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fixed in the lease for the payment of the same, the Local 

 Government may enter upon the said premises and distrain 

 all or any of the minerals or moveable property therein, 

 and may carry away or detain them until the rent or 

 royalty due and all costs and expenses occasioned by the 

 non-payment thereof shall be fully paid ; and if any royalty 

 or rent remain at any time unpaid for six calander months 

 after the date on which it is due, the Local Government 

 may determine the lease and take possession of the 

 premises comprised therein. 



(xiv) In case of any breach on the part of the lessee of any covenant 

 contained in the lease, the Local Government may deter- 

 mine the lease and take possession of the said premises. 



(xv) At the end or sooner determination of the lease, the lessee 

 shall deliver up the said premises and all mines (if any) 

 dug therein in a proper and workman-like state, save in 

 respect of any working as to which the Local Government 

 may have sanctioned abandonment. 



(xvi) Should any question or dispute arise regarding the lease or 

 any matter or thing connected with the mines and mica 

 leased or the working or non -working thereof, or the 

 amount or payment of the royalty or rent reserved or made 

 payable by the lease, the matter in difference shall be 

 decided by the Local Government, whose decision thereon 

 shall be final. 



* Note.— All information and returns obtained or furnished under this clause 

 shall be treated as strictly confidential. 



15. (1) All operations conducted under the authority of these rules 

 within a Reserved Forest shall be subject to such conditions as the 

 Local Government may by general or special order from time to time 

 prescribe. 



(2) It shall be a condition of every license granted under these rules 

 that, before the commencement of prospecting within a Reserved Forest, 

 notice shall be given to the District Forest Officer of the intention to 

 commence operations, and that the operations shall be conducted 

 subject to any conditions regarding the use of fire that he may pres- 

 cribe : Provided that the licensee shall not enter on the land covered 

 by the license, nor commence operations, without the written permis- 

 sion of the Collector. 



(3) Every mining lease which includes any portion of a Reserved 

 Forest shall, if it authorises the lessee to fell timber for mining 

 purposes, specify the area within which or the quantity up to which, 

 and the terms and conditions upon which, he may exercise that 

 authority. 



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