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8. Permission to enter Claims. The Warden shall have power to authorise the entry of any surveyor or assessor into and upon any claim for the purpose of measuring the depth of any shaft, or the dip, direction, inclination, or length of any tunnel or drive. 9. Notices to contain full particulars. All notices tendered or posted in conformity with these Regulations must contain the name in full of each member of the party, together with date, number, and place of issue of his Miners' Eight. 10. Notices to le posted at Warden's Office. 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 noncompliance with this rule shall not invalidate the proceedings in relation to any application. 11. Warden to ha Judge of Ohjections, Sfc. The Warden shall in all cases be the sole judge of the validity of objections to the issue of any Certificate of Registration, and also of what is a " reasonable time" for the performance of any work when no fixed period i< provided by these Regulations. , 12. Certificate may he Cancelled. If any Certificate shall have been obtained by misrepresentation, or if any of the prescribed conditions have not been duly complied with, the A\rarden may, upon proof thereof, cancel such Certificate, or make such other order therein os may appear to be just or equitable. 13. Neglect of Warden's Orders. Any person who shall neglect or refuse to comply with any written notice or order of the Warden, duly served, and in conformity with these Regulation?, shall be deemed to be guilty ot a breach thereof, and' liable to the penalties imposed by the 53rd section of the " Gold Fields Act, 1862." 11. Survey in ahsence of a Mining Surveyor. Wherever it is required by these Regulations that a survey should be made, if there be no Mining Surveyor within the district, the Warden may authorise and appoint any capable person to make the necessary survey ; and such survey shall, for all the purposes of the Regulations, be taken and accepted as, or in lieu of Survey, by an appointed Mining Surveyor. 15. Transfer of Claims, £{c. Any claim, right, or privilege held under these Regulations may be transferred or assigned ; but where it is provided that any such claim, right, or privilege must originally be registered, the transfer or assignment thereof must also be registered. 1G Suspension of Regulations. If any portion of the Rules and Regulations of the Otago Gold Fields shall be deemed to be inapplicable to the requirements of any district, the Superintendent may, if he shall think fit, upon the receipt of a memorial to that effect, signed by holders of Miners' Rights and Business Licences residing in such district, suspend the operation of any regulation or section of a regulation, so far as such district is concerned, and may again annul such suspension, and renew the operation of such regulation or section, or may substitute others in lieu thereof. Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, (L.S.) at Dunedin, this twenty-first day of October, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. J. Hyde Haeeis, Superintendent. By His Honor's Command, Jas. Pateesox, Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION".—By his hcxnoe aetuur peneose seymottb, esquiee, supeeintendent of THE PEOYDS'CE OP MAELBOEOUGII, DT THE COLOHI OP SEW ZEALAXD. Wheeeas, Thomas Carter, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough, under and by virtue of the powers delegated to and vested iv him in that behalf, did, on the 15th day of June, 1864, make and ordain certain rules and regulations relating to mining on the Marlborough Gold Fields

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