MINING LEASES. Ill 



16. Should the applicant for a prospecting license or mining lease 

 desire the Collector to prepare for him the sketch required by rule 3 

 (2) [b) or the map required by rule 10 (6), or should the sketch or 

 map presented by the applicant be insufficient, the Collector may 

 prepare the sketch or map required, and may, if he so order, recover 

 the cost from the applicant at a rate not exceeding 4 annas per acre. 

 If the Government of Bengal has prepared a map of a tract of country 

 specially for the convenience of intending applicants for licenses and 

 leases under these rules, and if any applicant makes use of such map 

 for the sketch or map aforesaid, it will be open to that Government to 

 recover as above such share of the cost of preparing the map as it may 

 consider to be equitably due from such applicant. 



17. If license or lease is not executed within six months after lease 

 has been granted for it, the right of the applicant to such license or 

 lease shall be held to have lapsed, unless the Local Government, for 

 special reasons, consents to grant the same, notwithstanding the delay. 



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