THE NO. 2 SLUDGE-CHANNEL REGULATIONS.

Kumara Times, Issue 3094, 2 October 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. 4G270, dated Bth January 188 U ; and Teems and Conditions for the Use of the said Wain 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 JDommittee (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 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 J uno in each year. 4. Meetings of the Trustees and of the Committee shall he 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. 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 fur sluicing shall be considered to bo 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 i.ime being shall be connected with Hie 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. 9. The grade of the boxes in any tailrae ■ connected with the channel shall not e.Ne ■■ ■.;il 1) inches in every 12 feet; but im i ni may be allowed for a distance oi bd .d-efc below a jump-up.

10, N > tail-race shall be connected w : h iin; until tile angle of en'r nc.- and the tlmbcrb.g die tailrace have hi i n approved .jy me Committee. And n 1 tun'ter shall be removed fro a ,my lah-racc with'n a distance of at le j i.-ot 1 r*mi its junction with the c.i.miel.

11. Whenever notice is given of the channel being blocked, all parties shall imv .d: irely block their boxes. Any parry offending against this regulation snail pay for every such offence a fine of such amount as the Committee may »>Ut ilui, XO, 12. The Committee shall have power m .'lop any party from sluicing into the ea .line; if all ices duo are nut paid ImmUhy. ■id. No purchaser, assignee, or transferee of any share or interest in any claim or tail-race, shall acquire thereby right to use the channel until all a, ■ ■ rs of moneys due from the party ..o..i.ng s-ieti claim or tail-race, or from tae VBiiMar, assignor, or transferror of da'ii scare or interest shall have been - f. .;a iieation.i to sluice into the m ,-aa.ii in; dead with and decided a e i , 114 of die Trustees ; but the lIM ■ ■■.■ a 1 a 1,.. d-r c a .■> bj connected wiih 1 ■■ ■■aaa. aa slid: not o:vavd twelve, miles.-, . ■;. . ; . w n ,p. imiubor of >■• ■ ■ la. .aa,-a,ao .-mall ill any case be ”i of the intention to : • a • -:h ,!S have breti ov d • '■ ■' ‘1 ■ ru • ccs fourteen No ' a, ;.■ • number of tab-races c, 0., .iag!u these regulation; aii .U ho- ' '.VatPen, if he shall be of hi ion had ;■ to sluice into Tea ch:v>. ■•.*! >,s been .’.uveusonubly refused be ’ p -fain grunting to the or s.’ ouag nit .1 the cin.iiuel, subject, howev.tr, mad oil:or respects to these regu-