THE NO. 2 SLUDGE-CHANNEL REGULATIONS.

Kumara Times, Issue 3096, 5 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 Slain Tail-race No. 4G270, dated Bth January ISBG ; 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 Midn Tail-race (hereinafter called the Channel) shall be elected, in manner horeinaftor 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 bo 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 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 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 nno 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 bo 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. Tim Trustees shall keep an account at some hank, which shall bo styled “Thu 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 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 tile time being shall be connected with the channel for the purpose of sluicing therein. And no tail-race whatever shall (■ \e 'pt as horeinaftor provided) be so conn.;cied 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. 0. The grade of the boxes in any tailrace connected with the channel shall not exceed !) inches in every 12 feet; but extra fail may lie allowed for a distance of 50 feet below a jump-up. 10. No tail-race shall be connected with the channel until the angle of entrance and the timbering of the tailrace have been approved by the Committee. And no timber shall be removed from any tail-race 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 offending against this regulation shall pay for every such offence a fine of such amount as the Committee may impose, but not exceeding £5. ■ Vim Committee shall have power i.o ...op any parly from sluicing into the ci.-iimei li idi ices due are not paid umnihly. .13, hi 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 arrears of moneys duo from the party holding such claim or tail-race, or from the vendor, assignor, or transferror of such share or interest shall have been paid. 14. Applications to sluice into the channel shall be dealt with and decided by a meeting of the Trustees ; but tho number of tail-rao.s to be connected with the channel shall not exceed twelve, unless at leas' two-thirds of the whole number of Trust,a .shall be in favour of the increase. Aim in- .nidi increase shall in any case he made unless notice of the intention to propose sorb in.ava.se shall have been given to each ui luc Trustees fourteen clear days before i lie day of meeting. 10. So long as the number of tail-races connecting wdh tie channel shall not exceed Iwe.ve, noising m these regulations shad bonier the Warden, if he shall be of opinion that any application to sluice into the channel lias been unreasonably refused by tlie Trustees from granting to the applicant a registered right to a taii-iv.ee ; ■ u -' • ; ■ C .loeS pil.'ue.mj a. ~...a...ig mi. i ilij channel, snojeot, eve.', m .dl other respects to these regu- •. i 'j i Lv» ,