Dean Forest Act 1861
1Declaration of the Interest conferred on a Galee by the Grant of a Gale.
2Conditions on which all Leases of Stone, Clay, or Sand are held.
3Nothing in Act to affect Right of Re-entry, &c.
4Person in actual Possession or Receipt of Proceeds of Gale to pay the Rent.
5Empowering the Gaveller to sue in the County Court.
6Enlarging the Powers conferred by 25th Section of the recited Act as to Leases of Land for Mining Purposes.
7Provision as to the Days for the Cesser and Determination of the Galeage and other Rents.
8Extending Powers of the Arbitrator under 27th, 47th, and other Sections of the recited Act.
9Power to Gaveller or Deputy Gaveller to refuse the Registry of any Transfer until the Rent has been paid.
10As to the Form of Minute of Registry.
11Power to refuse the Registry of any Transfer which is imperfect.
12Gaveller or Deputy Gaveller empowered to endorse Memorandum of Entry of Transfer on the last preceding Transfer instead of upon the original Certificate of the Grant of a Gale.
13Provision as to Fee for Entry of Minute of Transfer.
14All unregistered Transfers to be void.
15Empowering the Commissioners of Woods to grant Licences to sink Pits and to use or exercise other Rights and Easements, &c. in Inclosures and other Lands in the Forest.
16Varying the Powers of the Gaveller as to awarding Compensation for Surface Damage to inclosed Lands.
17Commissioners of Woods may grant Leases of any Clay or Sand which may be found in any Mine or Pit.
18Varying the Third Rule relating to Surrender of Quarries by substituting Michaelmas Day for Lady Day.
19All Gales of Coal or Iron Mines, and all Gales or Leases of Quarries determined by Notice to be void without any Deed, Surrender, or other Act.
20Surrenders other than by Notice may be made and accepted by the Gaveller on behalf of Her Majesty.
21Gaveller or Deputy Gaveller, with Consent of Owners, may unite or divide Two or more Gales or Parts of Gales, and regrant them to the Persons entitled after Surrender duly made.
22All Instruments already made or hereafter to be made by or on behalf of Her Majesty in relation to the Forest or Hundred to be exempt from Stamp Duty.
23Gaveller or Deputy Gaveller to settle any Disputes as to Boundaries, and to alter (with Consent of Owners) the Boundaries of any adjoining Gales.
24Power to the Gaveller or Deputy Gaveller to license the working and disposing of the Coal in any Barrier.
25Explaining the Provisions of the 10 G. 4. c. 50. and 1 & 2 Vict. c. 42. as to Trespasses in the Forest.
26Provision as to Woodmen's or Labourers Cottages in the Forest.
27All Acts authorized to be done by Commissioners of Woods, &c. may be done by One.
281 & 2 Vict. c. 43. and this Act to be construed as One.
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Dean Forest Act 1861

1861 Chapter 40

An Act to make further Provision for the Management of Her Majesty's Forest of Dean, and of the Mines and Quarries therein and in the Hundred of Saint Briavels in the Comity of Gloucester.

WHEREAS the Commissioners appointed by the [1 & 2 Vict. c. 43.] Act of the First and Second Years of Her present Majesty, Chapter Forty-three, intituled An Act for regulating the opening and working of Mines and Quarries in the Forest of Dean and Hundred of Saint Briavels in the County of Gloucester, duly made and published in pursuance of the Provisions in the said Act contained Three several Awards relating respectively to Coal Mines, Iron Mines, and Quarries, and dated respectively the Eighth Day of March, the Twentieth Day of July, and the Twenty-fourth Day of July, in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-one, which Awards contained Rules and Regulations for working the Coal Mines, Iron Mines, and Quarries respectively within the said Forest and Hundred : And whereas by the said Act a Power of Appeal to Her Majesty in Council against the Awards to be made by the said Commissioners within Three Months from the making and publishing of such Awards was reserved to all Parties who might deem themselves aggrieved thereby, but no such Appeal was ever made against any of the said Awards, whereby the said Awards have now become absolute and indefeasible : And whereas both before and since the passing of the said Act the Gales of Coal and Iron in the said Forest and Hundred have been granted without any Limitation or Declaration of the Estate or Interest of the Galee, or Words of Inheritance, (but with Power under the Act to transfer the same,) and by reason of such Omission Doubts might be entertained whether Grants of Gales conferred more than Estates for Life or for some other partial Interest ; but inasmuch as it has been commonly supposed that such Grants enured for the Benefit of the Galees, their Heirs and Assigns, so long as the Mine, Vein, or Work galed or granted remained unexhausted, and the Galees, their Heirs or Assigns, duly observed and performed the Conditions subject to which it was galed or granted, Her Majesty, being minded to quiet all Doubts on the Subject, is willing and has consented that the Rights or Interests of Galees should be defined and declared in accordance with the common Opinion aforesaid to the Extent and in manner herein-after contained : And whereas it is also expedient to alter and amend certain Parts of the said Act, and of the said Rules and Regulations made in pursuance thereof, and to make certain other Provisions with reference to the Mines and Quarries within the said Forest and Hundred :

Be it enacted and declared by the Queen'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, as follows :