THE NO. 2 SLUDGE-CHANNEL REGULATIONS.

Kumara Times, Issue 3102, 12 October 1886, Page 4

THE NO. 2 SLUDGE-CHANNEL REGULATIONS.

Rkoulatiox.s for the Control and Management of the Main Tail-Race, commonly called the " Kiimara SludgeChannel No. 2," and Registered as Main Tail-race No. 4G270, dated Bth January 1880 ; and Tek.us and Coxunroxs 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 he elected, in manner hereinafter provided, a Committee (hereinafter called the Committee), consisting of live pci solid, 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, ami 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 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. G. 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 for sluicing shall be 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 llie 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 to these regulations. % '.). The grade of the 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 witii ihe 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 it) feet from its junction with the channel. 11. \\ heuever notice is given of ihe channel being blocked, all parties shall immediately block their boxes. Any party oUbnding against this regulation shall pay for every such ofleuce a tine of such amount as the Committee may impo.se, but not exceeding £5. 12. The Committee shall have power to slop 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 taii-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 ve.i-i.n-, assignor, or transferror of Midi share o* interest shall have been paid. 14. Applications to sluice into the eh,.unci .shall be dealt with and decided by a muetlug of the Trustees ; but the number of (ail-rao s to bo connected with tie.; e:, ,:r:e; ;,i : .-i!i not exceed twelve, unless at b ...o v.vo-i ii rds oi tiio whole number of V.-i. , -.-. ..';a.: .;:• o; favour of i.h j increase. A-.. .;■• .ei;.-.! m.'i'eaou sliah .1: any case be )".'!.; a:i :.-.-■■-. .. ;:,-j of the intention to iu'oj.ose .:■!(.:!' : 'i. ■!•.•;•••■: shall ha'-e bo." given '.o cacb oi' :.''u; Trii.ilro-s louri-jjj) tic i: '-'..;.'.■ bi.vi.-re he li.ay ol 'Meotl'.!". .'.'>. So lov.g as ' so. number of tail-race:; ct I'-e-cibi'.; v.a'.'i a:s channel shall not exei...-. i\\ ..-.'■, .. :.ot!.it.g in thesj regulation? shall l'.h"'or the Vdiruen, if he shall be of opinion tu b. any application to sluice into the ehau-'ol b:\sbcon 'inreasonably refused !>•• -he T-;p';-s f-om granting to the a; e ..; ;.. . , ~■..,; r: ; ; ; a J . a tab- "aee : ol . ..-. ,; :) ..lei „i.e liialh,.,;, oU-ijCCI, howev ..', in ad ot-iief respects to. these reg'tiil'viUUu.