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No. 7 of 1906.

PROSPECTING AND MINING.

4. It shall be lawful for the Governor to grant and agree grant mining to grant, 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 such mines, metals or minerals as may be specified in such leases, upon such terms and subject to such conditions as the Governor in Council may in each case determine.

Regulations.

5.—(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the purposes of this Ordinance. Such regulations may fix the fees and rents and royalties to be paid in respect of such licences or leases, and may provide for the recovery of such fees, rents and royalties.

(2) Such regulations may impose for any breach thereof such fine not exceeding two hundred dollars as the Governor in Council may think fit, and any such fine may be recovered summarily.

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REPORT

BY THE

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SENIOR INSPECTOR OF MINES,

PERAK, FEDERATED MALAY STATES,

ON THE SUBJECT OF

THE CONTROL MEASURES

WHICH THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT

SHOULD ADOPT IN RESPECT OF

LOCAL MINING.

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Sir,

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COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,

HONG KONG.

September, 1938.

Referring to C.S.O. 15/5048/38, I have the honour to submit my report and recommendations, together with appendices and plans, regarding measures that should

be adopted for the better control of mining in the Colony of Hong Kong.

2. During my investigations, I made detailed inspections of the mines mention

ed in Appendix II, and discussed matters with His Excellency the Governor, the

Crown Solicitor, the Honourable the Director of Public Works, the Third Assistant

Colonial Secretary, the District Officers North and South and the managements of the

mines concerned.

THE HONOURABLE,

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY,

HONG KONG.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your obedient servant,

A. E. P. KERSHAW,

Senior Inspector of Mines, Perak,

Federated Malay States.

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