MINING REGULATIONS UNDER “THE MINES ACT, 1877.”

Kumara Times, Issue 461, 19 March 1878, Page 4

MINING REGULATIONS UNDER “THE MINES ACT, 1877.”

Any person discovering new gold ■working, and being desirous of obtaining an increased area thereon shall mark off a prospecting claims as provided in Regulation JX; and shall immediately ?ejx>rfc sucn- discovery with full particulars to the Warden, and the .ground go marked ofi shall be protected Jintil the Warden shall have finally refused 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 iiimself 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 sfche outside of his office for public information.' It shall not be lawful for the Warden *to grant a prospecting claim for any new discovery at a less distance than ■two miles from any previously existing workings in alluvial ground, nor to grant a prospecting claim for any new •discovery of a quartz reef at a less dis. tance than half a mile from any ijprevteusly existing quartz workings. Every prospecting claim shall, after feeing marked, be held by one man remaining on the ground during working iours until the application is dealc with, and, if-granted, the claim must, unless by special permission of the Warden, toe .fully occupied within seven days »from the date of grant. The Warden may, if he think fit, .grant a prospecting claim to the actual •discoverer of new gold workings conjointly with persons who have assisted them in prospecting either with contributions or otherwise, or with other persons who may be nominated by the actual discoverers, although the said jpersous 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 aiot less .than four, grant protection for mot more than three months for a prospecting area " at a distance of not less than two miles from any existing workings in alluvial ground, or in the case of quartz workings of not less than half a raile. from "any existing quartz workings: Provided in no cape shall any such prospecting area be granted within 1 half a mile of any other such prospecting area. Provided further ihat such protection shall only continue n force; until gbkl is struck, in which iase ; the discovery shall be reported, >r until the holders are required by the tVarden to mark a prospecting claim, a either'of "which cases a prospecting laini' shall be marked and applied for as trovided in Regulation It. and V., and rotection shall tberupen cease as to lie remainder ot such prospecting area. :It stialT"be' lawful for-the Warden to anew fromTtime to time the protection ir a prospecting area. -Provided that ich' renewed protection shall; not be rarited'for; more than;.three (months: at jy>tiin& .!?,•;•« 7_-.rr-.---r ■■■■ :• ■ ■'/ .-.•, i EvervJ'proapectihg' area-; shall be conhuously worked by at least two men iring the entire period of occupancy-