Dean Forest Act 1861
1 Declaration of the interest conferred on a galee by the grant of a gale.
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3 Nothing in Act to affect right of re-entry, &c.
4 Person in actual possession or receipt of proceeds of gale to pay the rent.
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7 Provision as to the days for the cesser and determination of the galeage and other rents.
8 Extending powers of the arbitrator under 27th, 47th, and other sections of the recited Act.
9 Power to Gaveller or Deputy Gaveller to refuse the registry of any transfer until the rent has been paid.
10 As to the form of minute of registry.
11 Power to refuse the registry of any transfer which is imperfect.
12 Gaveller or Deputy Gaveller empowered to endorse memorandum of entry of transfer on the last preceding transfer instead of upon the original certificate of the grant of a gale.
13 Provision as to fee for entry of minute of transfer.
14 All unregistered transfers to be void.
15 Empowering the Commissioners of Woods to grant licences to sink pits and to use or exercise other rights and easements, &c. in inclosures and other lands in the Forest.
16 Varying the powers of the Gaveller as to awarding compensation for surface damage to inclosed lands.
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18 Varying the Third Rule relating to surrender of quarries by substituting Michaelmas Day for Lady Day.
19 All gales of coal or iron mines, and all gales or leases of quarries determined by notice to be void without any deed, surrender, or other Act.
20 Surrenders other than by notice may be made and accepted by the Gaveller on behalf of Her Majesty.
21 Gaveller or Deputy Gaveller, with consent of owners, may unite or divide two or more gales or parts of gales, and regrant them to the persons entitled after surrender duly made.
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23 Gaveller or Deputy Gaveller to settle any disputes as to boundaries, and to alter (with consent of owners) the boundaries of any adjoining gales.
24 Power to the Gaveller or Deputy Gaveller to license the working and disposing of the coal in any barrier.
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26 Provision as to woodmen’s or labourers cottages in the Forest.
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28 1 & 2 Vict. c. 43. and this Act to be construed as one.
THE SCHEDULE
A Memorial to be registered of an Indenture bearing date...
[In the case of a transfer or devolution of any...
For the considerations therein mentioned, [transcribe Parcels], with their rights...
[In case of a Mortgage], “by way of Mortgage.”
Which said Indenture as to the execution thereof by the...
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Dean Forest Act 1861

1861 c.40

An Act to make further Provision for the Management of Her Majesty’s Forest of Dean, and of the Mines and Quarries therein and in the Hundred of Saint Briavels in the County of Gloucester.

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2

Functions of Gaveller now exercisable by Forestry Commissioners: Dean Forest (Mines) Act 1838 (c. 43), s. 13 and S.R. & O. 1924/386 (Rev. V, p. 443: 1924, p. 454), art. 5

C3

Functions of Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues under this Act now exercisable by Foresty Commissioners: S.R. & O. 1924/386 (Rev. V, p. 443: 1924, p. 454), art. 2