MINING REGULATIONS UNDER “THE MINES ACT, 1877.”

Kumara Times, Issue 706, 3 January 1879, 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 If, and shall immediately report such discovery with full particulars to the Warden, and the ground so marked oft shall be protected until the Warden shall have finally refused or granted the claim ; but the Wat den may, if he think tit, refrain from granting or refusing such claim until thi-groundshall have been visited by himself or by anyone appAnted by him. Notices of all prospecting claims granted, with full particulars of locality, yield of gold, and descrip'ion of workings, shall be posted by the Warden on the outside of his oftice 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 workings in alluvial ground, nor to giant a prospecting c'aim for any lew discovery of a quartz icef at a less dis tauce than half a mile from any previously existing quartz workings. Every prospecting claim shall, after being marked, be held by one man remaining on the ground during working hours until the application is dealt with, and, if granted, the claim must, unless liy special permission of the Warden, be fully occupied within seven days from the dale of grant. The Warden" may, if he think fit, grant a prospecting claim to the act mil discoverer of new gold workings conjointly with persons "ho have assisted them in prospecting either with contributions or otherwise, or with other persons who may be nominated by the actual disco«enrs, 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 id not less than f >ur, grant protection for not more than three mouths 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 qu-irtz workings of not less than half a mile from any existing qnur z workings ; Provided in no case shall any such prospecting area be granted within half a mile of any other such prospecting area. Provided fur h ■!• that such protection shall only con i ,ne m foi ce until gold is struck, in which the discovery -hail be reported, or until the holde s are required 0y the Warden to mark a pmspecing cl dm, in either of which cases a prosp c ing claim shall bo marked ami-applied Fur as provided in Regulation 11. mid V., and protection shall therupou cease as to the remainder ot such prospecting area.

It shall be lawful for the Warden to renew from lime to time the protec-ion for a prospecting area. Provide 1 that such renewed protection shall not be granted for more than toree months at any time.

Every prospecting ami slnll be coui Sinuously worked by at least two rnui I during the entire period of occupancy.