✨ Gold Field Lease Regulations
Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
VOL. XVIII.] MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1869. [No. 71.
COROMANDEL GOLD FIELD.
REGULATIONS FOR THE GRANTING OF LEASES.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Honour JOHN WILLIAMSON,
Esquire, Superintendent of the
Province of Auckland, in the
Colony of New Zealand.
WHEREAS by the twenty-ninth section of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, to demise, for mining purposes, to any person, for any term not exceeding fifteen years from the making of the lease, any auriferous Crown Lands, not exceeding ten acres in the whole of alluvial ground, or an area of four hundred yards by two hundred yards on a quartz reef, and to grant sites for machinery and any necessary easements for the purpose aforesaid. Provided always that no such lease shall be granted until ten days after notice of the intention to grant the same shall have been published in the New Zealand Gazette, or in the Gazette of the Province in which such lands are situate, and also in at least one of the local newspapers best calculated, in the opinion of the Governor, to give publicity to the same, amongst the persons specially interested.
And, whereas, by the thirtieth section of the same Act, it is further enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to make such Regulations, not being contrary to the provisions of this Act, as he shall think fit for regulating the granting of leases for mining purposes, and the terms and conditions on which such leases shall be granted, the amount of rent or royalty to be paid, whether in advance or otherwise, by the grantees of such leases, the manner in which persons desirous of having such leases granted to them shall mark out the land for which they apply, the mode and time of making and investigating, and of determining upon applications for, and objections to, the granting of leases, the amount of deposit to be paid by the applicant and objector, respectively, as a security for the costs connected with such determination, and the terms and conditions upon which such leases may be held, occupied, worked, assigned, and forfeited or cancelled, and such Regulations from time to time to alter, amend, or revoke.
And, whereas, by the forty-second section of the said Act, it is further enacted that the Governor may by proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette or in the Gazette of the Province in which any Gold Field as aforesaid is situate, proclaim and declare the exceptions to be made from leases and licenses granted under this Act, and he may also
Next Page →
Auckland Provincial Gazette 1869, No 71
✨ LLM interpretation of page content
🌾 Proclamation of Regulations for Granting Leases on Coromandel Gold Field
🌾 Primary Industries & ResourcesGold Fields, Lease Regulations, Mining, Coromandel, Crown Lands
- JOHN WILLIAMSON, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland