148 AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

the said Act shall register every such machine of
which he is the owner with the principal Officer of
Police for the District and shall thereupon and upon
Inspector of the Thames Gold Mining District a true
payment of a fee of one pound receive a license in
the form set forth in Schedule A hereto annexed
which license shall be in force until the 31st March
then next ensuing and shall be renewable annually.

2. Any person who shall have in his possession
   any unlicensed or unregistered machine shall be
   liable to a penalty of fifty pounds.

3. Any person who shall use any unregistered or
   unlicensed machine within the meaning of the said
   Act for the purpose of extracting gold from any ore
   or mineral substance or of refining retorting or
   otherwise treating gold for the purpose of refining
   the same after its extraction shall be liable to a
   penalty of one hundred pounds for each offence.

4. Any person who shall deliver any ore or
   mineral substance to any unlicensed or unregistered
   machine owner for the purpose of such ore or mineral
   substance being treated at or by such machine shall
   be liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds for
   each offence.

5. Upon registration and payment of the afore-
   said fee every machine owner shall receive a register
   book in the form Schedule B hereto annexed and
   shall in such register book enter from time to time
   true and correct accounts of all ore or mineral sub-
   stances received by him for treatment at or by his
   machine or machines together with all such other
   information as is required by the forms of such
   register and all such entries shall be made forthwith
   upon receipt of such ore or mineral substance or as,
   in the case may be upon the results of the treatment
   thereof becoming known to such owner.

6. Any machine owner who shall neglect or delay
   to make such entries as aforesaid shall be liable to a
   penalty of five pounds for each offence.

7. Any machine owner who shall wilfully omit to
   make such entries as aforesaid or who shall know-
   ingly make any false entry in such register shall be
   liable to a penalty of two hundred pounds for each
   offence and upon a second conviction shall be liable
   in addition to such penalty to have his license
   cancelled.

8. Every person who shall deliver any ore or
   mineral substance to any machine owner for treat-
   ment at his machine shall furnish to such machine
   owner a true account of his own name and address of
   the name and address of the owner of such ore or
   mineral substance and of the mine claim or locality
   from which such ore or mineral substance was
   obtained.

9. Any person who shall refuse to furnish such
   account or who shall wilfully furnish a false account
   under the last preceding regulation shall be liable to
   a penalty of one hundred pounds and the machine
   owner to whom such ore or mineral substance shall
   have been delivered without such account or with a
   false account shall impound and detain such ore or
   mineral substance until he shall have obtained a true
   account in relation to the same and shall forthwith
   inform the police of such impounding and detention
   under a penalty of fifty pounds.

10. Every machine owner shall between the 1st
    and fifth days of each month furnish to the Mining
    Inspector of the Thames Gold Mining District a true
    and correct return in the form C hereto annexed
    under a penalty of five pounds for every neglect
    to furnish the same and a penalty of twenty
    pounds for every wilful neglect or refusal to furnish the same.

11. The said Mining Inspector may at his discretion
    require any such return to be verified by the statutory
    declaration of the machine owner furnishing such
    return and any neglect or refusal to make such dec-
    laration shall render such machine owner liable to
    a penalty of five pounds.

12. The Principal Officer of Police for the District,
    the Mining Inspector for the District and any person
    specially authorised in writing by any Warden
    may at all reasonable times enter upon any
    machine premises and inspect such machine
    the license therefor and the register book hereby
    required to be kept and may make extracts from such
    register and may upon the Warden's authority in
    writing seize impound and remove such register and
    any machine owner delaying or refusing to produce
    such machine license or register for such inspection
    shall be liable to a penalty of twenty pounds for the
    first and of fifty pounds for every subsequent
    offence.

13. Machines used only for analysis or other
    scientific purposes must be registered annually and a
    fee of one shilling paid therefor but their owners
    and persons using them only for such purposes
    shall be exempt from the preceding regulations.

14. If any machine registered to be used only for
    analysis or other scientific purposes shall be used for
    treating any ore or mineral substance for other than
    analytic or scientific purposes the owner thereof
    shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds.

15. All penalties prescribed by these regulations
    may be sued for in name of the principal Officer of
    Police for the District or other person authorised by
    any Warden.

16. The words and expressions mentioned in Sec-
    tion 2 of the said Act shall in these regulations have
    the same meanings as are respectively assigned to
    them in the said Act.

SCHEDULE A.

QUARTZ CRUSHING MACHINE LICENSE.

Hauraki Gold Mining District
Division.

A. B. of
is hereby Licensed as the owner of a registered
(here describe machine or machines, 12 Stamp Crushing
Machine, a berdan, amalgamator, retort, melting fur-
nace, refining process or otherwise) at (place where
machine situate) until the 31st day of March next.

Fee £1 paid.
Dated 187

X. Y.
Principal Officer of Police.