THE NO. 2 SLUDGE-CHANNEL REGULATIONS.

Kumara Times, Issue 3095, 4 October 1886, Page 4

THE NO. 2 SLUDGE-CHANNEL REGULATIONS.

Reouiations for the Control and Management of the Main Tail-Race, commonly called the “Kumara SludgeCliannel Ko, 2,” and Registered as Main Tail-race No. 40270, dated Bth January 1880 ; and Teems 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 tlie Main Tail-race (hereinafter called i,he 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 bo filled up by the Trustees. o. 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 80th of Juno in oach.year. 4. Meetings of the Trustees and of the Committee shall lw 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 ns a deliberate vote. G. The Trustees shall hoop an account at some bank, which shall bo 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 for sluicing shall bo considered to be equivalent to one day. The rate of fees payable shall not be altered, except upon a resolution passed at an animal or extraordinary meeting 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 lo these regulations. U. The grade of the boxes in any tailr.";cc unireiv d with the channel shall not iv.-eh II inches in every 12 feet; but exir.t fall may lie allowed for a distance of 50 feet below a jump-up. .10. No tail-race shall be connected with tlie channel until the angle of eidr.niee and the timbering of the tailrace have been approved by the Committee. And no timber shall be removed from any taii-raee within a distance of at least 10 feet from its junction with the channel. 11. Whenever notice is given of the channel being blocked, all parties shall immediately block their boxes. Any party olkuding against tins regulation shall pay for every such ollence a fine of such amount as the Committee may impose, but not exceeding £5. 12. Tlie Committee shall have power in " top any part}’ from sluicing into tlie eiianiici it all tecs due are nut paid monthly. Id. No purchaser, assignee, or transferee of any share or interest in any claim or tail-race, shall acquire thereby any right to use the channel until all aireas of moneys due from the party hoi'.iiig such claim or tail-race, or from iue vendor, assignor, or transferror of noli sii.are or interest shall have been paid. T'c. ■ ppbeatioiis to sluice into the e' : 11 :i;; shall be dealt with and decided o;. meeting of the 'Trustees ; but the number of i.iil-rac'-s to be connected with i he eh: uuel shall not exceed twelve, unless ;.m. I wo-i hirds of the whole number of ! i’u.,c i.’.s .dial! o,j m favour of the increase. And it ■ .-ach :uci'ease shall ill any case be in.m, urn; .i nunc,' of the intention to | Vo, h IS-. r', ■ icl'-a e shall liaVO 1)0011 g:v m I.- e;v i .a ihe i’rusiees fourteen char daw. i■ chore tlu ; day of meeting. to. - ... hog the number of tin (-races I. m euanum shall Hot exceed iweive, nothing in these regulations s ll a;i limder tin; Warden, if he shall bo of opinion that any application to sluice into tie chained lias been unreasonably refused ever, in all other rer;iects co those regupW'U,,