IOO HOLLAND: MICA DEPOSITS OF INDIA. 



On receipt of an application for prospecting or for mining over a 

 plot lying within 200 yards of an area already granted to a different 

 individual under a mining lease, the Collector may, if he sees no 

 objection, give this original lessee an opportunity of extending his 

 lease area, if the rules permit, so as to include the whole or a portion 

 of the extent newly applied for. 



19. Deposits. — No mining lease shall be issued unless the lessee 

 shall before the lease is granted deposit as security in respect of each 

 lease such sum as the Collector may determine or give security to 

 the like amount to the satisfaction of the Collector, the maxi« 

 mum deposit in any case being Rs. 500. Each lessee shall be res- 

 ponsible for filling up pits excavated by him unless the royalty paid 

 in respect of each excavation exceeds Rs. 200. 



20. The following will be insisted on as necessary conditions of a 

 lease : — 



(i) The lessee shall at his own expense erect and at all times 

 maintain and keep in repair boundary marks and 

 pillars according to the demarcation to be shown in a 

 plan annexed to his lease. 



(it) The lessee shall not cut or injure any tree on the land 

 covered by his lease without the permission of the Col- 

 lector in writing, but it will be open to him to acquire 

 any such trees at prices fixed by the Collector. 



(tit) Neither the lessee nor any one claiming through or under 

 him shall assign the lease, or transfer any right or inter- 

 est thereunder, or underlet the whole or any portion 

 of the premises comprised in such lease, without the 

 previous consent in writing of the Local Government. 



(iv) The lessee shall commence operations within two years 

 from the date of the execution of the lease, and shall 

 thereafter carry them on effectually in a proper, skilful 

 and mining-like manner unless prevented by unavoid- 

 able cause. 



{v) The lessee shall allow any officer authorised by the Local 

 Government in that behalf to enter upon the premises 

 comprised in the lease for the purpose of inspecting 

 the same. 



(vi) The lessee shall not without the consent in writing of the 

 Collector despatch any consignment of mica from the 

 mines unless it shall have been inspected and its re- 

 moval authorized by a Government officer appointed for 

 the purpose. The dates on which the inspection will 

 be made will be notified to the lessee by the Collector, 



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