AMENDED RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE OTAGO GOLDFIELDS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume II, Issue 98, 6 April 1864, Page 6

AMENDED RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE OTAGO GOLDFIELDS.

11. Regulations Relating to Claims. Section 1 of the "Regulations relating to Claims" is hereby cancelled, and the following is substituted in lieu thereof: — 1. Classification of claims.—Ordinary claims shall mean alluvial claims worked without the aid of appliances for drainage.—Wet claims shall mean alluvial claims in flooded ground, which cannot be wrought without the aid of appliances for drainage.—Creek and river claims shall mean claims in the beds of creeks or rivers, the course whereof may have been, or shall be wholly diverted for the purpose of mining therein.—River beach claims shall mean claims situated between high water mark and low water mark on the beaches of rivers.—Quartz claims shall mean claims in quartz reefs or lodes. Alteration of Section 3.—Section 3, relating to the number of claims in a block, is hereby cancelled, and the following is substituted in lieu thereof The maximum number of claims that may be occupied in one block by any party of miners shall- be as follows:—1. In ordinary claims, four single«claims ; - 2. In wet claims, six single claims; 3. In creek or river claims, six ■ingle claims 4. In river beach four

single claims; 5. In quartz claims, four single claims. 10. Form of Claims.—Alluvial claims may be of any form, provided that no block claim shall exceed in length twice the breadth thereof. 2a. Size of Claims-—River beach claims shall not exceed 30 feet in length along the course of the river, with a frontage to low water mark, by a width bounded by high water mark: Provided that when any beach, or portion of a beach, shall exceed 50 feet in width, the warden may, upon application being made to that effect, authorise the holding and working of any such excess by persons other than the holders of the frontage claims. Sluice and Machine Claims.—The Rule relating to sluice and machine claims is cancelled, and section 7 of Regulation XIV is substituted iu lieu thereof. IV. Water Rights and Races. Section 2 of the Regulations relating to water rights and races is hereby cancelled, and the following substituted in lieu thereof: — 2. Races already constructed.—Races constructed prior to the proclamation of any goldfield, or of these Rules and Regulations, must be registered with the warden, as provided in sec. 1. 10a. Insufficient Supply of Water.—When the supply of water from any creek or stream shall be insufficient for the use of all the holders of water rights thereon, it shall be lawful for the warden, upon adequate cause being shown, to reduce the quantity which each of them, the said holders, shall be entitled to draw therefrom, and to regulate the time and mode in which such water may be used. VIII. Protection. 2a. Limitation of Protection. —Protection shall not in any case be granted for a longer period than one month ; but such protection may from time to time be renewed by ihe warden for not more than fourteen days at any one time; and every such renewal shall bo endorsed on the back of the certificate, and recorded in the registration book. 5. Protection to River Beach Claims.—River beach claims that have been occupied and wrought for not less than one month shall be deemed to be protected whilst flooded by the rising of the river: Provided that if such claims are suffered to remain unworked for a period of twenty-four hours during which ten (10) feet or more in width, measured from high water mark, shall remain uncovered by water, they shall be deemed to be forfeited IX. Registration. Sections 1, 2, 3 and 3a, of the Regulations relating to registration are hereby cancelled, and the following are substituted in lieu thereof 1. Permissive Registration.—All claims, the transfer or assignment of claims and rights, and mining partnerships may be registered with the warden. 2. Claims and Rights that must be Registered.— Extended claims, amalgamated claims, quartz claims, prospecting claims, creek and river claims, water rights and races, dams and puddling machines must be registered with the warden. 3. Registration Fees.—Except when it is otherwise expressly provided, the fee payable in respect of the several registrations mentioned in these Regulations, shall be two shillings and sixpence, and such fee shall include payment for copies of notices, but not for any survey. X. Licenses. 5. Sites to be Marked by Pegs.—Occupants of sites for business purposes shall place and maintain at each frontage of such site, a peg not less than two inches square, and standing at least one foot above the surface. 6. Space to be left between Buildings.—A space of four feet should at all times be left unoccupied between sites occupied for business purposes. 7. Registration of Sites.—Business sites may be registered with the warden for ten days, whilst the holder is engaged in preparing for the occupancy thereof and the fee for such registration shall be five shillings ; such registration may be renewed by the warden for an additional period of ten days, and every such renewal shall be endorsed on the certificate, and recorded in the registration book. 8. Occupancy of Sites.—Business sites can only be heldoroccupied by holders of business licenses, and no site can be held unoccupied for more than twenty-four hours, unless the same shall be registered as provided in section 7. 9. Information to the Public. —When any business site has been registered, the holder thereof shall post and maintain thereon a board not less than nine inches square, with the word " Registered," and the date and number of of such registration legibly painted or written thereon. 10. Transfer or Assignment of Licenses.—Business licenses may be transferred or assigned by the holder within the district for which it was originally granted: Provided that such transfer or assignment shall be registered with the warden ; and the fee for such registration shall be ten shillings. XI. General Regulations. 7a. Notices to be posted at the Warden's Offices —Copies of all notices given in conformity with these Regulations shall be posted by the warden at his office, and exhibited on the outside thereof during the currency of such notice: Provided that non-compliance with this rule shall not invalidate the proceedings in relation to any application. la. Throwing earth or tailings on claims.—No person shall throw or cause to be thrown upon any claim other than his own, any earth, stones, gravel, tailings, or any other substance whereby the proper and efficient working of such claim may be stopped or impeded. XIV. Extended Claims. 7. Sluicing Claims in worked and abandoned ground;— For sluicing-claims in worked and abandoned ground the warden may grant an extent of groona toot exceeding treble the ordinary area.