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formation of the mining sett is in discordance with the natural formation of the ore deposit in such a manner as is unfit for the full exploitation of the mines. In all these cases, however, application to the Court of Administrative Litigation is allowed. The director of the Mining Inspection Office is authorized, if he find some part of the mining work injurious to the public welfare or dangerous, to order the temporary suspension of the mining work, or proper arrangements for the prevention of the injury or danger. Special facilities are given to the miner, that he may, with the permission of the director of the Mining Inspection Office, survey any part of the land belonging to other persons without the consent of the owner, and that no one may reject his request to lease any land except railway, tramway, public road, river, lake, dyke, park, building site, etc., if he want it for erecting refineries or other buildings, for constructing road, tramway, railway, etc. It may be added that prior to 1900, Japanese subjects only were allowed to undertake mining industry or become the partners or shareholders of a mining company, but according to the amendment introduced in the same year, any Japanese subject or any company organized in accordance with the Japanese Commercial Code may undertake mining industry in Japan, so that foreigners may now take part in the mining industry in Japan as partners or shareholders of a mining company.

In 1893 a special law for placer mining was enacted, which contained in the main articles of the same purport with those of the Mining Law.

The output of the principal mineral products for the at 1901 was as follows: