one duplicate copy thereof in a book to be called the "Register of Mining Leases" and the lessee shall sign a receipt for such mining lease.
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mining lease
9. Every mining lease shall vest in the lessee thereof in the absence of any Implied express condition to the contrary the following rights, and such other rights, if any, as nights may be expressly set forth therein:
lessee.
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