THE NO. 2 SLUDGE CHANNEL REGULATIONS.

Kumara Times, Issue 3070, 4 September 1886, Page 4

THE NO. 2 SLUDGE CHANNEL REGULATIONS.

Regulations for the Control and Management of the Main Tail-Race, commonly called the “ Kumara SludgeChannel No. 2,” and Registered as Main Tail-race No. 46270, dated Bth January 1886; and Terms and Conditions for the Use of the said Main Tail-race, by Persons other than other the Holders, as provided by section 25 of Part 111, of Appendix D to the Mines Act, 1877, viz.— 1. From the number of registered holders (hereinafter called the Trustees) of the Main Tail-race (hereinafter called the Channel) shall be elected, in manner hereinafter provided, a Committee (hereinafter called the Committee), consisting of tive persons, including a chairman, secretary, and treasurer ; but the offices of secretary and treasurer may be held by the same person. 2. There shall be an annual meeting, at which the following persons shall be entitled to be present, viz., the trustees and any other persons who shall have obtained a right to lease of the channel. At each such annual meeting, a fresh committee and officers shall be elected from amongst the trustees, the same persons being eligible for re-election ; and the accounts and balance-sheet of the treasurer shall be submitted to the meeting, and all other necessary business transacted. All casual vacancies in the Committee shall be filled up by the Trustees. 3. The first annual meeting shall be held at a time and place to be notified by the Warden; and subsequent annual meetings shall be called by the chairman, on some date between the 15th and the 30th of June in each year’. 4. Meetings of the Trustees and of the Committee shall be held at such times as shall have been determined by resolution of the Trustees, but may be called at any time by authority of the chairman, upon giving reasonable notice to the members. 5. At any meeting of the Trustees, five persons, and at any meeting of the Committee, three persons, shall form a quorum; and the chairman, or acting acting chairman, shall have a casting as well as a deliberate vote. 6. The Trustees shall keep an account at some bank, which shall be styled “The No. 2 Sludge-channel Account,” and proper books of account shall be regularly kept and audited, and a balancesheet submitted to the annual meeting. All fees and moneys received shall be paid to the said account at the bank. 7. The fee payable for the use of the channel shall be at the rate of ten shillings per week for each man working in a claim connected with the channel ; and four hours’ use of the channel for sluicing shall be considered to be equivalent to one day. The rate of fees payable shall not be altered, except upon a resolution passed at an annual or extraordinary meeting of the Trustees. 8. No tail-race not duly registered under the laws relating to gold-mining fur the time being sii.ui lie connected with tii ■ ch .niKi lur tile purpose of sluicing ih.iein. And no tad-race whatever shaii (-xc. pi ..a hereinafter provided) be so commoted with the channel until the holders thereof shall have obtained from the chairman a written permit to use the channel by means of such tail-race, subject to these regulations. ‘■l. Tile grade of the boxes in any taili a ; ».jjnvcU'd wuii the channel shall not tv. >:■; niche., :u every 12 feet; but .i >■ U may he allowed for a distance ol •>■) n •a ociew u jump-up. -'b ud-i’ace slu.ii oe connected w; h the ch.uin A until the angle of eio i iic,- an i Ihe timbering of the tail- • ~ .a i■ 11 approved by the Com- . Aina no tuuoer shall be removed from any tail-race within a distance of at lea-,!, iii met from its junction with the channel. i-i. '»iu never notice is given of the. channel being blocked, all parties shall immediately block their boxes. Any party oUciiding against this regulation snail pay fur every such olfence a fine of seen amount as the Committee may impose, but not exceeding £5. 12. The Committee shall have power to stop any party from sluicing into the <-i: ;!!im it ad ices due are not paid hi. Lii-y. No purchaser, assignee, or traus■'iua oi any share or interest in any c!.am or tail-race, shall acquire thereby any right io use the channel until all uiue.rs i,i moneys due from the party lioiumg such chum or tail-race, or from the vomior, assignor, or transferror of u.. . share or interest shall have been I* ..pplicaiions to sluice into the u . .oim.-, s:iah he dealt with and decided ■■ * .no' o; the Trustees; but the '<! ~.ii to lie connected with • urn whole number of ' ■ •'avour in the increase. o,e shad in any ease be ■■■ . oi die liitehtuii! to : ".■ he - ■ U-'S id-ur ;; ‘ ' ■ ■■■"■ e : ;.e day of meeting. '. handier of lail-v.tco.. 1 " shame:; sutu! no.’. u, ol 1 i egiiiat iolis * V..:oe;i, ii he shah be of ■■■>>■ ... ! i.ppiio.it.iou to si nice into to- ■ha i a , ... . -.ureasonabiy refused ' i : 1 ; bom granting to the - to a tail-race ; 0 . . , 111 ait lAiiti’ ieopems i.O these rCgll-