Chapter VI: Appendix: Form I

THE MINERALS PROCLAMATION, 1910 (NORTHERN NIGERIA).

PROSPECTING RIGHT ____, NO. ____.

Licence, subject to the provisions of the said Proclamation and of the rules and regulations made thereunder, is hereby granted for twelve months from the date hereof to E. F. [_here insert name, address, and description of licensee]_ to prospect for minerals [_or as the case may be_] in such parts of the Protectorate as may not from time to time be closed to prospectors by Government Notice in the Gazette.

This ____ day of ____ 19____

(Signed)

GOVERNOR.

FORM II.

THE MINERALS PROCLAMATION, 1910 (NORTHERN NIGERIA), EXCLUSIVE LICENCE TO PROSPECT. NO. ____.

The exclusive right, subject to the provisions of the said Proclamation, and of the rules and regulations made thereunder, for one year from the ____ day of ____ is hereby granted to A. B. [_here insert name, address, and description of licensee_] to prospect for minerals [_or as the case may be_] within the following limits [_here insert boundaries of area_] as the same are delineated on the map attached hereto and coloured.

This ____ day of ____ 19____

(Signed)

_Governor._

FORM III.

THE MINERALS PROCLAMATION, 1910 (NORTHERN NIGERIA), MINING LEASE.

[_Insert nature of lease._ See s. 17.]

This lease is granted to ____ of ____ for mining purposes upon or under [_here describe area with boundaries_] as the same is delineated on the map attached hereto for the period of ____ years from the date hereof according to the true intent and meaning of the said Proclamation and subject to the provisions of the said Proclamation or of any Proclamation amending, altering, or repealing the same, and to all such rules and regulations as may from time to time be made under such Proclamation or Proclamations.

Dated this ____ day of ____ 19 ____

(Signed)

_Governor._

FORM IV.

THE MINERALS PROCLAMATION, 1910 (NORTHERN NIGERIA), ASSIGNMENT OF MINING LEASE.

Whereas under the provisions of the above-mentioned Proclamation a lease for mining purposes upon or under [_here describe area with boundaries, &c., as in original lease_] was on the ____day of ____ 19____, granted to ____ of ____ for a term of ____ years from the date thereof, and duly registered in Vol. ____ page ____ of the register of instruments affecting land. Now these presents witness that in consideration of the sum of ____ the said ____ [_lessee_] doth hereby assign to ____of ____ all his right title and interest in and under the said lease as from the ____ day of ____ for the remainder of the term thereof.

In witness, &c.

B.C.G.A. have a ginnery here]

(Now a prisoner in Lokoja. Was the cause of the Kano rising in 1907)]

(Chairman Champion Gold Reefs of West Africa, Ltd., and other important Nigerian Companies)]

(We were fighting them a year before)]

The Juga River runs down the centre and passes to the Nafuta Flats]

The river at this point is lost to sight thirty feet below the big boulders in the middle of the ravine]

A Nigerian Trader]

Engineer to the Niger Company]

Belonging to the Lucky Chance Mines, Limited]

Belonging to the Lucky Chance Mines, Limited]

Belonging to the Lucky Chance Mines, Limited]

Belonging to the Lucky Chance Mines, Limited]

Tin Fields of Northern Nigeria, Limited]

Tin Fields of Northern Nigeria, Limited]

Rein River (Nigeria), Tin Mining Co.]

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Gold and Tin Centrifugal Pump Sluicing Plants.

TIN DRESSERS.

_Complete Equipments supplied by the_

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