Section 2: In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-

" concession" means (a) any writing whereby any right, interest or property in or over land with respect to minerals was granted before the first day of January, 1929, by the Tribal Authority of the Marampa Chiefdom in the Protectorate to the Mrican and Eastern Trade Corporation, 1.Il1ited, and (b) any writin~ whereby any !ight, interest or 1 ertY in or over land With respect to trmber, rubber or P~~~r products of the soil, or the option of acquiring any such 0. ht interest or property, purports to be granted or agreed ~~b~ granted eit~er befor~ or after the 1st day of January, 1929, by any native or natives. " Court " means the Concessions Court as hereinafter established. The " holder " of a concession includes any person exercising entitled to exercise, or claiming to be entitled to exercise anY of the rights granted under such concession by the native grantor; and all such persons shall be deemed to hold a concession whether their claim thereto to be as grantees, or as assignees, or as the successors in title of such grantees or assignees by operation of law. " land " includes land which forms the bed of any river, stream, lake or lagoon. " native " includes all persons of African birth who are entitled by native customs to rights in land in the Colony or Protectorate. " Tribal Authority " means paramount chiefs and their councillors and men of note, or sub-chiefs and their councillors and men of note. The expressions " Chief Inspector of Mines ", " mine " and " mining ", " minerals ", " open-cast ", " prospect " and "prospecting ", " shaft " and " pit " and " tributer " have the same meanings as those respectively assigned to them by the Minerals Ordinance.