THE NO. 3 SLUDGE-CHANNEL REGULATIONS.

Kumara Times, Issue 3105, 15 October 1886, Page 4

THE NO. 3 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. 4G270, dated Bth January 1886 ; 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 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 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, and all other necessary business transacted. All casual vacancies in the Committee shall be lilled 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 loth 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, upom giving reasonable notice to the members. 5. At any meeting of the Trustees, fivtJ 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. The Trustees shall keep an accountat 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 mau working in » claim connected with the channel ; audi four hours' use of the chaunel 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 the 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 0 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 tlio channel if all fees due are not paid monthly. 13. No purchaser, assignee, or transferee of any share or interest in any claim or taiJ-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 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 lb'.. '.; : ,'ii;-';ei .Ji.iil not exceed twelve, unless ■,■>■■ t'.v - ..i.irii.; -A the whole number of '.' i - ■■.. .■ ... ;-e m-. r'.u\/uL (u the increase. .'v:ii! im oUJI njuvaoe .-,!i.-ili in any cas..; bi; m.i-L: :■.:■'.'. .-,.s i;".hje of the intention to propose iiueii \..:v; <o sh:;ll have been g' : \cii t: tv..-h or ';h. i'n;:,.evH fourtee;; civ.-..i,.- «.! ;y-> l>e!"iv '' .: day of meeting. 1.1. "Jo 'n/Ug u.D i-iid li.nnber of tail-racci •;o:i;ie«;'.:ig w .vh the cliaimoi dhall not cxeeed twjive, nothing in these regulations shall 1) ; ;! !.,T u e Vv'i.rdeii, if he shall be of opinion t,;a' a.iy application to sluice into the 'jh;tt]'!';l lias bcu un.'t.tsoi.ably refused by r.h; Troste r; ?r<yu « ••"ling to the appl'e-r t a. light to :* idl-rac: ; ;" ■'<-:<'': vi'jr 1 :'; ■ i.a". c (lifer the privilege oi ah.u'jing ;ii. v .iie iiubjeet, h.,/,'ever. in all other aspects'to these regn-