THE NO. 2 SLUDGE CHANNEL REGULATIONS.

Kumara Times, Issue 3093, 1 October 1886, Page 4

THE NO. 2 SLUDGE CHANNEL REGULATIONS.

Regulations for the Control and Management of the Alain Tail-Race, commonly called the. " Kumara SludgeChannel No. 2," and Registered as Main Tail-race No. 4G270, dated Bth

January 188 G ; and Tek.ms 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 Minos 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 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 failed up by the Trustees.

3. The iirst 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.

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 juul 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 shilliujjs per week for each man working in a claim connected with the channel ; and four hours' use of the channel fen - sluicing shall be considered to be equivalent to cine day. The rate of fees payable shall not l>o altered, except upon a resolution passed at an annual or extraordinary meeting of the Trustees. 8. >'o tail-race not duly registered under Hie 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 chaiiman a written permit to use the channel by means of such tail-race, subject to these regulations. '.I. The grade of the boxes in any tail-

;•■ •:■■ connected with the channel shall not e.\e--ed '.) inches in every 12 foot; but vXi:':i fail may lie allowed for a distance <>f .>0 feet below a jump-up.

10. No tail-race .shiill be connected wiili the channel until the angle of ■ :■ '- ii»-- and die timbering of the tailr.. • nave 'been approved by the Comin.liee. And no timber shall be removed i'rciin any taii-race within a distance of at le.irit. Jd uet from its junction with the channel.

ij.. W iieiiever notice is given of the channel being blocked, all parties shall immediately block their boxes. Any party uU'eiiding against this regulation siiall pay for every such oll'uuce a line of such amount as the Committee may impose, out not exceeding £o. .12. Tne Committee- shall have power to siup any party from sluicing into the channel if ail ices due are not paid monthly.

10. No purchaser, assignee, or transferee of any share or interest in any ci.iim or tail-race, shall acquire thereby any io use the channel until all aire, rs of moneys due from the party hoimiiL; such claim or tail-race, or from tlie veii'iiir, assignor, or transferror of ;-iii-ti hii,ire or interest shall have been paid.

14. Applications to sluice into the e;;:.imoi .-diall be dealt with and decided by a meeting of the Trustees ; but the number of i.;i!-i-;tc s to be connected with tin' ciiMKie, ~:i .il no:, exceed twelve, unless ' ' ■:..'. i \\n■] ijird.; of'ilie whole number of ': ''! ~.i ■ >.-- slian il'; in favour of the increase. .'•n • ii ' .-.n...ii :ii'.:!'e;i:v; shall iu any case be ci.i.;.: ..ii"i: ; ip.tii'' of iJie intention to ;'!-o;vis • • ~•. -..,- ; •a---.' .•ili.11; have l.ieeit ." ' ■ .', . .r' . !;.; i'l'lls! eOS fourteen ■-.: ;• • !•..;;..-, 'j_\<.:'L' i,ni ilay of meeting. '.'■. ' '■'■<:: ■■ ■■ ■ '■■:• n-.'.nibi.'i. 1 of tail-race.? c'-i.'i. 1 .'. ..:r.-« , 11 ;.;ih;l; ;■! these regulations ;ii .1 I;..; ':•■:.i :.'.■.!■■ \ ,'ardei), if he shall be of 00;.;i..i: r.aat any application to sluice into til-.- ':!ia:inel ha> been unreasonably refused • . a •'- ':i\' . >-.;.(\i Lo „ ti.il-i' tee ; CVe.', 11l .ill ol.lci' .'.j.jpCCi/i 10 tliOhe i'C^U-