PROPOSED RULES AND CONDITIONS FOR THE KUMARA SLUDGE-CHANNEL.

Kumara Times, Issue 2387, 23 April 1884, Page 3

PROPOSED RULES AND CONDITIONS FOR THE KUMARA SLUDGE-CHANNEL.

Notice is posted at the Court House that objections to the following newRules 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 All former regulations and conditions are hereby repealed, but this repeal shall not affect any rights acquired under the regulations and conditions so repealed. 2.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, a m ? 0, „ and ever y P art thereof : lail-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 rx, ge "^ annel 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-<•><•« the fall shall not be greater than 4 fv the chain, or 8 inches in every 11 feet ; and the Manager may at any time require the grade to be adjusted according, at whichever end he may think necessary. 8. Any share or interest in a tail-race may be transferred ; but no transfer ah.,.; 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 be 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, hut 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 v»nel shall immediately stop sluicing inr . r, when required so to do by the M-iii iu—his deputy, either verbally ..r in writ »., or by signal, and no person shali ■•,.,v" any claim for compensation by reason . such interruption of work : Provide ! r > if the loss of time during working a . . 6 in any one day caused by notice from t Manager by reason of the blocking ..r ~ sludge-channel or any other cause s , .. i exceed half an hour, at any one allowance pro rata for such Ws shall be made in the charge for », 13. The Manager shall at all - full access to any tail-race disuu... into the sludge-channel, or any claim connected with such tail-race ; and e\person owning, occupying, or usinir suJii tail-race or claim shall, when required b" the said Manager, afford him ~*• 'X deputy every facility for obtaining BllUt , access, and for allowing inspection of his or their claim and tail-race and the working thereof. If- . Tlie holders of tail-races shall be liable in damages for any iujnry to the sludge-channel by the neglect, carelessness, or uuskilf ul working of any person employed m or about their claims or tailraces. 15. No protection of any claisu or tall.