THE NO. 2 SLUDGE CHANNEL REGULATIONS.

Kumara Times, Issue 3082, 18 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 live 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 bo 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 bOth of Juno 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.

0. Thu Trustees shall keep an account at some bank, which shall be styled “Tlie No. 2 kludge-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 for the lime 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. !>. Tim grade of the boxes in any tail-

i'.i.- : c >i>with the channel shall not exc.-ed It inches in every 12 feet; but rxn.i tail may be allowed for a distance of 50 feet below a jmup-up.

.10, No tail-race shall be connected with the channel until the angle of entrance ami the timbering of the tailrace have been approved by the Comm.u.jc. And no timber shall be removed Irom any tail-race within a distance of at best 10 feet from its junction with the channel.

.11. W henever notice is given of the channel being blocked, all parties shall immediately block their boxes. Any party oUi.-nding against this regulation semi pay tor every such offence a tine of such amount as the Committee may impose, but nut exceeding £5.

111. Ttie Committee shall have power to stop any party from sluicing into the cb nnei it all fees due are nut paid mo.iih: v.

■I-"- N<> purchaser, assignee, or transferee i.t any share or interest in any claim or tail-race, shrill acquire thereby auv right to use the channel until all airc.rs <.;■ moneys due from the party holding such claim or t;iil-r;ice, or from ' " vcmior, assignor, or transferror of a i.are nr interest shall have been gaiu. ] J . A|.j.hc;i,tioiis to sluice into the caaimcl sia-ii be dealt with and decided "> meeting or the Trustees ; but the! ca..inci- m lail-racrs to lie connected with ! i..c caauncl sh ill mu, exceed twelve, unless I !• .••••• 1 wo-tuirds of the whole number of ■ i; n ~,!iaii ie in favour of the increase. j ; oo vi-; :l mciv.a-nj shall in any ctise be • ■■ m ■■■•' -s n-Ci-c of t,lie intention to ] 1 a; lm. i--a.ie shall have been i ,-l o -i) i- IV-''. of : he I'ruslees fourteen j dear days V'iore i ho day of meeting. | he S-i long as tiie number of tail-races ; • ■ in-.'• :ng v, a,i i.hr channel shall not ex- ■ ee A i aiioi.iiing in these regulations soil; in icier the V» arilen, if he shall be of opinion that any application to sluice into the cliannel lias been unreasonably refused ; by the Trustees from granting to the | ; t r r' stci'ed nglit to a tail-race ; a., , :...eb ,!'.;iit .mail cmier the privilege oi sluicing ml., the c.n'.iiiiel, sulijcet, however, in all other respects to these regu- j [aliens. 1