MINING ON THE RAND.
A NEW LAW. ' 1.-" COLOURED PERSONS CANNOT ACQUIRE RIGHTS., BY IELEORAPH—PRESS' ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT v London', March 27. • Tho new Rand gold law vests tho solo rights of mining for . gold in tho Crown, and of base metals m the' land: owner. Discoverers are to bo granted fifty olaims froo. Tho Government may '.'.proclaim " privato land without , tho ownors' • consent, and also erect public batteries and;smolting . . • Only' Whites' will .-bo. ; allowed to trado in mines! land coloured persons will not bo. allowed to 'acquire any rights , under the- gokl law, i'.-- or reside -on a goldficld, except ;in bazaars, locations; •or 'mining compounds; •
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 159, 30 March 1908, Page 7
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105MINING ON THE RAND. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 159, 30 March 1908, Page 7
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