MINING REGULATIONS UNDER “THE MINES ACT, 1877.”

Kumara Times, Issue 616, 18 September 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 particulars to the Warden, and the ground so marked off shall be protected until 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 himself or by anyone appointed by him, I Notices of all prospecting claims [granted, with full particulars of locality, j [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 grant a prospecting claim for any new discovery at a less distance than two miles from any previously existing j workings in alluvial ground, nor to grant a prospecting claim for any new i discovery of a quartz teef at a Jess dis. j tance than half a mile from any, previously existing quartz workings. I Every prospecting claim shall, after j being marked, be held by one man re- : mailing on the ground during working hours until tin* application is dealt with, ; and, if granted, the claim must, unless | by special permission of the Warden, ; be fully occupied within seven clays from the date of grant. i The Warden may, if he think fit, grant a prospecting claim to the actual discoverer ot new > old workings con- 1 jointly with persons «ho have assisted: them in prospecting cither with contri-j butions or otherwise, or with other persons who may he nominated by the i actual disco^eiers, although the said! persons may not have been on the ( ground prior l ' to the granting thereof, j The Warden may, upon the applica- j tion of any persons forming a party of; not less than four, giant protection for; j not more than three months for a' prospecting area “ at a distance of not 1 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 1 workings: Provided in no case shall j any such prospecting area lie granted j within half a mile of any other such | prospecting area. Provided fun her j that such protection shall only continue i | in force until gold is struck, in which I case the discovery shall be reported, [ or u::til the holders are required i-y the Warden to mark a prospecting claim, in either of which cases a prospecting claim shall he marked and applied for as ' provided in Regulation 11. and V., and j protection shall therupon cease as to , the remainder ot such prospecting'area, j It* shall he lawful for the Warden to renew from time to time the protection for a prospecting area. Provided that jmich renewed protection shall not be ; granted tor more than three months-at ; any lime. j Every prospecting area shall he con- ' tinuously worke I by at least two men luring the entire period of occupancy.