| Description | Topics include payment, surrendering or exchange of leases and the clauses of existing lease agreements. Special mentions are made to an interest claim and to leases from the Duke of Portland for the Portland and Kirkby collieries, including discussion of barriers and references to coal on land owned by the Midland Railway. Copy of the lease of the Top Hard seam from the Duke of Portland to the Butterley Company, Nov 1912. Includes list of minimum rents for copyhold, dated Jul 1911. Discussion of a new coalfield at the Welbeck Coalfield and the lease terms being unacceptable link to the draft lease document [old reference N5/92/7]. |