✨ Gold Fields Regulations
RULES AND REGULATIONS
OF THE
MARLBOROUGH GOLD FIELDS,
AND
RULES OF THE WARDEN’S COURTS.
I. PRELIMINARY REGULATIONS.
1.—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, Commissioner, Resident Magistrate, Justice of the Peace, 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 ‘Warden and assessors,’ except where it is otherwise specially provided.
The word ‘person’ shall mean the holder of a miner’s right.
The words ‘worked and abandoned ground’ shall mean any ground, the whole or greater portion of which has been mined upon for gold, and abandoned.
The words ‘New Gold Workings’ shall mean ground previously unworked, or which has been worked and abandoned.
Words importing the singular number shall include the plural number; and words importing the masculine gender shall include the feminine gender.
2.—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 carried on the person, and 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.
1.—Classification of Claims.
Ordinary claims shall mean alluvial claims worked without the aid of appliances for drainage.
Wet claims shall mean alluvial claims in flooded ground, which cannot be wrought without the aid of appliances for drainage.
Creek and river claims shall mean claims in the beds of creeks or rivers, the course whereof may have been or shall be wholly diverted for the purpose of mining therein.
River beach claims shall mean claims situated between high water mark and low water mark on the beaches of rivers.
Quartz claims shall mean claims in quartz reefs or lodes.
2.—Size of Claims.
Ordinary claims shall not exceed 25 feet by 25 feet for each person, unless the depth of sinking exceeds 50 feet, in which case such claim may be extended to 30 feet by 30 feet.
Wet claims shall not exceed 30 feet by 30 feet for each person.
Creek or river claims shall not exceed 30 feet for each man employed thereon, nor be more than 300 feet in length in the whole, to be measured in the direction of the course of the stream, by a width not exceeding the boundaries of the bed of creek or river, as defined by the Warden or other officer duly authorised in that behalf.
River beach claims shall not exceed 30 feet in length along the course of the river, with a frontage to low water mark, by a width bounded by high water mark: Provided that when any beach, or portion of a beach, shall exceed 30 feet in width, the Warden may, upon application being made to that
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Marlborough Provincial Gazette 1864, No 71
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🌾 Rules and Regulations of the Marlborough Gold Fields
🌾 Primary Industries & ResourcesMarlborough, Gold Fields, Warden’s Courts, Mining Regulations
🌾 Preliminary Regulations for Marlborough Gold Fields
🌾 Primary Industries & ResourcesMarlborough, Gold Fields, Warden, Miner’s Right
🌾 Classification and Size of Mining Claims
🌾 Primary Industries & ResourcesMining Claims, Alluvial Claims, Wet Claims, Creek Claims, River Beach Claims, Quartz Claims