MINING REGULATIONS UNDER "THE MINES ACT, 1877."

Kumara Times, Issue 418, 28 January 1878, Page 4

MINING REGULATIONS UNDER "THE MINES ACT, 1877."

Any person discovering new gold working, and being desirous of obtain•ing an increased aisa thereon shall mark off a prospecting claim, as provided in Regulation 11, and shall immediately report gncb discovery with full particulars to the Warden, and the ground so marked off shall be protected until the Warden shall have finally refused or granted the claim; but the Warden may, if he think lit, refrain from granting or refusing sn«;h claim until th<- ground shall have been visited by | himself or by anyone appointed hy-him. Notices of. all prospecting cHawis granted, with full particulars of locality, yield of gold, and description of workings, shall be posted by the Warden on the outside of his office for pulijic inforbutions or otherwise, or withotherperT sons who may be nominated r by the actual discovers, although the said persons may not have been on the ground prior to the granting thereof. The Warden may, upon the application of any persons forming a party of not less than four, grant protection for not more than three months 'for a | prospecting area "at a distance of not | less than two miles from any existing 1 workings in alluvial ground, or in the ( case of quartz workings of not less than I half a mile froih any existing quartz | workings: Provided in no shall | any such pi'qspeoting area be granted j within half a mile of any other such | prospecting 'area. Provided fur. her ] that such protection shall only continue I in force until gold is struck, in which ; case the' discovery shall be reported, ! or until the holders are required by the | Warden to mark a prospecting claim, j in either of which cases a prospecting j claim shall he marked and applied for as provided in Regulation. 11. and V., and protection shall therupon cease as to the l'eraainder ot such prospecting area. It shall he lawful for the Warden to I renew from time to time the protection i for a prospecting area. - Provided that such renewed protection shall not be granted for more than ttiree months at ; any time. ' Every prospecting area sbdl be conj tinivuslv worked by at least two men j during the entire period of occupancy.