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form hereinafter set forth in Schedule N
upon each boundary corner.

4. Registration.

At the expiration of the time specified in
the notice set forth in Schedule N, the
Warden may, if there be no valid objection
thereagainst, issue a certificate of registration for the site applied for, and the fee for
such registration shall be five (5) shillings.

5. Restriction of site.

Special sites shall not be granted for any
land which is known to be auriferous unless
the same has been worked out and abandoned, nor for land which is in the line or
direction of any workings, or which is or
may probably be, required for business
purposes.

6. Limitation of area.

The area granted to any person or party
as a special site shall in no case exceed a
quarter of an acre.

7. Discovery of auriferous deposit.

If any person be desirous of mining upon
a special site, such site shall be dealt with
in the same manner as provided by Sections
3, 4, 5, of Regulations XI, relating to residence.

XV.—DRAINAGE.

1. Compensation to be awarded.

When any person shall drain any ground
by any means whatever, such person shall be
entitled to receive compensation from the
holders of all claims benefitted by such
drainage.

2. Mode in which compensation is to be
   awarded.

If any person shall apply for compensation under the preceding clause the matter
shall be dealt with by the Warden, or Warden and Assessors, who shall fix the amount
of compensation to be paid by the person so
benefited, and may order such compensation
to be paid by instalments weekly or otherwise by way of rental, during such time as
the benefit lasts, and the said amount may
in like manner be readjusted from time to
time as the Warden may deem necessary.
Should, however, either party demand to
have the case tried by arbitration, it shall
be determined in that manner.

3. Mode in which arbitration to be conducted.

In the event of either party demanding
the case to be tried by arbitration, an
arbiter shall be appointed by either party,
and an umpire shall be chosen by the
arbiters before they shall enter upon the
reference, and if any arbiter or umpire that
is appointed shall die, refuse, or neglect to
act, another person shall forthwith be appointed, to supply the place of the person
so dying, refusing, or neglecting to act, in
the same manner as such last mentioned
person was appointed, and such compensation, when ascertained, shall be enforced
in the same manner as a judgment of the
Warden, or Warden and Assessors.

XVI.—AMALGAMATION.

1. Claims may be amalgamated.

On application being made to the Warden, it shall be lawful for him to allow any
number of claims not exceeding four (4) in
wet or difficult ground to be amalgamated.
Provided that it be proved [to the satisfaction of the Warden, that such amalgamation
is expedient or necessary for the efficient
working of the ground.

2. Amalgamated claims to be registered.

Applications for amalgamated claims shall
be made in writing to the Warden in the
form hereinafter set forth in Schedule O,
and copies of such notice shall be posted
and maintained for three (3) clear days on
the boundaries of the claims proposed to be
amalgamated; and if no valid objections be
entered thereagainst within three (3) clear
days from the date of posting such notices,
a certificate of registration may be granted
by the Warden to the applicant.

3. Number of persons to be employed.

In the event of claims been amalgamated,
the same number of Miners shall be employed
on such amalgamated claims as were required
before such amalgamation took place.

XVII.—QUARTZ CLAIMS.

1. Marking off quartz claims.

All quartz claims must be marked off at
each corner by a post, and the boundary
lines meeting at each corner post, shall be as
near as practicable at right angles to each
other. The length of all quartz claims shall
be with the course or supposed course of
the reef, and all the reefs or veins of quartz
within the said claims shall be the property
of the holders thereof.

2. Boundary posts.

The corner posts of all quartz claims shall
be at least three feet above the surface of
the ground. They must be firmly fixed in
the ground, and kept visible during the
working of a claim, or while it is held in
possession.

3. Prospecting quartz claims.

Any miner or miners prospecting or
discovering a quartz reef, shall be entitled
to hold in length one hundred (100) feet by
a breadth of three hundred (300) feet for
each holder of a Miner’s Right, but no such
claim shall exceed six hundred (600) feet in
length.

4. Ordinary quartz claims.

In ordinary quartz claims each miner shall
be entitled to hold in length sixty (60) feet
along the course or supposed course of the
reef by a breadth of three hundred (300)
feet, but no ordinary quartz claims shall
exceed seven hundred and twenty (720) feet
in length.