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(viii) In case of any breach on the part of the licensee of any of the 

 five last preceding clauses, the Collector may summarily 

 revoke the license, and hereupon all rights conferred 

 thereby or enjoyed thereunder shall cease. 



(ix) The licensee shall, within six months next after the determina- 

 tion of the license or the date of the abandonment of the 

 undertaking, whichever shall first occur, securely plug any 

 bores and fill up or fence any holes or excavations that he 

 may have made in the land to such extent as the Collector 

 may require, and shall to the like extent restore the surface 

 of the land and all buildings thereon which he may have 

 damaged in the course of prospecting : Provided that 

 this clause shall not apply to any land held under a 

 mining lease. 



(x) Should any question of dispute arise regarding the license, 

 or any matter or thing connected therewith, or the powers 

 of the licensee thereunder or the amount or payment of 

 the rent or royalty made payable there by, the matter in 

 difference shall be decided by the Local Government, 

 whose decision shall be final. 



Mining Leases. 



8. On or before the determination of his prospecting license, the 

 licensee shall have a right, subject to the rule hereinafter contained, 

 and provided that the Local Government is satisfied that the prospect- 

 ing has been of a bond fide character, to a mining lease in accord- 

 ance with the terms contained in the rules for such leases. 



Such lease may include an area not exceeding half a square mile, 

 whether comprising the whole or part only of the area for which the 

 prospecting license was granted. 



9. (1) Every application for the grant of a mica-mining lease shall 

 be presented to the Collector in whose district the land or some part 

 of the land with respect to which the lease is applied for is situate. 

 The Collector shall forward the application through the proper 

 channel to the Local Government. The Local Government may by 

 general or special order require a deposit of money not exceeding 

 R500 to be made by the applicant in any case or class of cases 

 before the application is taken into consideration. 



(2) No mica-mining lease shall be granted otherwise than with 

 respect to land in which the mine or mica is the property of Govern- 

 ment or to any persons but approved capitalists who are willing to 

 conduct operations on approved methods. 



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