AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

ings of the Board, without sufficient excuse, of which sufficiently the Board shall be the judge, cease to hold a Miners’ Right, or shall resign his seat by letter addressed to the Board.

11. Such vacancy shall be filled up by the remaining Members of the Board electing by ballot a member, holding a similar qualification to that held by the Member whose seat was vacated, and such Member shall hold office during the remainder of the term of office of the outgoing Member.

12. The Board shall, from time to time, elect its own Chairman, and shall hold its first Meeting, at such time, and place, as the Superintendent shall, by public notice, appoint.

13. No error, or defect in the election, or constitution of the Board or in its mode of proceedings, shall affect the validity of its action, and no Mining Regulations passed by such Board shall be assented to by the Superintendent, until the same shall have been published for public information for one month.

14. The day of nomination shall be the second Monday in March of this, and each succeeding year. Given under my hand and seal, at Auckland, this twenty first day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

Thomas B. Gillies,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

(Address.)
(Date.)

We, the undersigned holders of the under noted Miners’ Rights, and having held the same for not less than three calendar months, prior to this date, do hereby nominate

A B
C D
G H
I J
K L
M N

to be a Member of the Mining Board, for the District of the Province of Auckland. Miners’ Rights No. ___

I, X Y, the above named candidate, do hereby accept the above nomination, and declare that I am the holder of Miner’s Right No. ___, and have held a Miner’s Right for six months last past.

Dated this day of 187__
X. Y.

PROCLAMATION.

By THOMAS BANNATYNE GILLIES, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.

I, THOMAS BANNATYNE GILLIES, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, in exercise of the powers and authority delegated to me under the provisions of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” “The Gold Fields Act Amendment Act, 1868,” and “The Gold Fields Act Amendment Act, 1869,” do hereby proclaim and declare that I do hereby make the following Regulations and Amendments of Regulations in respect of all Goldfields within the Province of Auckland.

1. The owners of any claim held under Miners’ Rights, or lease of auriferous Crown Lands within the said Goldfields, who shall desire to make any level, adit, drive, or tunnel through other Crown Lands, whether held by Miners’ Rights or otherwise, shall make application, in writing, to the Warden or Wardens for liberty to do so, specifying as nearly as may be, the portions of such other lands as shall be used in making such level, adit, drive, or tunnel.

2. On receipt of such application the Warden or Wardens shall obtain from the Mining Inspector for the Field, or if there be no such Mining Inspector, from some other competent Mining Engineer, a report on the propriety of granting such application, and as to the terms on which the same should be granted.

3. On receipt of such report the Warden or Wardens may in their discretion refuse such application, or grant the same subject to such terms and conditions as they shall think fit, and to payment of such compensation to the said Warden or Wardens upon hearing all parties interested and their witnesses’ adjuge.

4. Along with such application, as aforesaid, shall be paid to the Warden the sum of Five pounds five shillings, three Pounds three shillings of which shall be paid to the Mining Inspector or other person for his report, and there shall be further payable, upon the hearing of any claim for compensation, the usual fees and costs payable in the Warden’s court, such fees and costs to be payable by such of the parties as the Warden shall adjudge.

5. To the 23rd Regulation in respect of granting leases for the said Goldfields shall be added the following proviso:— Provided also that the Superintendent may if he shall think fit, upon the report of the Mining Inspector for the Field, and such other evidence as he may require, that the holders of any lease have during the previous half-year well and efficiently manned and worked the land held by them under lease, and have at all times kept employed thereon as many men as could be reasonably employed thereon, accept such certificate and evidence in lieu of the further rent hereinbefore prescribed and by such lease made payable. And such Mining Inspector shall be entitled to receive from such lessee the sum of Two pounds two shillings for each such report.

6. No protection shall be granted in respect of any claim except upon the report and certificate of the Mining Inspector or other competent person appointed by the Warden for which report and certificate the Inspector or person appointed shall be entitled to receive before making such report the sum of One pound one shilling from the parties applying for protection.

Given under my hand and Seal, at Auckland, this Twenty-first day of February, One thousand eight hundred and seventy.

Thomas B. Gillies,
Superintendent.

PORT OF SHORTLAND.

PROCLAMATION.

By Thomas Bannatyne Gillies, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand.

UNDER and in pursuance of the powers and authority in me vested by the provisions of “The Marine Act, 1867,” I, Thomas Bannatyne Gillies, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, do hereby define the limits and boundaries, for the purposes of the said recited Act, of the undermentioned Wharfs: that is to say—

SHORTLAND WHARF.

Bounded by Grey-street, in the town of Shortland, on the East; and by the waters of the Kauaeranga Creek on the West.

GRAHAMSTOWN WHARF.