been a common feature in the early history of mining legislation in many countries which have since come to acknowledge that the best way of developing their mineral resources, and of reaping the benefits to be derived therefrom, was to be found in encouraging the employment of the best mining talent and the most skilled mining labour, and the free investment of capital by all who might be able and willing to risk it, irrespective of nationality. Enlightened ideas are known to be now prevailing in Japan, and it may be hoped that the day is not far distant when, under future treaty obligations, the magnificent mineral resources of that favoured country will be thrown open to the mining enterprise of the world. PAGE Devon (see Stannaries). Austria-Hungary Expropriation, acquisition, or resump- PAGE 297-301, 304-5 5 Feraud-Giraud (L. J. D.), Mons. 21 166-7, 268 Foreigners restricted from the acquisi- Fomento (see Public Works). China (Note) 311 |