MINING REGULATIONS UNDER "THE MINES ACT, 1877."

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume V, Issue 213, 14 March 1885, Page 4

MINING REGULATIONS UNDER "THE MINES ACT, 1877."

Any person discovering new gold working, and being desirous of obtaining an inereased area thereon shall mark off a prospecting claim, as provided in Regulation 11, and shall report such tkiscovery with full particulars to the "Warden, and the ground so marked off ehall be protected until the Warden shall have finally refused or granted the claim ; but the Warden may, if he think fit, refrain from granting or refusing such elaim until the ground shall have bean ▼isited by himself or by anyone appointed by him. Notices of all prospecting claims granted with full particulars of 'ocality, yield of fold, and description of workings, shall be posted by the Warden 011 the outside oi his office for public in ormation. It shall not be lawful for the Warden to grant a prospecting claim for any n<*w discovery at a les* distance than two miles from any previously existing workings in alluvial ground, nor +c grant a prospecting claim for any new .liscovery of a quart! reef at a less distance than half a mile Irom any previously existing quarts workings. lyery prospecting claim shall, after being marked, be held by one man remaining on the ground during working hours until the application is dealt with and, if granted, the claim must, unless by epeeial permission of the Warden, be fully oecupied within seven days from the date of grant. The Warden may, if he think fit, grant a prospecting claim to the actual discoverer of new gold workings conjointly with persons who have assisted them in prospecting either with eontributions or otherwise, or with other persons who may be nominated by the actual discoverers, Although the said persons may not have been on the ground prior to the granting thereof. The Warden may, upon the application of any persons forming a party of not less Ilia* four, grant protection for not more than three months for a prospecting area at a distance ol not less than two miles from any existing workings in alluvial ground, or in the case of quartz workings of not less than half a mile from any existing quarts workings ; Provided in no case shall any such prospecting area be granted within halt a mile of any other sueh prospecting area. Provided further that such protection shall only continue in force until gold is struck, in which case the discovery shall be reported, or until the holders are required by the Warden to mark a prospecting claim, in either of which cases a prosj. acting claim shall be marked and applied for as provide:! in Regulation 11. and V., and protection ehall thereupon cease as to the remainder •f such prospecting area. It shall be lawlul for the Warden to renew from time to time the protection for a prospecting area. Prrvided that luch renewed protection shall not be granted for more than three months to any time.