GOLDFIELDS ACTS AMENDMENT

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 250, 14 November 1872, Page 8

GOLDFIELDS ACTS AMENDMENT

The following Act, to abend "The Goldfields Act, 1866," and the snbsequent Acts amending thS same, was passed last session of the General Assembly :—: — In any case brought before any Warden under the provisions of the said Acts, unless assessors shall be summoned and act in any case, the Warden alone shall determine all questions, as well of fact as of law ; and any judgment given, or order or decree made by. him, shall be the judgment of the Court.

Where assessors shall have been summoned and shall act on the hearing of any case in a Wai-den's Court, such assessors shall sit apart from the Warden, in like manner as a jury would in an action in the Supreme Court, and the judgment given, or the order or decree made by the Court, shall be given or made by the Warden and not less than two of such assessors.

Whenever any person shall appeal from the decision of a Warden's Court, if such appeal shall be made . with respect to, or ownership of a claim or any other property held under the said . Acts, it shall be lawful for such person to make application to the Warden that the working of such claim, or the user of such property, in respect of which such appeal shall have been lodged shall be suspended until the appeal shall have been heard and determined.

On the application of the party appealing, the? Warden shall fix a day time and place for the hearing of such application, of which day time and place, noti"e shall be given to the other party to tbe proceedings in such appeal, and on such day time and place the parties shall attend and proceed with such application. On the hearing of any such application the Warden may either whollj suspend the working of such claim or, the user of such property, or may permit the same to be carried on or used by tire person or peraonn in possession thereof, on hisr or her giving security to the satisfaction of the Warden, that he or they jwill account for the proproceeds of claim, or the profits of the property when the appeal shall have been determined, or on such other terms as the Warden may consider just and equitable, and calculated to prevent undue injury to such claim or property, or any right or interest connected therewith.

We have received a copy of i"Spans»les and Sawdaat," a collection of colonisations, published by Mr, R. P. Whitworth; a gentleman formerly resident in Dunedin. This' book acquired great popularity iv Yictqria, I&QQ copies ha." b<>' disuosed of. . . -■ : ' • . - l

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