Dean Forest (Mines) Act 1838

XXVII Commissioners to set out the Metes and Bounds of each Gale or Work. U.K.

. . . F1 that the persons who may be entitled to any quarries to be defined, specified, and set out in the Award of the said Commissioners shall be entitled to hold and enjoy the said quarries (subject to the Rules and Regulations for working the same to be contained in any Award of the said Commissioners) . . . F1 and . . . F1, the yearly rent . . . F1, for the said quarries . . . F1, shall be ascertained and fixed by the Gaveller or Deputy Gaveller for the time being for the term of twenty-one years next ensuing the cesser and determination of the former yearly rent, and so on for any succeeding term of twenty-one years; but if any persons entitled to any such quarries as aforesaid shall not, within the space of three calendar months after the cesser and determination of the former yearly rent, enter into an Agreement in writing with the Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings determining the yearly rent to be paid and payable . . . F1 for the further term of twenty-one years, or if any dispute shall arise between the Gaveller or Deputy Gaveller and any person entitled to any such quarry as aforesaid, respecting the amount of the yearly rent to be paid . . . F1 in respect of any such quarry as aforesaid, then it shall be referred to Arbitrators to ascertain and determine the yearly rent to be paid . . . F1 in respect of any such quarry, in such manner in all respects as is herein-after provided for the ascertaining and determining the amount of rent, royalty, or tonnage duty to be paid . . . F1 in respect of any gale, pit, level, or work, at the end of twenty-one years, as herein-after mentioned, so as in the ascertaining and determining such rent the particular circumstances attending the quarry, and its extent and probable cost of working, shall be taken into consideration.

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C1 “The Award of the said Commissioners” means the award made by the Dean Forest Mining Commissioners appointed to determine those entitled to work coal and iron mines within the Hundred of Saint Briavels or stone quarries within the Forest of Dean and the extent of their entitlement and otherwise to give effect to this Act