No. 31.— 1885.] 



PLUMBAGO. 



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all necessary and convenient roads for carrying of the said 

 Plumbago or the Ore thereof ; and all other privileges which 

 shall be necessary, requisite, and appertaining for or to the find- 

 ing, discovering, raising or working, procuring or carrying away, 

 the said Plumbago or the Ore thereof ; and all the right, title, 

 interest, property, claim, and demand whatsoever of Her said 

 Majesty in, to, out of, or npon the said Mines, Beds, and Veins, 

 hereby demised as aforesaid ; and for the said M. Don Sadris 

 Senerat Appuhami, of Liyanwala, his heirs, executors, adminis- 

 trators, and assigns, to cut, take, and appropriate all such indi- 

 genous timber growing on the said lands, as may be necessary for 

 any purpose connected with the opening and working of the said 

 Mines, or preserving or removing the Ore or Plumbago which 

 may be obtained therefrom, upon payment to the said Hon. 

 F. R, Saunders, Government Agent, or his said successors, of so 

 much money as he or they shall or may demand for the said 

 timber. 



To have and to hold the said Mines, Beds, Veins, and 

 all and singular other the premises hereby demised or intended 

 so to be, and every part thereof, with their and every of their 

 appurtenances unto the said M. Don Sadris Senerat Appuhami, 

 of Liyanwala, and his heirs, executors, administrators, and 

 assigns, for and during the term of one year, to be computed 

 from the day of the date of these presents, and from thenceforth 

 ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended, yielding and paying 

 in advance for the said term the sum of Ten Rupees and further 

 one-tenth part of all Plumbago dug, or its value, unto the said 

 Hon. F. R. Saunders, or his said successors in the said office of 

 Government Agent for the Western Province. 



And the said M. Don Sadris Senerat Appuhami, of Liyanwala, 

 doth hereby covenant that he and his heirs, executors, adminis- 

 trators, and assigns, shall and will, within three months from 

 the date hereof, open and work one or more Mines within the 

 lands aforesaid ; and in default of doing so the lease shall be 

 forfeited. 



And the said M. Don Sadris Seuerat Appuhami, of Liyanwala, 

 further agrees that he will not remove any of the Plumbago so 

 dug from the depot where it is stored until it has been inspected 

 and measured by the proper officer appointed by the Government 

 Agent, and the correct value of the share due to Government has 

 been correctly ascertained, and that he will at all times, upon 

 being required, allow the said Hon. F. R. Saunders or his said 

 successors, or his agent or servants, at all times to enter upon the 



