MINING REGULATIONS UNDER "THE MINES ACT, 1877.”

Kumara Times, Issue 743, 15 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 pror vided in Regulation XI, and shall iim mediately 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 1 ha ve been visited by llimself or by anyone appointed by him. Notices of all prospecting claims full particulars of locality, yield of gold-, and dhamption of work? mgs, shall be postiSjHk W T arden on the outside of his information. 1 It shall not he 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 discovery of a quart? leef at a loss dis. tance tlpm half a mile from any previously existing quartz workings. Every prospecting claim shall, after being marked, be held by one man re : maining on the ground during working hours until the application js dealt with, and, if granted, the claim must, unless by special permission of the Warden, be fully occupied within seven days from the date of grunt. ~ 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 qr otherwise, or with other persons who may be nominated by the actual discoverers, although the said persons may not have been on the ground prior to the granting (hereof. The Warden may, upon the a [(plication of any persona 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 case of quartz workings of not less than half a mile from any existing quart? workings; Provided in no case‘shall any such prospecting area be gran toil within half a mile of any other and) prospecting area. Provided fur her that such protection shall only cominue in force until gold is struck, in which wise the discovery devil he reported, or until the holders aye required l,y tfie Warden to mark a prospecting claim, in either of which ca*es a prospecting claim shall be marked and applied for as provided in Regulation 11. and \ r ., and protection shall tlierupon cea>e as to the remainder ot such prospecting area. It shall he lawful for the. Warden to renew from time to time the p,rotec>inn for a prospecting area. Provided Unit such renewed protection shall nut be j granted for more than three months at I my