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Kumara Times, Issue 2379, 14 April 1884, Page 3

Proposed rules and conditions FOR THE KUMAR A SLUDGE-CHANNEL. Notice is posted at the Court House that objections to the following new Rules and Conditions may be lodged at the Warden’s Court, Kumara, on Friday next, the 18th inst.;— 1. All former regulations and conditions are hereby repealed, but this repeal shall not affect any rights acquired under the regulations and conditions so repealed. 2. In the interpretation of these regulations the following words shall have the meanings herein assigned to them : “ Sludge-channel ” shall mean the main tail-race commonly known as the Kumara Sludge-channel, and held under certificate of registration, No. and every part thereof : “Tail-race” shall mean a registered tail-race opening into the sludgechannel, for the purpose of discharging tailings and debris into the same: “ Certificate ” shall mean the certificate of register for a tail-race : “ Permit” shall mean a form of license to use the sludge-channel granted to any person under former regulations. 3. No person except the holder of a permit shall use the sludge-channel unless subject to these regulations. 4. All owners of tail-races whose permits have expired, or shall hereafter expire, must, before they again obtain the right to use the sludge-channel, obtain a renewal of their certificates. Such renewal shall not be for more than one year at a time, and the renewed certificate shall be indorsed subject to these regulations : Provided that no renewal shall prevent the Government from at any time closing the sludge-channel if at any time it shall be deemed necessary to do so, or entitle any person to compensation on that account.

5. No application for or registration of any new tail-race, and no renewal of any tail-race, shall give any right to use the sludge-channel unless the written consent of the Manager shall be filed in the Warden’s Office. 6. No person using the sludge-channel shall be entitled to discharge any water therein other than natural drainage, except water supplied from the Government water-race, known as the Kumara waterrace.

7. For a length of 60 feet at either the upper or the lower end of every tail-race the fall shall not be greater than 4 feet in the chain, or 8 inches in every 11 feet; and the Manager may at any time require the grade to be adjusted accordingly at whichever end he may think necessary. 8. Any-share or interest in a tail-race may be transferred ; but no transfer shall be recognised unless registered in the Warden’s Office, and no transfer shall be registered without the written consent of the Manager : Provided that such consent shall only be withheld so long as either the transferor or transferee shall be indebted to the Government, either for water or the use of the sludge-channel. 9. The Manager shall have power to arrange the order of working amongst the parties using the sludge-channel, and to assign to each such hours for sluicing as he may deem to bo necessary for the avoidance of blocking in the sludge-chan-nel and for the safe working of the sludgechannel, water-races, and flumes. A day’s use of the sludge-channel shall mean a period of not more than four hours, but this period shall be subject to reduction whenever this shall be necessary, for the purpose of allowing every party connected with the sludge-channel to make use of the same. 10. The payment for the use of the sludge-channel by the registered owners of any tail-race shall be 10s per week for every person employed in any claim from which water and tailings are run into it. Such payment shall be made every four ■weeks at the office of the Manager, who may prohibit any party in arrears from using the sludge-channel until payment is made. 11. No party using the sludge-channel shall employ in connection therewith a greater number of men than that specified on their certificate, without first giving notice to the Manager of the number of men so to be employed; and payment for the use of the sludge-channel shall be made accordingly until notice shall have been given that the number of men has been reduced.

12. All persons using the sludge-chan-nel shall immediately stop sluicing into it when required so to do by the Manager or his deputy, either verbally or in writing, or by signal, and no person shall have any claim for compensation by reason of such interruption of work: Provided that, if the loss of time during working hours in any one day caused by notice from the Manager by reason of the blocking of the sludge-channel or any other cause shall exceed half an hour, at any one time allowance pro rata for such loss of time shall be made in the charge for water. 13. The Manager shall at all times have full access to any tail-race discharging into the sludge-channel, or any claim con° nected with such tail-race; and every person owning, occupying, or using such tail-race or claim shall, when required by the said Manager, afford him or his deputy every facility for obtaining such access, and for allowing inspection of his or their claim and tail-race and the working thereof. 14. The holders of tail-races shall be liable in damages for any injury to the sludge-channel by the neglect, carelessness, or unskilful working of any person employed in or about their claims or tailraces. 15. No protection of any claim or tail-