532 Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.

A sluice head of water—shall mean forty square inches of opening with a head of seven inches (head being measured from centre of opening to surface of water.)

The Act—shall mean “The Gold Mining Districts Act, 1873.”

Miners’ Rights.

2. Miners’ Rights shall be issued by the Receivers of Revenue.

Production of Miners’ Rights.

3. Every holder of a Miner’s Right must exhibit the same on demand of the Warden or any person duly authorised in writing by him.

Plans to be approved.

4. Every plan required to be lodged under the Act or Regulations must be subject to the approval of the Warden, and in the case of any works affecting public interests, plans, sections and specifications may be required by the Warden.

Angle Trench.

5. After every claim shall have been marked out with a post at each angle thereof, as required by the Act, and previous to notice of marking out, registration, or application for license, the owner thereof shall cut an L trench six feet long and six inches deep along the boundary lines, commencing from each angle post.

Notice of Marking out.

6. The owner, or one of the owners, of every claim situated within a radius of five miles from the nearest Warden’s Office shall, within forty-eight hours after marking out the same, (or within ninety-six hours, if the claim shall be situated outside that radius), give notice thereof to the Mining Registrar in the form hereunto annexed, marked Schedule A, stating the situation and the day and hour of marking out such claim, and all the other particulars therein prescribed. Provided that in lieu of such notice any such claim may be registered in the Mining Registrar’s Office within forty-eight hours (or ninety-six hours, as the case may be), after such marking out, in manner hereinafter provided.

Claim to be Registered or License applied for within ten days.

7. Within ten days after marking out any such claim, the owner or one of the owners thereof shall register the same in the Mining Registrar’s Office, in the manner hereinafter prescribed, unless he shall make application to the Warden for a license in the form hereunto annexed, marked Schedule B.

Unoccupied Land contiguous to a Licensed Holding.

8. The owner of any licensed holding upon which bona fide mining operations are being carried on, who may desire to include therein any unoccupied land, not exceeding in area one-third of such licensed holding, and which shall be situated immediately contiguous thereto, may, after having registered such land as a claim, apply to the Warden for permission to hold the same unworked until application is made for a license to include the same as hereinafter provided; and upon the report of the Mining Inspector the Warden may, in the exercise of his discretion, grant or refuse such application: Provided that such permission shall be revoked and determined if the owner of such licensed holding shall cease to carry on bona fide mining operations. And provided also that before the next annual payment in respect of such licensed holding shall become due, the license for the same shall be surrendered, and a new application be made for the whole of the land, to be included in one license.

Claims presumed to be abandoned.

9. When it shall come to the knowledge of the Mining Inspector that any claim, not being a licensed holding, has remained unworked for a period of seven days, he shall issue a notice to the owner thereof, or to any person holding a registered interest therein, in the form hereunto annexed, marked Schedule C, stating that upon a day to be fixed in such notice, not being less than seven, nor more than fourteen days from the day of service, or of the posting of such notice, whichever may last be done, as hereinafter prescribed, he will certify that such claim has been abandoned, unless objection thereto in writing be previously lodged at the Mining Inspector’s office by the owner or some other person holding a registered interest therein. Such notice may be served personally on the owner, or some one of the owners if there are more than one, if he or they can conveniently be found, and if not, such notice shall be posted upon some conspicuous part of the land comprised in the claim, and a copy thereof outside the Warden’s office.

If objection made.

10. If previous to the day fixed as aforesaid any person holding a registered interest in such claim shall have lodged with the Mining Inspector a written objection to such claim being certified as abandoned, the Mining Inspector shall forego such proceedings, but may apply to the Warden to declare such claim forfeited.

If no objection made.

11. If on such day fixed as aforesaid no objection shall have been lodged thereto, the Mining Inspector shall forward to the Mining Registrar a certificate to the effect that such claim has been abandoned, and the Mining Registrar shall file such certificate in his office, and shall make an entry of the same in the Register of such claim.

Claims when deemed abandoned.

12. A registered claim, not being a licensed holding, shall be deemed to be abandoned when notice thereof shall have been given to the Mining Registrar, as provided by Regulation 69, or when an entry shall have been made in the register of such claim by the Mining Registrar pursuant to the foregoing section.

Claims to be bona fide worked.

13. Every claim shall be bona fide and continuously worked from day to day, unless sufficient reason be proved to the satisfaction of the Warden, and there shall be employed thereon, for gold mining purposes, at least one man for every fifteen thousand square feet of land comprised in the claim.

Neglect or absence of Workmen.

14. No forfeiture of any claim or portion thereof, or any share or interest therein, shall accrue from non-working through the neglect, absence, or omission on the part of any workman employed thereon, or of any tributer: Provided that the owner of such claim, portion, share or interest, shall, without undue delay, after notice in writing, signed by the Mining Inspector, in the form hereto annexed, marked Schedule D, served upon him or posted on the claim, proceed to rectify such neglect, absence or omission.

No Jumping allowed.

15. No person shall take possession of any ground held and registered as a claim, or of any registered right or privilege whatsoever, without the consent of the owner, or the authority of the Warden in writing.