MINING REGULATIONS UNDER "THE MINES ACT, 1877."

Kumara Times, Issue 2800, 11 September 1885, Page 4

MINING REGULATIONS UNDER "THE MINES ACT, 1877."

Any person discovering new gold working, and being desirous of obtainin * 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 of! 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 th e ground shal 1 have been visited by himself or by anyone appointed by him. Notices o£ 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 bo lawful for the Warden to granc a prospecting claim lor any new discovery at a less distance than two miles from any previously existing workings in alluvial ground, nor to imint 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 uutil 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 elate of grant. The Warden may, if he think fit, want a prospecting claim to the actual discoverer of new gold workings con•tointly --a itli persons who have assisted •vhoni in prospecting either with contributions or otherwise, or with other persons who may he nominated by the actual discoveiers, although the said persons may not have been on the ground prior to the granting thereof. The Warden may, upon the applica:ion of any persons forming a party of not less than four, grant protection for --,ot moro than three m nths for a prospecting area " at a distance of not less than two miles from any existing workings in alluvial ground, or in the case of quartz workings of not less than }.>alf a mile from any existing quartz workings : Provided in no case shall any such prospecting area be granted within half a mile of any other such prospecting area. Provided further that such protection shall only continue in force until gold is struck, in which vase the discovery shall be reported, jr ur-til the holders are required by the Warden to mark a prospecting claim, in either of which cases a prospecting nlaim shall be marked and applied for as provided in Regulation 11. and V., and protection shall therupon cease as to rhe remainder ot such prospecting area. it- ahall be lawful for the Warden to , ~-v, from time to time the protection i.• i prospecting area. Provided tli t .v.zl: r ;,:-:rr-.d protection shall riot \«- i, •/•'«-ii tui i-iOi" -NH.il three months .it &uy time