Dean Forest (Mines) Act 1838

XXVI Claims to be delivered in.

And be it enacted, That all Persons having or claiming any Interest in any Gale, Pit, Level, Work, or Quarry shall, by themselves, or their Guardians or next Friend in case of Infants, or Committees in case of Lunatics, or their duly authorized Agents, deliver to the said Commissioners hereby appointed, at some one of such Meetings as the said Commissioners shall appoint, or within such further Time (if any) as the said Commissioners shall for some special Reason think proper to allow, an Account in Writing, signed by them or their respective Agents, of such their Claims, and shall therein describe fully the Nature of their Gales, Pits, Levels, Works, Quarries, Rights, or Claims, with the Names of the Persons then in the actual Possession or Enjoyment thereof, and under what Title, whether original or derivative, the same are held and have been transmitted, or on Non-compliance therewith any Person making default therein shall, so far as respects any Claim so neglected to be delivered, be totally barred of and from all Right to such Gale or Gales, Pits, Levels, Works, or Quarries, and from all Benefit and Interest therein; all which said Claims or Accounts, or true Copies thereof, so far as respects such Gales, Pits, Levels Works, or Quarries, shall at all seasonable Times, until after the Execution of the Award of the said Commissioners, be open to the Inspection of all Parties claiming to be interested in such Gales, Pits, Levels, Works, or Quarries, and their respective Agents, who may take Copies thereof or Extracts therefrom ; and if any Persons claiming to be interested in any Gales, Pits, Levels, Works, or Quarries shall have any Objection to offer to any Account or Claim so to be made as aforesaid, the Particular of such Objection shall be rendered in Writing, and signed by them or their Agents, and shall be delivered to the said Commissioners or their Clerk at or before some other Meeting of the said Commissioners to be by them appointed for that Purpose ; and no such Objection shall be afterwards received unless for some special Cause to be allowed by the said Commissioners at their sole Discretion.