MINING REGULATIONS UNDER "THE MINES ACT, 1877."

Kumara Times, Issue 486, 17 April 1878, Page 4

MINING REGULATIONS UNDER "THE MINES ACT, 1877."

Any person discovering new gold ■working, "and being desirous of obtaining «n increased area hereon shall anaijk ojjf .a prospecting •efoinv flfl *nediately report such discovery with full the garden, and ground;so marked.o|( until the Warden shall have finally reused \oc graofed'.the claim; but the Warden may, if he think fit, refrain from granting or refusing such claim until theg%uhdshi,llh~aveDeenviaitedby -himself or by anyqne. appointed by him. Notices of all""prospecting claims igr&nted, with' fjn.ll pa&iculars of locality, jneld of-gold, and description of workings/ shall Toe posted by the Warden on *he outsfde" of his office for public inforanation,.: ; - It shall not be lawful for the Warden a r prospectiog claim ...for. any •new discovery at a 'less''distance than two miles from any previously existing workings {fig- 'alluvial' ground, nor to grant a. prospecting claim for any new. discoveryb^a'quartz'xeelf at a less dis. tanoe than half'a' mile from any deviously existing quartz workings. prospecting claim shall, after being;-marked? be, held by one man regaining, tm the ground during working hours tiae application is dealt with, and, if greyed, the claim rnust, unless bv, special permission of the Warden, be ralW" occupied within seven days from the dat-e' 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 contritions or otherwise, or with other persons who may 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. °f any persons forming a party of not less than four, graut protection for] not more than three months for a' prospecting area "at a distance of not less tlian'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 ca?e shall any such: prospecting: area be granted half a mile of any other such prospecting area.' Provided further that such protection shall only continue in force iintl gold is struck, in which c|se 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 marked and applied for as provided in Regulation 11. and V., and protection shall thernpon cease as to ot such prospecting area. It shall kg lawful for the. Warden to renew .from tinie to. time the protection for" a pr^s^c&rig; ar.ea. :! Provided that si\cji renewed' protection shall not be '.' : \ ' ; ■'■' '.'' ''■■■'. ;;^ k area shall be con-! worked'by . ,at least two men ! "luring the entire period : of oecupancy. i