✨ Proclamation of Gold Fields Rules and Regulations
NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor’s Command,
F. E. STEWART,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XIV.] TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1867. [No. LXXXII.
PROCLAMATION.
I, WILLIAM SETON MOORHOUSE, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, in pursuance of the powers delegated to me under “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” do hereby make the following “Rules and Regulations of the West Canterbury Gold Fields.”
I.—PRELIMINARY REGULATIONS.
- Interpretation clause.
In the construction, and for the purposes of these Regulations, the following terms shall, if not inconsistent with the context or subject matter, have the respective meanings hereby assigned to them, that is to say:—
The word “Warden” shall mean Warden, Justice of the Peace, Resident Magistrate, or any other Officer entrusted with the superintendence of the Gold Fields, or any portion thereof, and holding a Commission duly empowering him to have charge thereof, and shall include Wardens and Assessors, except where it is otherwise specially provided.
The word “Person” shall mean the holder of a Miner’s Right, Business or other License or Lease.
The word “Claim” shall mean the portion of land which each person or party shall be entitled to occupy, or occupy and mine in, under any Miner’s Right, Business or other License or Lease to be issued under the provisions of the “Gold Fields Act, 1866.”
The words “New Gold Workings” shall mean ground previously unworked.
The words “Prospecting Area” shall mean the extent of ground allowed and protected for the purpose of prospecting under Section III, Clause 3.
The words “Prospecting Claim” shall mean that portion of ground granted and defined by the Warden on gold being struck thereon.
The word “Business” shall mean and include any vending or disposing of any goods, merchandise, or chattels, whether by hawking or any other manner.
Words importing the singular number shall include the plural number, and words importing the masculine gender shall include the feminine gender.
- The Miner’s Right.
Every person residing on a Gold Field and engaged in mining for gold, shall take out a Miner’s Right, such Miner’s Right to be produced for inspection when demanded by the Warden or other Officer, or by any person duly authorised in that behalf in writing by the Warden.
II.—CLAIMS.
- Classification of claims.
Ordinary Claims shall mean all claims except River and Quartz Claims. River Claims shall mean all claims situated in beds of rivers, creeks, gullies, or water courses; Quartz Claims shall mean claims in quartz reefs or lodes.
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- WILLIAM SETON MOORHOUSE, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury