Mining Lease and Surface Rights: Copy of a letter from H. Laws, at the Naraguta Tin Mines, to Scarbrough, enclosing a copy of a letter from Resident Howard, Bauchi, to Laws, 29 Feb, 29 Mar 1908

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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fols. 39-42

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The topics being:

the withdrawal of Laws's Commission as Justice of the Peace and establishment, instead, of occasional Resident's Courts
the removal of police protection
Howard's stringent interpretation of the 'Surface Rights' clause in the Mineral Proclamation
Howard has also caused unrest among the inhabitants and traders on Company property.

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MSS. Afr. s. 89, fols. 39-42

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