MINING REGULATIONS UNDER "THE MINES ACT, 1877."

Kumara Times, Issue 719, 18 January 1879, Page 4

MINING REGULATIONS UNDER "THE MINES ACT, 1877."

Any person 'discovering new gold working, and being desirous of obtaining an increased urea thereon shall uiiirk otf a prospect-ins? claim, as provided in Regulation IT, and shall immediately report such discovery with full particulars to the Warden, and tinground so marked ofi shall be protected until the Warden shall have dually refused or granted the claim ; but the Waiden may, if he think fit, retrain from granting or refusing such claim until th<* ground shall have been visited by himself or by anyone appointed by him. Notices <»f 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 graut 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 claim for any new discovery of a quartz ieef «t a less dis tance than half a mile from any previously existing quartz workings. Kwvy prospecting claim shall, aftei being marked, be held by one man remaining on the ground during working hours until the application isdeaii with", and, if granted, the, claim must, unless by 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 nclual discoverer of new fold workiu."s conjointly with persons *.ho have assisted them in prospecting either with cont ibutions or otherwise, or with other per sons wi.o may he nominated by the actual disco"eier>, although the said persons may not have been on the ground prior to the granting (hereof.

The Warden may, upon the application <»f any persons forming a party <i not less than four, grant protection for not more than three months for a pr.-s| ecting area " at a distance of not h-ss than two miles from ;uiy existinc workings in alluvial ground, or in the case of quartz workings of not less than half a mile from any existing q<iar /, workings : Provided in no case .sh;.]l any such pro>pe.cting area be granted within half a mile of any other sm-h prospecting area. Provuk-d fm- lir that, .such protect! >n shall only con rme i.i to ce until gold is s'nick, in wlii h orise the discovery -had be reported, or u:;til 'he lioldo s are req lived hy tin! Warden to mark a prospering cliim, in either of which cases a prosp c in<>olaii.i shall be marked and applied for as provided in Regulation 11. and V., and protection shall therupon cease as to the remainder ot such prospectiu" area. Jt .-dial I l.e lawfid for the Warden to renew from time to time the protection for a prospecting .rea. Provide I that such r newed protection shall not he granted for more than tnree mouths at any time.

Every prospecting area shall he continuously worked by at least two m-u luring the entire period of occupancy.