THE NO. 2 SLUDGE-CHANNEL REGULATIONS.

Kumara Times, Issue 3110, 21 October 1886, Page 4

THE NO. 2 SLUDGE-CHANNEL REGULATIONS.

Regulations for tbn Control and Management of the Main Tail-Race, commonly called flu; “ Kumara SludgoCliannel No. 2,” and Registered as Main Tail-race No. 4G270, dated Bth January 188(5; 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.— J. From the number of registered holders (hereinafter called the Trustees) of the Main 'rail-race (hereinafter called I lie Channel) shall bo elected, in manner hereinafter provided, a Committee (hereinafter called the Committee), consisting of live persons, including a chairman, secretary, and treasurer ; but tbo 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 i committee and officers shall be elected ! from amongst the trustees, the same per- 1 sons being eligible for re-election ; and tlie accounts and balance-sheet of the treasurer shall be submitted to the mooting, and all other necessary businesstransacted. 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 thei 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 resointioni of the Trustees, but may bo called at any time by authority of the chairman, uporn 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 ai 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 1 : 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 foes 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 aclaim connected with the channel ; amU four hours’ use of the channel for sluicing; shall be considered to bo equivalent to* one day. The rate of fees payable shall. not be altered, except upon a resolution 1 , passed at an annual or extraordinary meeting of the Trustees. 3. No tail-race not duly registered under the laws relating to gold-mining; fur 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. !). Tlie grade of the boxes in any tailrace connected with the channel shall not exceed 3 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 30 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 oilending against this regulation shall pay for every such offence a lino 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 vendor, assignor, or transferror of nidi share or interest shall have been paid. 14. Applications to sluice into the chainlet shall be dealt with and decided by a meeting of the Trustees ; but the number of tail-races to be connected with I ’r * ■ 1 1 a 111I*■1 *■ [ shall not cxeei'd t welve, unless : i t v.o-lhicdr of the whole number of Trustees shall lie iu favour of the increase. Ann no such increase shall in any case be m .do unless notice of the intention to propose such increase shall have been giwu to each of the Trustees fourteen clear days before (lie day of meeting. 15. So long as I lie number of tail-races eomieet'n : ;; -aill l the channel shall not exceed twelve, nothing iu these regulations shah hinder the Warden, if ho shall be of opinion that any application to sluice into the channel has been unreasonably refused by the Trustees from granting to f.llO a: 1 d mo. :l ,v si civil right to a tail-race ; end ’>*i- * v'l. comer me privilege or .. icing attii) the channel, .subject, However, iu all other respects to these regulations.