GOLD MINING DISTRICTS ACT 1873.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1310, 20 November 1880, Page 2

GOLD MINING DISTRICTS ACT 1873.

We publish the following for the information of those who are at present engaged in the work of prospecting for gold in the Te Aroha ranges, and believe that all bona fide discoverers of gold in a quartz reef and not the original prospectors only will be entitled to protection for their claims :—: —

Part XIII. Mining Outside Districts. It shall be lawful for the Governor to grant to any bona Jide discoverer of gold on Crown land, not being within any Gold Field or Gold mining District a lease of the said land or some part thereof for gold mining purposes, subject to the followiug terms and conditions :—: — (1.) Every such lease shall comprise so much land as shall be necessary in the opinion of the Governor for the efficient mining for gold thereon, having regard to the description of mining proposed to be carried on, but not exceeding double the quantity which might be held as a claim or licensed holding respectively in the nearest Gold Mining District constituted under this Act. (2.) The term to be granted in each lease shall be any number of years, at the option of the lessee, not exceeding twenty-one. (3.) The rent to be reserved shall be one pound per acre. (4.) Every lease shall contain clauses in the usual form introduced into mining leases — (ft.) For securing the payment of the rent. (b.) For enabling some person on the part of the lessor from time to time to enter and examine the mine. (r.) For securing the regular proper and efficient working of the mine. {(I.) For making void the lease on breach of the stipulations on the part; of the lessee therein contained. (c.) To enable the lessee to surrender the lease. Ib shall be lawful for the Governer to make regulations, if he thinks fib, as to the form time and manner of making applications for leases, and any other regulation he may think fit, in order to give effect to the foregoing provisions of part XIII. of this Act. All rent received under any leases granted shall bo deemed to be land revenue of the province within which the land is situated iv respect of which such rent is received. If the land leaded as aforesaid, shall at any time, thereafter, be included in any Gold Mining District proclaim uuder this Act, the warden theieof, either upon or without the application of the per.son then entitled to surh leas-e, should grant and issue a license for the same under this Act, in the name of the original lessee. On such license being arranted, the said lease shall therefore ipso facto be null and void, and the land shall thenceforth be held under the said license subject to the provisions of this Act, and all regulations made thereunder relating to the district in which suob land is situated. All deeds and documents executed and signed by the lessee, his executors, administrators, and assigns, subsequent to the date of the lease, but before the issue of the license, shall, for the purpose of completing titles of parties to such deeds and documents, have the same force and effect, so far as can be, in respect of the land therein included, as though such deeds and documents had been founded on the eaid license instead of the said lease. All rights, titles, and interests which may have been lawfully created after the date of the said lease, and before the granting of the license, and then subsisting, shall be deemed, so far as can be, to have been created under the said license, and shall be held and enjoyed accordingly.

Andbew Jackson's Epitaph on his Wife. — Here lie the remains of Mrs. Rachael Jackson, wife of President Jackson, who died December 22nd, 1828, aged 61. Her tace was fair, her person pleasing, her temper amiable, and her heart kind. She delighted in relieving the wants of her fellow-creatures, and cultivated that divine pleasure by the most liberal and unpretending methods. To the poor she was a benefactress ; to the rich she was an example ; to the wretched a comforter ; to the prosperous an ornament. Her pity went hand in hand with her benevolence ; and she thanked her Creator for being permitted to do good. A being so gentle and yet so virtuous, slander might wound, but could not dishonor. Even death, when ho tore her from the arms of her husband, could but transplant her to the bosom of her God.