MINING REGULATIONS UNDER “THE MINES ACT, 1877.”

Kumara Times, Issue 713, 11 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 otf a prospecting claim, as provided in Regulation 11, and shall immediately report such discovery with full particulars to tbe 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 be think fit, refrain from granting or refusing such claim until the ground shal I have been visited by j himself or by anyone appointed by him. Notices of all prospecting claims granted, 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 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 , grant a prospecting claim for any new 1 ■discovery of a quartz leef at a less dis. ! tance than half ft mile from any j previously existing quartz workings. ! Every prospecting claim shall, after 1 being marked, be held by one man re- ! maiuing on the ground during working ! hours until tin- application is dealt with, i and, if granted, the claim must, unless i by special permission of the Warden, j be fully occupied within seven days ! from the dale of grant. j The Warden may, if he think fit, i giant a prospecting claim to the actual discoverer of new *.old workings con-j jointly with persons who have assisted | them in prospecting either with contri- | butions or otherwise, or with other persons who may be nominated by the actual disco "guts, 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 fmr, 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 within half a mile of any other such prospecting area. Provided fur her that such protection shall only con ioue m force until gold is struck, in which wise the' discovery -hall be reported, or until die lioldo s are required by the Warden to mark a prospecting claim, in either o.t which cases a prosp c ing elaim shall be marked and applied for as provided in Regulation lE. and V., and protection shall tberupon cease as to the remainder ot such prospecting area.

. It shall lie lawful fur the Warden to renew from lime to time the protection for a prospecting area. Provide 1 that such renewed protection shall not be -granted for more chan three months at any time.

Every prospecting area shall be con- ; tinuously worked by at least two men i ‘luring the entire period of occupancy.