THE NO. 2 SLUDGE CHANNEL REGULATIONS.

Kumara Times, Issue 3084, 21 September 1886, Page 4

THE NO. 2 SLUDGE CHANNEL REGULATIONS.

I'Eon.AXiONs for the Control and Management of the Main Tail-Race, commonly called the “ Kinnara SludgeCliannel No. 2,” and Registered as Main Tail-race No. 4G270, dated Btli January 18SG ; 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 HI. 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 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 bo elected from amongst the trustees, the same persons being eligible for re-election ; and the accounts and balance-sheet of the treasurer shall bo submitted to the meeting, and all other necessary business transacted. All casual vacancies in the Committee shall be tilled up by the Trustees.

3. The first annual meeting shall be hold at a time and place to be notified by the Warden; and subsequent annual mootings shall bo called by the chairman, on sumo date between the 15th and the 30th of June in each year.

4. Meetings of the Trustees and of the Commit too 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 mooting of the Trustees, five persons, and at any mooting 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.

G. 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 shiliines per week for each man working in a claim coimucled 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 mu he altered, except upon a resolution passed at an annual or extraordinary meeting of the Trustees. 8. No tail-race not duly registered under I lie laws relating to gold-mining for die. lime being shall be connected with ■ ■'a mi. 1 for the purpose of sluicing :■ .mi;. And no tad-race whatever sa.ei (•,,.-pi as hereinafter provided) be so eon:; emu will; the channel until the holder.- .here u shall have obtained from iiio cli: ; a.uui a written permit to use the chann, 1 bp means of such tail-race, subject to ; he :e regulations. b. The grade of the boxes in any iailr.;e • e.aa.e;. d with the channel shall not e\c ro '.) inches in every .12 feet; but ■ x i fail may be allowed for a distance of OJ ~ el below a jump-up. 1 l No tad-race shall he connected t\..u too cuauuel until the angle of . . . ..'v. aia.t t.ie limbering of the tail- ’■ ■ hMc i)■ ■ n p;v,.\eh ay the Comm Urn • And n-. io ll ■ a r s!. d. he removed fro,a my iai -iMC ■ wnhin a distance of at ,h si lu la et from is jane,ion with the ch i.ncl. lx. Wh- n.vor imih-o is given of the channel being blocked, ail parties shall i.-.mediately block their boxes. Any .mm a. i.d-i.g against this regulation a..a.. p..y : r every such offence a line of Sadi amount us tiie Committee may imp ese, bait not exceeding ho. i-. h in l tjoiiouilieo shall have power ■ .o.y pmy from sluicing into the .i on.a o aii tees tauo are not paid >d. No purchaser, assignee, or trans'"a o; any share or interest in any claim ir.d-ra.-c, shall acquire thereby ra. agi;., o use the channel until all iiar rs . f moneys duo from the party . > ,ii:„;-.wa claim or tail-race, or from •• vcia mr, as.-iguor, or transferror of •s ■ re or .merest shall have been ;V e:,i ~.! r, io sluice into the ■ o-: a.,..i.1 in: with and decided :;u of ii'c Trustees; but the • ■••••. "i , ,1-1,,e s; i lie connected with o me,, -idim. ~veu I weive. unless . a . ;.v •.idi.hr lllllillrl of ■ • • -:rof i in- increase. m ■.. .-s fourteen . ■■■■ a of ..reting. - |-M ■ r .!> ■ .• .’ a Uieso regulations -h t rhe rspsp if lie siiall be of or in -,, . ~uy ; o/.ie.,tUoi» to sluice into r >-’ n ’,, !V s reel) unreasonably refused ■ ’ from granting to the