A.D. 1873. (SOUTH AUSTRALIA) 37 Vict., No. 18 (Northern Territory Gold Mining) Mining) 1873. (NEW ZEALAND) 37 Vict., No. 40 (Resumption of Land for 1874. (NEW SOUTH WALES) 37 Vict., No. 13 (Mining) 1874. (NEW SOUTH WALES) 37 Vict., No. 19 (Companies) 1874. (QUEENSLAND) 38 Vict., No. 11 (Gold Fields) . 1875. 38 & 39 Vict., c. 55 (Public Health) 1875. 38 & 39 Vict., c. 60 (Friendly Societies). 1876. (NEW SOUTH WALES) 39 Vict., No. 31 (Regulation and 1876. (BURMA) Code, Act 2 (Land and Revenue) 1877. (NEW BRUNSWICK) Consol. Stat. 1877, c. 18 (Mines and 1877. (BRITISH COLUMBIA) (Coal Mines Regulation) 1877. (SOUTH AUSTRALIA) 40 & 41 Vict., No. 88 (Crown Lands) 1878. 41 & 42 Vict., c. lxxxi. (South Staffordshire Drainage) 1879. (BOMBAY) Code, No. 5 (Land Revenue) 1880. 43 & 44 Vict., c. 42 (Employers' Liability) 1880. (BENGAL) Code, Act 9 (Cess). 1880. (QUEBEC) 43 & 44 Vict., c. 12 (General Mining) 1880. (NEW SOUTH WALES) 44 Vict., No. 3 (Stamp Duties) 1881. 44 & 45 Vict., c. 41 (Conveyancing and Property) (CENTRAL PROVINCES) Code, Act 18 (Land Revenue) (NATAL) No. 11 1881. 1881. 1882. 45 & 46 Vict., c. 38 (Settled Land) 1882. 45 & 46 Vict., c. cxxxi. (South Staffordshire Drainage) 1882. (NEW ZEALAND) 46 Vict., No. 37 (Public Works) 1883. (CAPE OF GOOD HOPE) 47 Vict., No. 19 (Precious Stones 1883. (BRITISH COLUMBIA) 47 Vict., No. 3 (Coal Mines) 1883. 1883. 1884. (NEW SOUTH WALES) 48 Vict., No. 18 (Crown Lands) 1884. (COLONY OF VICTORIA) 48 Vict., No. 796 (Mining on Private 1884. 1881. Property) (COLONY OF VICTORIA) 48 Vict., No. 812 (Land) (QUEENSLAND) 48 Vict., No. 28 (Crown Lands) A.D. PAGE Mining Amendment) . (BRITISH COLUMBIA) see Rev. Stat. of 1888, c. 66 (Land) . (NEWFOUNDLAND) 48 Vict., c. 3 1884. 1885. (SOUTH AUSTRALIA) 48 & 49 Vict., No. 353 (Gold Mining) 1886. (CAPE OF GOOD HOPE) No. 18 (Precious Stones and Minerals Acts Further Amendment) (DOMINION OF CANADA) Rev. Stat., c. 54 (Dominion Lands) 1886. (QUEENSLAND) 50 Vict., No. 19 (Mining Companies) 1886. (QUEENSLAND) 50 Vict., No. 20 (Mineral Lands-Coal Mining). 1886. (SOUTH AUSTRALIA) 49 & 50 Vict., No. 393 (Crown Lands) 267 271 229 240 287 240 251 287 286 287-9 295 303 299 298 1887. 50 & 51 Vict., c. 43 (Stannaries) 24 1887. 50 & 51 Vict., c. 46 (Truck Amendment) 21 1887. 50 & 51 Vict., c. 58 (Coal Mines Regulation) 19-21 1887. (PUNJAB) Code, Act 17 (Land Revenue). 230 1887. (CAPE OF GOOD HOPE) No. 44 (Precious Stones and Minerals Mining Law Amendment). 240 1887. (NATAL) No. 17 (Mines) 243 1887. 1887. (ONTARIO) Rev. Stat. 1887, c. 31 (General Mining). (BRITISH HONDURAS) Consolidated Laws of, part 34, c. 103 1888. 51 & 52 Vict., c. 43 (County Courts) 1888. (QUEBEC) Rev. Stat. 1888, 1411-1582 (General Mining) . 1888. (BRITISH COLUMBIA) Rev. Stat. of 1888, c. 66 (Development of Quartz Mines) 1888. (BRITISH COLUMBIA) Rev. Stat. of 1888, c. 82 (Mineral 1888. (NEW South Wales) 52 Vict., No. 14 (Companies) 1888. (WEST AUSTRALIA) 51 Vict., No. 24 (Gold Fields Act Amend 1889. (BURMA) Code, Reg. IX. of 1886 (Acquisition of Land) 1889. (NEW SOUTH WALES) 53 Vict., No. 20 (Mining) 255 270 269-70 285 289 289 295 231 240 284 (ONTARIO) 53 Vict., c. 10 (Mining Operations). 1890. 53 & 54 Vict., c. 63 (Companies' Winding-up) PAGE 287 19 24 295 254 1890. (BRITISH COLUMBIA) 53 Vict., c. 31 (Canadian Railway Belt) 270 1890. (NEW SOUTH WALES) 54 Vict., No. 15 (Mining Stock Stamps). 285 1890. (SOUTH AUSTRALIA) 53 Vict., No. 501 (Northern Territory Crown Lands) 288 1890. 1890. 1890. 1890. (COLONY OF VICTORIA) 54 Vict., No. 1106 (Land) 1891. (NOVA SCOTIA) 54 Vict., c. 9 (Regulation of Mines Amend 1891. (NEW BRUNSWICK) 54 Vict., c. 16 (General Mining). 1891. (MANITOBA) Rev. Stat. c. 120 (Provincial Lands) 1891. (BRITISH COLUMBIA) 54 Vict., c. 25 (Minerals). 266 259 258 267 1891. (BRITISH COLUMBIA) 54 Vict., c. 26 (Placer Mining). 1891. (QUEENSLAND) 55 Vict., No. 6 (Mineral Lands Coal Mining Act Amendment Act) 286 1891. (QUEENSLAND) 55 Vict., No. 18 (Mineral Homestead Leases). 286 1891. (QUEENSLAND) 55 Vict., No. 26 (Gold Mines Drainage) 286 1891. (COLONY OF VICTORIA) 55 Vict., No. 11 (Mines Act). 293 1891. (COLONY OF VICTORIA) 55 Vict., No. 1251 (Mines Act No. 2) 291-3 1891. (NEW ZEALAND) 54 & 55 Vict., No. 33 (Mining) .297-302 1891. 1892. 1892. 1891. (NEW ZEALAND) 54 & 55 Vict., No. 46 (Coal Mines) (TASMANIA) 54 Vict., No. 8 (Lands Clauses) (TASMANIA) 55 Vict., No. 31 (Regulation of Mines) 1892. 55 & 56 Vict., c. 13 (Conveyancing and Property) (BRITISH COLUMBIA) (Mineral Act Amendment) (ONTARIO) 55 Vict., c. 9 (Mining) 1892. (NOVA SCOTIA) 55 Vict., c. 1 (Mines and Minerals) 1892. (NOVA SCOTIA) 55 Vict. c.4 (Regulation of Mines Amendment) 1892. (QUEENSLAND) 56 Vict., No. 31 (Mineral Land Sales). 1892. (SOUTH AUSTRALIA) 55 & 56 Vict., No. 560 (School of 262-5 266 286 Mines &c.) 290 1892. (COLONY OF VICTORIA) 56 Vict., No. 1263 (Mines) A.D. PAGE 1892. (WESTERN AUSTRALIA) 55 Vict., No. 3 (Mineral Lands) 1892. (NEW BRUNSWICK) . 296 259 1892. (NEW ZEALAND) 55 Vict., No. 37 (Land) 297-300 1892. (NEW ZEALAND) 55 Vict., No. 47 (Mining Act Amendment (QUEBEC) 55 & 56 Vict., c. 20. 1893. No. 2) 1892. (NEW ZEALAND) 55 Vict., No. 48 (Mining Companies Act Amendment) 1892. 1893. (ONTARIO) 56 Vict., c. 115 1893. (NEW BRUNSWICK). 1893. (NOVA SCOTIA) 56 Vict., c. 2 (BRITISH COLUMBIA) 56 Vict., c. 29 (Mineral Act Amendment) 1893. (NEW ZEALAND) 57 Vict., No. 9 (Mining Amendment) 1893. (NEW ZEALAND) 57 Vict., No. 49 (Mining Amendment No. 2) 1893. (NEW ZEALAND) 57 Vict., No. 50 (Coal Mines Amendment) 297-302 TABLE OF CASES. Attorney-General of British Columbia r. Attorney-General of Canada, 14 Appeal Cases, 295 Mines Case of Plowden, 310 Moore r. Small 17 Cal. Rep., 199 Fremont v. Flower Woolley v. Attorney-General of Victoria, 2 Appeal Cases, 163 PAGE 226 20 . 160 . 226 A GUIDE TO THE MINING LAWS OF THE WORLD. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. AN important consideration in dealing with this subject has been the method in which it should properly be divided; and, although an alphabetical division following the names of the countries dealt with suggests itself as appropriate, it has been determined rather to divide it in the way in which the subject has naturally presented itself, starting from England, which on account of her great mineral production and the influence which her legislation has exercised over the legislation of other countries, appears entitled to take the first place, and passing on to other important mineral-producing countries in the order to some extent of their proximity to England, but having also regard to their comparative importance from the point of view of their mineral production, then dealing with India and the English Colonies and possessions (many of which, whilst following the law of the mother country as regards minerals in private lands, possess elaborate codes and regulations relative to mines of gold and silver or to other minerals in lands which still remain unappropriated by the Crown, or in lands from the original Crown grants of which the minerals have in one form or another been reserved) and concluding with references to two countries, China and Japan, which have but recently taken rank amongst the mineral-producing countries of the world, and particulars as to the legislation of which have been difficult to obtain. A glance at the following pages will at once show that in nearly every country, except England, there exists a special and extensive mass of codified legislation on the subject of mining, differing as between the various countries, and often as between different portions of the same country, in detail and sometimes in principle. On careful examination, however, it will be found that |