THE NO. 2 SLUDGE-CHANNEL REGULATIONS.

Kumara Times, Issue 3098, 7 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. 46270, dated Bth January 188 G; and Terms and Conditions for the Use of the said Main Tail-race, by Persons other than other the Holders, as pro- j vided by section 25 of Part 111. of j Appendix D to the Mines Act, 1877, viz.— 1. Prom the number of registered | holders (hereinafter called the Trustees) j of the Main Tail-race (hereinafter called ; the Channel) shall be elected, in manner ' hereinafter provided, a Committee (hereinafter called the Committee), consisting of five persons, including a chairman, secretary, and treasurer; but the offices ! of secretary and treasurer may be held by ' the same person. jj 2. There shall be an annual meeting, 'l at which the following persons shall be ■; entitled to be present, viz., the trustees ' and any other persons who shall have j obtained a right to lease of the channel. ' At each such annual meeting, a fresh ■ committee and officers shall be elected i from amongst the trustees, the same persons being eligible for re-election ; and :! the accounts and balance-sheet of the jj treasurer shall be submitted to the meet- jj ing, and all other necessary business || transacted. All casual vacancies in the jj Committee shall be filled up by the Trus- j! tees. jj 3. The first annual meeting shall be i; held at a time and place to be notified by jj tho Warden; and subsequent annual j meetings shall be called by the chairman, j 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. 6. Tho 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 meetingAll fees and moneys received shall be* paid to the said account at the bank. 7. The fee payable for the use of tbe channel shall be at the rate of ten shillings per week for each man working in ai claim connected with the channel; and! ! four hours' use of the channel for sluicing; shall be considered to be equivalent to' one clay. 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 time being shall be connected with, the channel for the purpose of sluicing i 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 channel by means of such tail-race, sub- , ject to these regulations. j 0. Tho grade of tho boxes in any tailrace connected with the channel shall not exceed {) inches in every 12 feet; but extra fall may be 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. 12. The Committee shall have power to stop any party from sluicing into the channel if all fees due are not paid monthly. 13. 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 arrears of moneys due from the party holding such claim or tail-race, or from the veii'lor, 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 the number of tail-races to be connected with t'ne channel shall not exceed twelve, unless at least two-thirds of t'ne whole number of Trustees shall be in favour of the increase. And no such increase shall in any case be made uniess notice of the intention to propose such increase shall have been gl'.Vii to .;aeh of the Trustees fourteen clear days before the day of meeting. 15. So i.'iig as the number ■•■'.' connecting .viti: tile channel ■■',->'■[ moo exceed twelve, nothing in these lobulations shall hinder tne Warden, if lie shall be of opinion that any application t.j sluice into the channel hay been unreasonably refused by tht Trustees from gracing to the applicant a registered right to a tail-race ; and such right shall confer t!.e ;av.llege of sluicing into the channel, subject, howover, in all other respects to these regulations.