Crown Pre-emption of Lead Ore Act 1815

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1815 c. 134
Year1815
Anno Regni GEORGII III. Britanniarum Regis,Quinquagesimo Quinto. An Act for altering the Rate at which The Crown may exercise its Right of Pre-emption of Ore in which there is Lead.

(55 Geo. 3) C A P. CXXXIV.

[4th July 1815]

'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of Their late Majesties KingWilliam and Queen Mary , intituled , Ownersof Mines within the Kingdom ofEngland , Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed , wherein any Ore should be discovered, and in which there is Copper, Tin, Iron or Lead, are authorized to hold and enjoy the same Mines and Ore, and to continue in Possession thereof, and to dig and work the said Mines, notwithstanding that such Mines or Ore should be pretended or claimed to be Royal Mines subject to a Rightin Their Majesties, their Heirs and Successors, and all claiming any Royal Mines under them, to have the Ore of any such Mines in any Part of the said Kingdom ofEngland , Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed , other than Tin Ore in the Counties of Devon and Cornwall , paying to the Proprietors or Owners of the said Mines certain Rates contained in the said Act, in the manner and according to the Limitations specified in the said recited Act: And Whereas the Rate therein directed to be paid for all Ore wherein there is Lead is in consequence of the Lapse of Time and Change of Circumstances since the passing of the said recited Act become inadequate to the increased Expence of raising the same, and it is reasonable therefore that the same should be increased;' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by The King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That, from and after the passing of...

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