MINING REGULATIONS UNDER “THE MINES ACT, 1877.”

Kumara Times, Issue 623, 26 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 IT, 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 shal I have been visited by hhnself or by anyone appointed by him, - Notices of all prospecting claims granted, with full particulars of locality, I yield of gold, and description of workings, shall be posted by the Warden on , the outside of his office for public infori mation.

It shall not be lawful for the Warden I to grant a prospecting claim for any I new discovery at a less distance than | two miles from any previously existing ; workings in alluvial ground, nor to i grant a prospecting claim for any new j discovery of a quartz teef at a less dis. j tance than half a mile from any j previously existing quartz workings. j Every prospecting claim shall, after I being marked,, be held by one man re-1 maining on the ground during working hours until the application is dealt with, ■ and, if granted, the claim must, unless |»y.'special permission of the Warden, be fully occupied within seven days from the date of grant. ! The Warden may, if he think fit, grant a prospecting claim to the actual discoverer of new old workings con- : jointly with persons *ho have assisted j them in prospecting either with contri- ! butions or otherwise, or with other per-1 sons who may he nominated by the; actual discoverers, although the said! persons may not have been on the i ground prior to the granting thereof. i The Warden may, upon the applica- j turn of any persons forming a party of' not less than four, grant protection for; not more than three months for a ; prospering area “ at a distance of not 1 less than two miles from any existing workings in alluvial ground, or in the case of quartz wor kings of not less than half a mile from any existing quanz workings : Provided iu no case shall any such prospering area be granted within half a mile of any other such ! prospecting area. Provided fur: her that such protection shall only continue m force uutil gold is struck, iu whicty case 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 prospering claim shall be marked and applied for as iprovided in Regulation'll, and V., and ; protection shall thernpon cease as to , the remainder ot such prospecting'area, i It shall be lawful for the Warden to i renew from;time to time the protection j for a .prospecting area. Provided that |>uch renewed protection shall not be ! granted for more tbaii three months at • any time. I Every prospecting area shall be con- ! tinuoualy worked by at least two m-n during the entire period of occupancy.