MINING REGULATIONS UNDER “THE MINES ACT, 1877”

Kumara Times, Issue 457, 14 March 1878, Page 4

MINING REGULATIONS UNDER “THE MINES ACT, 1877”

finy persondiscovering' nfcw .gold working, and 'being desirous of obtaining an increased area thereon shall marie off a prospecting claim, ; as ; provided in Regulation 11, and shall immediately report- such discovery with full particulars .to, the.Wai-dcaji jand'the ground so marked off shall be protected until the Warden shall have finally, 1-67 fused or granted the claim; but .the-. Warden may, if he think fit, refrain from granting or refusing such claim until the ground shall have been visited by himself or by anyone appointed by him. Notices of all prospecting, claims granted, with full particulars of locality, yield of gold, and description of workings, shall be posted by' the Warden on ’the outside pf.his office for publicinformation. 1. ‘ • ,

It shall nOt'be lawful for the Warden tfco grant a'prospecting claim for • atiy tneyrdiscovpqr' at .a-lefts' distance than •itwd miWfrbm any previously existing workings in alluvial ground, nor W grant a prospecting claim for any new •‘disjfevety'ofrai quartz reef at a less dis. tai^ce^ithan 11 half 1 a (i mile from any .prMfthslj workings. Every prospecting claim shall, after >heing marked,-tie held by one man remaining On the ground during working haum until the:app]ica,tion is dealt with, rand, \f must, unless by special permission of the Warden, he'fully occupied- within- seven - days •from the date of grant. The Warden may, if he .think fit, •grant arprpspecting claimdo-the-actual ■discoverer-of new gold workings-' conjointly who have assisted them in prospecting’either with contributions' or Otherwise-, or with other persons who may ihe. nominated by the actnal discoyerers* although the said peipqps.. .may . pot ’ have. been ‘ on the grolfnd prior to' tW granting thereof. The Waft’en mky,' .upon the application q£ ( any persons forming a party of not ic«s‘ihan four, gtaut protection for not moreV’than > three months 1 for a prpsjieplipg’area “ at a distance .of not r r in the case workings not less than half a mile from any existing quartz .» inoTpafev shall any such'prospecting area l he “gfant'ecl within half a mde ; df' : ’at!y other such area.T/'BrSvuTe'd further that wich protection shall only continue In force until gold itf-struck, in which case the discovery i-hal) be reported, or until the holders are required i»y the Warden to pupis a prospecting claim, in eitljeg ,qf which cases a .prospecting claim shall he marked and applied for as prptldedin Eegnlationill. and and pvptpcjnpn. fihall. tbenipon cease as to th^i^rofdiifler.of aiiph. prospecting area. 5 iMhtdhbp-- lawful for., tjie Warden: to rdhew» from.;.time to. time the protection for J *qll , ()Bp6(ytiTvg'aim. that such renewed protection shall not be granted for indre tffau three rnonths at any time. Every prospective-area shall be continuously- wioftdd^Vy ' it kastttWp-, men daring the entir# period of occupancy. ’ ’ v .j£*