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OF CORNWALL^ lOi accustomed farm; unless ariy of the odaer «^^^««^»""^tom- owners have set their parts ; and i|i that case othere have%- the owner or owners, so refusing to adventure, servcd,attheop- m ff • i/» II tion of the own- sbaU have such farm as the other owners^ tn so refusing. who have set their parts, have reserved in their set, or else the accustomed farm at the election of the said owYier, or owners so re- fusing to adventure. Q. Item, Whereas it is a frequent practice 9- n« tinner* far tinners working in hounds or several lands, tLSfromad- to dig and carry away tin or tin stuff from Joining bounds; the next adjoining bounds^ lands^ or ad- ventures in the same bounds or lands; and it has hitherto been considered as the law of. the stannaries, that the tinners so digging and carrying away tin or tin stuff have right to the same, ,till notice given them by the owners of the next adjoining bounds, lands, or adventures, and until an admeasurement is had by virtue of the Vice- Warden's order, which practice has often been productive of great frauds in the working of mines ; now in order to prevent such frauds, and to put an end to a practice so unequitable. Be it hereby declared and enacted, that it shall not be lawful for any owner or owners, adventurer or adventurers, tinner or tinners, under any pretended right or custom whatsoever, to dig or carry away tin or tin stuff from the next adjoining bounds, lands, or adjoining adventures in the same bounds or lands. And if they or either of them so do, they shall '^^^^y ^o so, be answerable for the tin or tin stuff they so damg«. carry away, to the owners of and adventurers in the next adjoining lands or bounds, or adjoining adventures in the same lands or N bounds.