MINING REGULATIONS UNDER “THE MINES ACT, 1877.”

Kumara Times, Issue 463, 21 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 claim, as provided in Regulation 11, and shall immediately, report 'such discovery with full the Warden, and the ground off shall be protected until the' Wardeu shall liave ''finally refused or grabbed’ claim; but the Warden may, 'if- hk tbiflk fit, refrain from granting et* refusing Such claim until the ground shal 1 ha ve 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 of his, office for public information.

It shall not be lawful for the Warden to a .prospecting claim for any new discovery at a less distance than iwol 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 dia. itance than half, a mile from any .previously existing quartz workings, i ; 'Every prospecting claim shall, after feeing marked,; be held by one man remaining, on the ground during working hours until the application is dealt with, if granted, the claim must, unless by special permission of the Warden, be fully occupied within ae«en days from the date of grant. The Warden may, if he think fit, grant a prospecting claim to the actual disco.verer of new gold workings conjjpintly with persons who have assisted them in prospecting either with conti ijhptipns ,or, otherwise, or with other persons wiio may be nominated by the actual discoverers, although the said jperspna 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 hot less than four, graut protection for 'hot more than three months for a /prospecting area “ at a distance of not Teas thini two miles from any existing Workings in alluvial ground, or in the case of quartz workings of not less than half a mile from any existing quartz workings : Provided in no case shall any such prospecting area be granted ' J Within-half- a mile of any other such prospecting area. Provided further such, protection shall only continue ih'force until gold, is struck, in which lease the . .discovery shall be reported, dr, until the holders are requix-ed by the iWardeh,to r mark a prospecting claim, fihieijliher of'which cases a prospecting claim shall be marked and applied for as <p«6vide& i& Jlegulatiou 11. and V., and protection .shall . therupon cease as to the remainder pt such/ prospecting area.

for the Warden to frpjtn. timje .to the protection for a prospecting area. Provided that j ( t tbad three! months at pin<*l f , V ' 7.’ V •do jt* .99P' tinuously worked by at least two men during the entire period of occupancy.