DUPLICATE MINERS' RIGHTS.
I (to the editor.) Sir— ln your issue of the 27th ult. appears a letter signed "Observer," in which he complains of the necessity of having to take out an additional miners' right for every additional claim that a person holds, according to the Gold Fields Act, although at the same time it is represented by the holder of a miners' right employed for wages thereon. Now, Sir, 1 have employed wages men for the last two years, and I always took out an additional miners 1 right for every man 1 employed, besides seeing that the men also had a miners' right, so that it actually took two miners' rights to hold one claim. The reading of the following sections of the "Gold Fields Act, I860," lead me to think that it was necessary to do so. Section VIII. reads as follows:— "It shall be lawful to issue any number of miners' rights, not exceeding six, to any person applying for the same, and the holder of such miners' right shall be entitled to Occupy, either separately or conjointly, a corresponding number of claims, provided that there shall be employed thereon at least one man for each claim ao occupied." Section XOVII:— "Any person not being the owner of a miners' right or of a gold mining lease, under this Act, who shall mine for gold upon any proclaimed gold field, and any person who shall employ any such unauthorised person so to mine" is liable to penalties which is mentioned in the same section. Now, Sir, according to your statement, if I understand it properly, it ia not necessary for both the owner of a claim and the man he has employed thereon to have miners' rights. If such is the case, I can only say that I, in common with many other miners, have paid away many a pound for miners' rights which we had no occasion to do, as I am sure most of the miners read these sections as I have done. Trusting that something maybe done to enlighten us on this subject, I am, &c. A Miner, Napoleon Hill, Oct. 28th, 1871. -
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Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1020, 2 November 1871, Page 2
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361DUPLICATE MINERS' RIGHTS. Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1020, 2 November 1871, Page 2
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