MINING REGULATIONS UNDER " THE MINES ACT, 1877."

Kumara Times, Issue 467, 26 March 1878, Page 4

MINING REGULATIONS UNDER " THE MINES ACT, 1877."

Any person discovering new gold 'workingj and being desirous of obtaining an increased area thereon shail mark off |a prospecting claim, as provided in *Regalaiioh 11, and shall imtfnediately report such.- discovery .with full particulars to the Warden, and the aground So marked off shall be protected •until the Warden shall have finally refused or .'.granted: the claim ; but 'Warden.imay:/ if he think fit; refrain from granting qr refusing.,such claim. <until thegroundshallhave been visited by himself or by anyone appointed by him. Notices of all prospecting claims :granted,f with full particulars of locality, .yield of gold, and description of workings, shall he posted by the Warden on «the outside of his office for public inforjmation. \ ■

It shall not be lawful for the Warden sto grant a prospecting claim for any new discovery at a less distance than *wo miles from any previously existing workings in alluvial ground, nor to grant a prospecting claim for any new of a quartz reef at a less dis. tance than half a mile from any existing quartz workings. Every prospecting claim shall, after 3being marked, be held by one man reanaining on -thei ground during working hours until the application is dealt with, if granted}"the claim must, unless by special permission, of the Warden, ibe fully .occupied within seven days irom the' date of grant. The Warden may; if he think fit, grant a prospecting claim to the -actual 4ißCover«fcpf 3*ew 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 disco vet era, although the said gpersons may not have been on the .ground srior-tp.the granting thereof. The Warden may, upon the application of any persons forming a party of *iot less, than four, graut protection for ttot more, than three months for a less than tiwo 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 «ny such, prospecting, area be granted half a mile of any other such prospecting area. Provided further that such protection shall only continue In force" until gold is struck, in which •case the discoveryshall be reported, or until thg f required by the Warden iomarkf a prospecting claim, in either of which cases a prospecting «laimshall, be marked and applied for as provided in'ftegulation 11. and V., and protection 3 abjasll thenipoh cease as to the j»majmder qt such prospecting area. It renew to protection for a prospecting area., iPrpvided that such renewed ,ptotection, shall not be granted for more than three months at Anytime. *£ 0 I T 0 l .;! [ 'v \r

; Every propee%g,are%, shaji be, conthmously worked by at least two men inring the eutaeipijip4'/pf pcpupancy.