In sec. 18 of these regulations. Provided further that such road, bridge, or crossing-place, shall be of a breath, where practicable, of not less than fifteen (15) feet, and be so constructed that no injury shall accrue to any head-race, tail-race, drain, creek, or culvert passing under it.

Roads not to be damaged by undermining.

32. No person shall dig within the distance of five (5) feet from the nearest wheel track of any road, nor drive underneath the same, unless the drive shall be more than twelve (12) feet beneath the surface of the road, nor shall any person interfere with any such road.

Protection of claims, and terms of protection.

33. Permission to retain a claim unworked may be granted by the Warden, and the same shall be therein registered for such time as the Warden shall think fit, not exceeding the terms hereinafter mentioned. The causes and time for which a claim shall be registered under this regulation shall be as follows viz:—

34. Any claim having been proved to the satisfaction of the Warden to have been worked by the party wishing to register it, for at least three (3) months immediately preceding the application for Registration and no payable quartz having been obtained from such claim for at least one month previous—Three (3) months.

35. The claim having been sunk and worked to the water—the party being unable to overcome the same—the adjoining claims not being down to the water—Three (3) months.

36. Any claim the holder of which intends to procure machinery for quartz crushing or water bailing, during the time of registration, and shall give security by bond, or otherwise, to the satisfaction of the Warden, that he will procure such machinery within a time to be fixed by the Warden—Three (3) months. And such further time as the Warden shall think fit, not exceeding in the whole twelve (12) months, according to the description of machinery, and the plan for which it was ordered.

37. Any river claim during fluming, race cutting, or other works for the benefit of the claim—Three (3) months.

38. Any holder of Miner’s Right, suffering from sickness, or being compelled to be absent from sickness in his family—Registration for the period of the continuance thereof. Proof of sickness shall be the production of a medical certificate, or two of the co-partners, or holders of adjacent claims, shall make a statutory declaration before the Warden.

39. Any miner engaged as a party to or a witness in any case, or as an assessor or juryman in any Court of Justice—During the sitting of the Court in the case in which he is engaged, and with reasonable time for travelling to-and-fro.

40. Any person engaged in actual service as a special constable, militiaman, or volunteer—during the continuance of such service.

Protection of stacked quartz.

8. Any miner wishing to retain possession of quartz or other auriferous substances, may have the same protected for a period not exceeding three (3) months, provided that such substance is properly stacked on ground not supposed to be adapted to mining purposes, and that a board with the owner’s name, address, and date of stacking, legibly written or painted thereon, be posted close to such a stack.

Protection void if false representation made.

34. Any protection obtained by false representation shall be void, and no person shall be allowed to take up, occupy, or work, any quartz mining claim during the period of protection of any other claim held by him.

Notice of protection to be posted on claim.

35. All registered claims, shares, rights, or privileges, must be marked by a notice with the owner’s name, address, and particulars of the claims, shares, right, or privilege, posted on the ground.

Prospecting.

36. Any person discovering new gold workings, and being desirous of obtaining an increased area thereon, must immediately report such discovery, with full particulars thereof, to the Warden or other proper authority. Such persons shall then define the line of reef or lead in the following manner—By laying bare ten feet of the same if within four feet of the surface of the ground, if at greater depth, then by erecting two flags in the line thereof and shall afford every facility for the inspection of such reef or lead. The Warden shall publish the particulars of every application for a prospecting claim by posting the same outside his office for fourteen days.

Reward for prospecting.

37. Discoverers of new gold workings may have allotted to them as a reward for prospecting, where the discovery is more than five (5) miles, and less than ten (10) miles from existing workings, an extent of ground not exceeding one additional claim per man. Where the discovery is more than ten (10) miles and less than fifteen (15) miles distant, two (2) additional claims per man. Where the discovery is more than fifteen (15) miles, and less than twenty (20) miles, three (3) additional claims per man, and where the discovery is above twenty (20) miles distant, four (4) additional claims per man. Provided that the increased grants shall not be given to more than four.