THE NO. 2 SLUDGE CHANNEL REGULATIONS.

Kumara Times, Issue 3071, 6 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 bo elected, in manner hereinafter provided, a Committee (hereinafter called the Committee), consisting of live persons, including a chairman, secretary, and treasurer ; but the offices of secretary and treasurer may bo held by the same person. 2. There shall bo 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 eai-U 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 loth and the 30th of J une in each year. 4. Meetings of the Trustees and of the Committee shall bo 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 foe 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 inei ting of the Trustees. 8. No tail-race not duly registered under the laws relating to gold-mining for the time being shall be connected with the channel for the purpose of sluicing therein. And no tail-race whatever shall (except as hereinafter provided) be so connected 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. 0. '['lie grade of the boxes in any tailrace connected with the channel shall not exceed ‘ D inches in every 12 feet; but exira iail may be allowed for a distance oi oU feet below a jump-up. 10. .nii tail-race shall be connected wish tlie channel until the angle of e:.'.■ in;,' and the limbering of the tailrace have been approved by the Coinm. And no umber shall be removed Horn any tail-race within a distance of at least 10 feet from its junction with the channel. !■ 'Ah ’.'"vcr notice is given of the ■ : ’ 1 i.mug iducked, ad parties shall n. i.eiy block their boxes. Any party oil. nding against this regulation shad [iay for every such offence a tine of such amount as the Committee may impose, but nut exceeding £5. 12. The Committee shall have power to si..p any party from sluicing into the cii iiiiiei if .ill fees due tire not paid im •<. l fi.y. Id. No purchaser, assignee, or transieree of any share or interest in any claim or tail-race, shall acquire thereby .any right to use the channel until all arrears of moneys due from the party holding such claim or tail-race, or from u.e vendor, assignor, or transferror of Mich share or interest shall have been paid. Tf. Applications to sluice into the ciiaillml shall be dealt with and decided by a meeting of the Trustees ; but the ouii.iici- Ot t.dl-races to be connected with the c.iaunel shall not exceed twelve, unless Ri ■ ■ two-thirds of the whole number of . . i*->i■ as .-.hail be in favour of the increase. A■■ .. < .mch inciva.se shall in any case be I ■ l i ..nm-s n.a ;cc. of the intention to .. . 1..■ i . .mail have bee.; g-cii :.■■■; ,t ,m. Tni;k ;s fourteen clear d r, ; : e...,.- iho day of meeting. id. -''•■■■ * mn.ler of tad-races ce i\v, iMlidng ill these regulations sh.-d holder the Warden, if he shall be of 0p.;., ei teat any application to sluice into to.- cban.mi lias been unreasonably refused by dm Tens:oe ; ; from granting to the app'ie mt a registered right to a tail-race ; ami such rigid shall confer the privilege oi sluicing into the channel, subject, however, in all other respects to these regulations.