THE NO. 3 SLUDGE-OHANNEL REGULATION.

Kumara Times, Issue 3103, 13 October 1886, Page 4

THE NO. 3 SLUDGE-OHANNEL REGULATION.

Reul’Ealtoxs for tbe Control ami Management, of the Main Tail-Race, commonly c: lh il the “ Kmnara SludgeChannel .No. C,ami Registered as Alain Tail-race No. 40270, dated Btli January 1880 ; 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 Main Tail-race (hereinafter called the Channel) shall be elected, in manner hereinafter provided, a Committee (hereinafter called the Committee), consisting of live poisons, including a chairman, secretary, and treasurer ; but the offices of secretary and treasurer may be bold 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 bo elected from amongst the trustees, the same persons being eligible for re-election ; and t!m 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 tilled up by the Trustees. A. The hrst annual meeting shall be held at. a time and place to ho notified by the Warden ; and subsequent annual meetings shall ho called by the chairman, on some date between the 15th and the llUth of dune in each year. 4. .Meetings of the Trustees and of the Commit u-e shall he held at such times as shall have been determined by resolution of i.tie fruMees, out. 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, live per.-ou.-, 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. (I. The Trustees shall keep an account at some bank, which shall bo styled “The No. 2 oludge-channcl Account,” and proper books of account shall be regularly kept and audited, and a balancesheet submitted' to the annual meeting. All lees 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 ton shillings per week for each man working in a cl i’in. vnneeved with the channel ; and four in mi's' use of the channel for sluicing shall lu: considered It) be equivalent to one day. The rate of fees payable shall viol be altered, except upon ti resolution passed ai an annual or extraordinary me "ting <■'' ike Trustees. ■ liil-raee nut duly registered nn ier the laws relating to gold-mining for the time being shad be connected with the channel for the purpose of sluicing th ivin. 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. H. The grade of the boxes in any tailrace connected with the channel shall not exceed H inches in every 12 feet; but extra fail may be allowed for a distance of 50 leet below a jump-up. T), No tail-race shall be connected wit it the channel until the angle of entrance and the timbering of the tailrace have been approved by the Contm.itee. And no timber shall be removed froai any lad-race within a distance of at least Lb feet from its junction with the cisannel. 11. Whenever notice is given of the. channel la. ng blocked, all parties shall immudiaody block their boxes. Any ’party "A u ling against, this regulation Saab py b.r e\,.ry such olleuce a lino of such amount as the Committee may 1 i,it not exceeding £5. 12. 'ihie Committee shall have power ei..,op any party from sluicing into the cliaoiici i; ail fees due are not paid oe mtaiy. Id. A (i purchaser, assignee, or transf m’ any share or interest in any ex .a; or mi 1-ii.cc, shall acquire thereby rr , i:.,;'. ,’j u.-e tiie channel until all arrears of moneys due from the party aoio,,ng :-neii claim or tail-race, or from Am \o;: Ao;assignor, or transferror of x !i or interest shall have been ; A■' • A i(CCS to SlUl'cC illto tllC '■ xx - .k be dealt wit'u and decided ■ .. oe ; nr of the Trustees ; but the n’"i‘o, ■ ei : ~1-i m.o to be connected with - 1 . x A did: no, exceed twelve, unless m ■’ 1 1 ■ e whide number of ■ • ■’ d ■• i i f.ivoiir ~f , lie increase. . id • m •• ;n any uaso no x; , xx'r. ;. ■ i,f i in: intention to ■ ■ x . •:••• i-e .lu.!! have been x: me • . . a"; , f :xe A i'll Se m fourteen •-: . > • • day of meeting. i. ■ A . as . -;.e number <4 tail-races .. 1 ehixitxi s'l ill not e.v----t . , . o -og ;n these regulations s . i ■■ ix V. ,o- n, it he shall oe ot 1 - i.x.ii x. .a m y i > e.-itioii to sluice into i mei im 'Am dx-x; •.■nr ■‘■.so'.vibly refused by me Tf"et.'-s from * granting to the