MINING REGULATIONS UNDER “THE MINES ACT, 1877.”

Kumara Times, Issue 485, 16 April 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 pro-, Vided in Regulation 11, and shall im--Tnediatejy report such discovery with full particulars to the Warden, and the ; ■ground so'marked off shall be protected •until the Warden shall have finally re--fused or granted the claim but the Warden may, if he think fit, refrain from granting or refusing such -claim 'Until the ground shallhave been visited by dutnself or by anyone appointed by him. Notices of all prospecting claims 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 inforf.mation. It shall not be lawful for the Warden to grant, a .prospecting claim for any new discoveiy at a leas 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. tanoe than half a mile from any previously existing quartz workings. Every prospecting claim shall, after being marked, be held by one man retmaining on the ground during working ihoiirsTihtil the application is dealt with, and, if granted, the claim must, unless ■bygp'ecial permission of the Warden, be fully occupied within seven days from the date of grant. The Waiden 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 ho _msty be nominated by the actual discoverers, 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 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 wifh'ih half a mile of any other such prospecting area. Provided further that SQch protection shall only continue in..force until gold is struck, in which else the discovery shall be reported, or until the holders are required by the Warden to mark a prospecting claim, in'either of which cases a prospecting claim shall-be tMrked and applied for as provided in .Regulation 11. and V., and prptectiqn. shall, therupon cease as to the remainder pi such prospecting area. It shall be lawful for the Warden to treneW frbid '-tithe to ttafe the protection for h pfdapecting area. that renewed protection shall not be ‘ijrMhtefclffetr more than three months at ahy tiVite.- * ' Eveity- prospecting area shall be continuously worked by at. least two men during the entire period of occupancy.