MINING REGULATIONS UNDER "THE MINES ACT, 1877."

Kumara Times, Issue 2575, 5 December 1884, 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 immediately 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 shall have been visited by himself or by anyone appoiuted by him. Notices of all prospecting claims granted, with full particulars of locality, vield 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 for the Warden to grano a prospecting claim lor 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 quartz reef at a less dis. tance than half a mile from any previously existing quartz workings. Every prospecting claim shall, after being marked, be held by or 3 man remaining on the ground during working hours until the application ia 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 grant. The Warden may, if he think fit, i-rant a prospecting claim to the actual discoverer of now e.o!d workings conoir.tiy '.Mth persons » ho have assisted ■hem in prospecting either with contiifiiitioii- or oi.herv.-iHe, or with other per. ".'■■v,'.< '.-.'ho siirtv he ninun-ited hy the «.'.:!-.!i-.-.l distt.'vyu-rs, although the said uevsou:-, may not have heen on the sroiiiid prior to the granting thereof.

Tin: Warden may, upon the application of any persons forming a party of Dot Jess than four, grant protection for cu.'t more than three months for a prospecting area " at a distance of not U'ss than two miles from auy existing workings in alluvial ground, or in the case ofqum-tz workings of not less than :-alf a mile from any existing quartz workings : Provided in no cage shall ■<x\y such prospecting area he granted within halt' a mile of any other such prospecting area. Provided further 'hat such protection shall only continue in foiCG until gold is struck/in which i..*se the discovery shall be reported, .'r until the holders are required by the Warden to mark a prospecting claim, vn either of which cases a prospecting olaim shall he marked and applied, for as provided in Regulation 11. and V., and protection shall therupon cease as to •he remainder oi sucli prospecting area. It shall he lawful for the Warden to renew from time to time the protection for a prospecting area. • Provided th- t such renewed protection shall not >e granted for mor '"ban three months at any time