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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA: MINING. [PaRT II[ : 
Grant of Mineral Concessions in India. 
Originally it was my intention to give in this Part cf the Memoir 
an account of the regulations governing the grant of prospecting 
licenses and mining leases (1) in British India, (2) in Mysore, and (3) 
in Portuguese India. But unfortunately I have not had the time 
for this. Still I can indicate here the sources of information available. 
The regulations for British India are contained in Resolution No. 
18—17-2. dated Simla, the 20th May 1899, of the Department of 
Revenue and Agriculture. Mr. C. E. Lew, Director of Industrial 
Surveys, Central Provinces, has prepared a handbook explanatory of these 
regulations with regard to their bearing on the Central Provinces. 
The rules are, however, at present being revised. Mines in British 
India are worked under the Mines Act, 1901, for which see a small 
book of this title by Messrs. W. H. Pickering and W. Graham, pub- 
lished in Calcutta, in 1907, by Messrs. S. K. Lahiri & Co, The rules 
in force in Mysore are contained in ' Notification by the Government 
of His Highness the Maharaja ot Mysore, Geological Department, 
No. 555-S., dated 2nd March 190-1'. These were modified in subsequent 
Notifications Nos. 2490, 2521, and 2759, dated 1st, 4th, and 13th June, 
1906, respectively ; these have, I believe, been subsequently cancelled, 
leaving the Notification of 1904 still in force. The regulations appli- 
cable to the Portuguese territory of Goa are contained in * Boletim 
Official do Governo General da Estada da India', No. 84, dated October 
23rd, 1906. A translation of this has been prepared by Mr. R. A. 
Becher, His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Goa, and is for sale at the 
British Consulate at Mormugao. 
