# Dean Forest (Mines) Act 1838, Section XIV: Who shall be deemed Free Miners.


All male persons born or hereafter to be born and abiding within the said Hundred ofSaint Briavels,of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have worked a year and a day in a coal or iron mine within the said Hundred ofSaint Briavels,shall be deemed and taken to be Free Miners for the purposes of this Act.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/1-2/43/section/XIV (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/dean-forest-mines-act-1838/section-XIV
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