Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Guide to the Land Law of Victoria
Additional facilities have been granted for prosecuting the industrial enterprizes which already exist amongst us. A lease of any area not exceed ing six hundred and forty acres may be granted for a period of thirty years for the purpose of mining for any metal or mineral except gold, and such lease may now be framed to confer rights, either on or below (or both on and below) the surface. Leases to mine for coal, lignite, and kaolin were granted during the last year under the late law, and Parliament has recently voted a sum of in addition to former votés, in aid of local enterprize to prospect coal fields known to exist in the Geelong, Portland, and South Gipps Land districts. Our coal country occupies an area of three thousand square miles, - more than four times that of the great Northumberland coal fields. The conditions of mining leases are regulated by an order in. Council, which secures to the miner fair advantages, and above all that freedom from encroachment indispensable to success. The annual rent of mineral lands is fixed at two shillings an acre, and two per cent. On the value of the mineral or metal at the mouth of the mine, and power is reserved to the lessee to work more than one mineral or metal on certain reasonable conditions. Our mineral riches are various and extensive but the gold fields by their blaze of success have obscured these minor lights. We possess, in addition to coal and lignite, tin, antimony, iron-ore, silver, and several valuable earths and clays, of excellent quality and in great abundance. When there is more than one applicant for the same land, the first discoverer of the metal or mineral (as in the case of the first introducer of the plant or process) has a right to a lease of this class; or, if there be no discoverer, the first applicant.
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