MINING REGULATIONS UNDER “THE MINES ACT, 1877.”

Kumara Times, Issue 733, 4 February 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 11, and shall inn mediately report such discovery with fall particulars to the Warden, and the ground so marked off shall be protected until the Warden shall have finally rer fused or granted the claim ; but the Waiden may, if he think tit, refrain from granting or refusing such claim until the ground shall have been visited by himself or by anyone appointed by liini. 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 fur the Warden to grant a prospecting claim for any new discovery at .a less distance than two aides from any previously existing workings in alluvial ground, nor to giant a prospecting claim for any new discovery of a quartz leef 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 tire application is dealt with, and, it granted, the claim must, unless by 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 actual discoverer of new gold workings conjointly with persons who have assisted them in prospecting either with contributions pr otherwise, or with other persons wuo may lie nominated by the actual discovers, although the said persons may not have been on thp ground prior to the granting ihereof. The Warden may, upon the application of any persons forming a party of not less than four, 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 or.se of quart? workings of not less than balf a mile from any existing quartz workings: Provided in no case'shall any such prospecting area be 1 granted within half a mile of any other such prospecting area. Provided further that such protection shall only continue in force until gold is struck, in which v ase the discovery ,-hall be roported, or until the holders are required oy the Warden to mark a prospecting claim, in either of which cases a prospecting claim shall be marked and applied for as provided in .Regulation 11. and V., and protection shall therupou cease as to the remainder of such prospecting area. It shall be lawful for the Warden to yenew from time to time the protection for a prospecting area. Provided that such renewed protection shall not be granted for wore than three months at any lime.