THE NO. 2 SLUDGE-CHANNEL REGULATIONS.

Kumara Times, Issue 3100, 9 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 Alain 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 the Main Tail-race (hereinafter called the Channel) shall bo elected, ill 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 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 bo elected from amongst the trustees, the same persons being eligible for re-tlectiun ; 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 Idled up by the Trustees. 8. The first annual meeting shall be hold 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 bOth of Juno in each year. 4. Meetings of the Trustees and of the Committee shall be held at such times as shall have been determined hy 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, live 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. (!. The Trustees shall keep an account at some bank, which shall bo styled “The No. 2 Sludge-channel Account,” and proper hooks 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 annual or extraordinary meeting of the Trustees. 8. No tail-race not duly registered under the 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 (exe .pt as hereinafler 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 tailrace connected with the channel shall not exceed 9 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 bo connected with the channel until the angle of entrance and the timbering of the tailrace have been approved by the Committee. And m> 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 oll'ending against this regulation shall pay fm 1 every such olleiiee a line of .such amount as the Committee may inqio.se, but nut exceeding £5. 12. The Committee shall have power to stop any party from sluicing into the channel if all fees due arc not paid monthly. 18. No purchaser, assignee, or transferee of any shave or interest in any chum 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 vendor, assignor, or transferror of :-neh share or interest shall have been paid. 11. 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 the cliainiel shall not exceed twelve, unless at liasi. I wo-t hinds of the whole number.of Trustees shall be to favour of the increase. And no snap meiva.se shall in any east; be made unless notice of the intention to propose sued increase shall have linen given to each of the Trustees fourteen clear days before the day of meeting. .15. So long as ihe number of tail-races connectii.g a nil tin; channel shall not exceed twelve, nothing in these regulations shall hinder the Garden, if lie shall be of opinion that any application to sluice into the channel has been unreasonably refused by r h T.-o-T >, from granting to the appli' 1 a • j.i a . r.;d .igin. to Ldl-r am ; of si ih-in;- iut ■ : lu. e! -.inch snbje. f, ; ■ over, in all other respects to th. se regulations.