Farm tin or the tin dues was one of a number of payments required of tin miners in Devon and Cornwall. The holder of a mining sett was required to pay a portion of the black tin extracted to the holder of the tin bounds in which the sett was granted. The portion was the "farm tin".[1] The portion was normally interpreted to be one-twelfth of extracted tin: they were also required to play toll tin, calculated at one fifteenth.[2]
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- Bainbridge, William (1867). A treatise on the law of mines and minerals. Butterworths.
- Gunning, Frederic (1833). A practical treatise on the law of tolls: and therein, of tolls thorough and traverse. Saunders and Benning.
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