MINING REGULATIONS UNDER "THE MINES ACT, 1877."

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume V, Issue 229, 4 July 1885, Page 4

MINING REGULATIONS UNDER "THE MINES ACT, 1877."

Any person discovering new gold working, and being desirous of obtaining an increased area thereon shall mark off a prospecting claim, as provided in Regulation 11, and shall immediately report snch discovery with lull particulars to the Warden, and the ground s© marked off shall be protected until the Warden shall kave finally refused or granted the claim ; but the Warden may, if he think fit, refrain from granting or refusing such claim until the ground shall have been visited by himself or by anyone appointed by him. Notices of all prospecting claims granted with lull particulars of locality, yield of gold, and description of workings, shall be posted by the Warden on the outside of his office for public information. It shall not be lawful for the Warden to grant a prospecting claim for any new discovery at a less distance than two miles from any previously existing workings in alluvial ground, nor V grant a prospecting claim for any new Jiscovery of a quarts reef at a less distance than half a mile trorn any previously existing quartz workings. Ivery 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 olaim must, unless by special permission of the Warden, be fully occupied within seven days from the date of grant. The Warden may, if he think At, grant a prospecting claim to the actual discoverer •f new gold workings conjointly with persons who have assisted them in prospecting either with contributions or otherwise, or with other persons who may be nominated by the actual discoverers, although the said person* may not have been on the ground prior to the granting thereof. The Warden may, upon the application of any persons ferming a party of not Uss than four, grant protection for not more than three months for a prospecting area at a distance ot not less than two miles from any existing workings in alluvial •.♦ground, or in the case of quartz working* ,4>f not less than half a mile from any i-existing quartz workings Provided in no , case shall any such prospecting area, be .granted within hall a mile of any other such prospecting area. Provided'further i that such protection shall only continue iitfL force until gold is struck, in which case 'the discovery shall be reported, or until sthe holders are required by the Warden to imark a prospecting claim, in either of \which cases a prosj acting claim shall he marked and applied for as provided in •Regulation IT, and V., and. protection shall thereupon cease as to the remainder ,<?f such prospecting area. It shall be lawful for the Warden to iieuew Ironi time to time the protection for a prospecting area. Prrvided that such renewed protection shall not be gianted for more titan three months to any time.