MINING REGULATIONS UNDER "THE MINES ACT, 1877."

Kumara Times, Issue 2599, 5 January 1885, 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 appointed by him. Notices of all prospecting claims granted, with full particulars of locality, yield 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 granc a prospecting claim lor any new discovery at a less distance than two miles from any previovsly 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 is 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, grant a prospecting claim to the actual discoverer of new £old workings conjointly v. ith porsoi.s who have assisted them in prospecting either with contributions or otherwise, or with other persons who may he mmiivited liy tho actual discovers, although the said persons may not have been on the ground prior to the granting thereof. The Warden may, upon the application of any persons forming a partv of not lo:-s than four, grant protection for sot more than three m nths for a prospecting arai " at a distance of not u-ss than two miles from any existing voiking;; in alluvial ground, or in the uiso of quartz workings of not less than hilf a mile from any existing quartz workings : Provided in no case shall any such prospecting area be granted ""■ithiii half a mile of any other such iii-nspeetiiig area. Provided further *hai such protection .shall only continue iu force until gold is struck, in which wi.se the discovery .shall be reported, rr nr.tiJ the holders are required by tho Warden to mark a prospecting claim, m either of which cases a prospecting fiiain! shall lie marked and applied for as provided in Regulation 11. and V., and protection shall therupon cease as to the remainder oi such prospecting area.

ft nhiill he lawful for the Warden to jgiicu iVmn rime to time the protection for :i prosjifcting «rea. Provided fch t «iich c -if-.rf.d protection shall not \ o gM'nf.('ii t:;i «ior *han three months .:t auy time