CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4] — Page 175

Enclosure 2.

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An Ordinance to empower the Governor to grant licences to search for and prove minerals and to grant licences and leases

of land for the purpose of working mines and minerais.

Be it enacted

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Short title.

Fower to grant prospecting licences.

Power to erant Minine licences.

Fower to grant kicing leases.

1. This Ordinance shall be cited as the Prospecting and

Mining Ürdinance, 1906.

2. The Governor in Council from time to time may at his

absolute discretion and upon such terms and conditions as he

thinks fit, grant licence and authority to any person to search

for and procure specimens of metals and minerals in and from

any Crown Land, whether such land be then held under lease

from the Crown or otherwise, provided that no such licence

shall be granted for a period longer than six months, renewable

or not as to the Governor in Council may seer fit.

3. The Governor in Council from time to time may, at his

absolute discretion and upon such terms and conditions as be

thinks fit, erant licence and authority to any person to get

and carry away metals and minerals in and from any Crown Land,

whether such land be then beld under lease from the Crown or

otherwise, provided that no such licence shall be granted for a

period longer than One year, renewable or not as to the Governor

in Council may seem fit.

4. It shall be lawful for the Governor to grant and agree to

erant for any term not exceeding Seventy-Five years (or for

such longer term as a Secretary of State may authorise), in the

name and on behalf of the King, such leases as may be declared

by the Governor in Council to be expedient to be granted for

the purpose of working mines, metals and minerals upon such

terms and subject to such conditions as the Governor in Council

may in each case determine.