SLUICING CLAIMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1730, 17 April 1882, Page 2

SLUICING CLAIMS.

The time and mode of payment shall be as follows :—• 1. That the owners of any sluicing claim shall receive not less than two months’ water free of coat when first opening out; and the first payment for water shall not in any case be demanded for a period of four months from the date the water is first turned on. If good and sufficient reasons can be shewn, or if the water is being used for prospecting purposes, it shall be in the discretion of the manager to grant a further extension of time before insisting on payment. 2. Payments shall be made in full up to date immediately after each washingnp, provided that the interval between any two such payments shall not exceed two months, unless the manager shall in any case and for some special reason grant an extension of time for making such payments. 3. In the case of claims opened out at the time of the coming into force of these regulations, regulation No. 2 shall at once apply. 4. In case of the sale of a claim or any interest in a claim on account of which any moneys for water are due, it shall bo in the discretion of the manager to refuse any further supply of water to such claim until all arrears are paid. PADDOCK-WASHING PAYMENTS. Foil payment for water up to date shall be made immediately after the washing-np of each paddock.

PAYMENTS FOR WATER LIFTS. 1. When, such lifts Are Used in connection with sluicing claims a. Payments shall be made Us provided by regulations 1,2, 3, and 4, of these regulations For pUymtent of watef for sluicing claim's, b. are used iii connection with claims in Which the. washdirt is paddock-washed, payment shall be made Immediately aft'er 'the Washingup of each paddock. tJENERAt. 1. 11l ahy Uftse ip which it Shall api pear to the matiagel- of the race that aii attempt is likely to be blade by ilib owners of any claim or by any shareholders therein to Withhold payments of defraud the Government df wafer feeSj the said manager may at once refuse further Water-supply to the owners of the claim unless all arrears afe at once discharged ] and henceforth payments for water for such claims shall be made in advances 2. The Word 11 manager ” when used in these regulations means the person or officer appointed by the Minister of Mines and for the time l>eing in charge of the Kumara - Kawhaka Waimed water snpply-races, or either of them. 3. If the water in the races shall ab any time prove insufficient to supply the various c'aims using it, priority of right of supply shall be determined iii cases where branch head-raCe certificates are in existence by date of application for registration of such races] andj where there are no certificates, in accordance with the dates respectively when the original claimholders begin to use water.