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7. The wall being the common property of the claim holders between whose claims such wall may be situated, no party shall take down, mine into, or remove any such wall without obtaining the consent in writing thereto of the owners of adjoining claim. But the party so working, mining into, or removing the said wall must secure the ground by placing props with good and sufficient caps and sole pieces, not more than 3 feet apart, along the entire length of the wall so worked or removed. But in case that some of the claim holders refuse to divide the wall with the owners of the adjoining claim, the final decision shall rest with the Commissioner.

The words "miner," "person," and "claim" shall be read as both singular and plural.

The word "miner" as used in these Regulations, shall mean the holder of a "miner’s right," and no other.

The word "claim" shall be taken to apply to any authorised holding, but generally to claims held under "Miner’s Rights."

The word "person" shall include joint stock companies when such construction is not repugnant to the subject or context.

1. Miners’ Rights shall be issued by the Commissioner, on payment of a fee of Only Pound. Such Miner’s Right to be carried on by the person, and not transferable. In the event of the loss of a Miner’s Right, a duplicate shall be granted by the Commissioner on payment of a fee of 5s.

2. Every holder of a Miner’s Right must exhibit the same on demand of any officer duly authorised, or any person holding a Miner’s Right.

3. Every holder of a Miner’s Right refusing to exhibit it when demanded by any authorised person shall not be entitled to any protection in the possession of his claim.

4. The extent of ground that may be taken and held by any person, whether for sinking, surface digging, river working, or cradling, or for sluicing on ground or plank, or for mining on quartz reefs, shall be for each man employed, as follows:

For shallow sinking under 30 feet deep ... 30
For deep sinking from 30 to 50 feet deep ... 40
"" "" from 50 to 100 feet deep ... 50
"" "" from 100 to 150 feet deep ... 55
"" "" from 150 feet deep and upwards ... 60

For Quartz mining, 50 feet along the supposed course of the reef by 150 feet on each side from the supposed centre of the reef.

For River mining 36 feet frontage, with 12 feet of each bank.

When horse, steam, or water power is employed, each horse-power shall be deemed equal to three men.

Claims now occupied shall be deemed to have been duly taken under the Regulations, and shall be hereafter subject thereto.

5. The Commissioner may grant a double claim for all alluvial or river mining on ground which has been already worked.

6. A space or wall of three feet in breadth for shallow sinking, 6 feet for deep sinking, 6 feet on the banks of river claims, and 6 feet for quartz mining claims must be left in its natural state between the boundaries of adjoining claims.

7. Every claim must be distinctly marked by pegs driven firmly into the ground, one at each corner thereof, and standing at least two feet above the surface of the ground, and all to be kept clearly visible so long as the claim is occupied, provided that when any corner cannot be so marked on account of the nature of the ground, such peg be fixed at the nearest practicable point.

8. All boundaries on forest land to be well marked on the nearest large trees, and their distance from the pegs noted down, so as to prevent future trespass or litigation.

9. All claims of whatever kind are required to be surveyed, as soon as possible, under instructions from the Commissioner, and at the cost of the claimants, by a surveyor approved of by the Commissioner. A plan of each survey to be lodged in the Commissioner’s office. Any claim left unsurveyed without the permission of the Commissioner on sufficient reason shown, will receive no protection in case of dispute arising as to boundaries.

10. No fossicking or surface digging will be allowed on any other person’s claim. Everything found within the parallels of such a claim shall belong, without restriction to its owners.

11. No person shall remove any peg from a claim in the occupation of any other person, nor deface, destroy, or remove any notice posted in accordance with the Gold Fields Regulations, nor interfere with any mark or boundary.

12. Persons who discover available lands for mining shall be entitled to occupy in addition to their own individual claims as follows:

• If not more than two persons, one claim.
• If more than two persons, two claims.

Any first corner on a new line of reef, or taking up ground half a mile ahead on the same line as that already occupied by other miners, shall be entitled to mark out a prospecting claim which shall be confirmed to him by the Commissioner, on the discovery of payable gold, a fact to be ascertained by the Commissioner himself.

15. In the case of the holders of any claim erecting machinery for pumping or