# Dean Forest (Mines) Act 1871, Section 34: Power to grant renewals of leases to assignees of free miners.


Where the interest of any free miner under the lease of any quarry within the said forest has been assigned to any person or persons not being a free miner or free miners, the Forestry Commissioners may, on the surrender or on the determination of the term of such lease, and of the term of any lease made under the authority of this section, grant to the person or persons in possession under and by virtue of such assignment or lease a new lease of such quarry for any term not exceeding twenty-one years, subject to such rent and under such conditions as may be agreed upon, in like manner as if such person or persons so in possession were a free miner or free miners.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/34-35/85/section/34 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/dean-forest-mines-act-1871/section-34
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