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machine unoccupied for one calendar month during a period when sufficient water has been available, shall be deemed to be forfeited, and may be granted by the Warden to any person who may apply for the same.

9.—Injury to Property by Dams.
If any claim shall be flooded, or property injured by the bursting of any dam-bank, the owner of such dam shall be liable for any loss or damage occasioned thereby, unless it is proved to the satisfaction of the Warden that such breaking away did not result from the faulty construction of the dam.

10.—Transfer or Assignment.
The right and interest in any dam or machine may be transferred or assigned by the holder thereof; but such transfer or assignment shall, in all cases, be registered with the Warden, and endorsed on the original certificate.

11.—Sites proving Auriferous.
If it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Warden that the ground occupied by any dam or machine contains auriferous earth or quartz, the owner of such dam or machine shall be compelled to remove the same: Provided that adequate compensation for such removal shall first have been estimated by assessors and paid by the person desirous of working the ground.

VI. CREEK AND RIVER CLAIMS.

1.—Protection during preliminary Operations.
During the time that any person shall be occupied in preliminary operations, having for their object the working of any Creek or River Claim, he shall be protected by the Warden in the occupancy of such claim: Provided that not less than one-half of the miners whom it is proposed ultimately to employ, shall be at work thereon.

2.—Wall to be allowed.
Holders of such claims shall be allowed a sufficient wall on either side of the bye-wash, and the width of such wall shall be defined by the Warden.

3.—Diversion of Permanent Rivers.
Any person desirous of diverting the course of any Permanent River, shall give Notice thereof to the Warden in the form hereinafter prescribed; and copies of such notices shall be posted and maintained, for a period of Ten clear days, at the points proposed for the commencement and termination of such diversion, as aforesaid, and if no valid objection be entered thereagainst within the aforesaid period, the Warden may issue a Certificate of Registration to the applicant.

FORM OF NOTICE.
(District and date.)

No. I hereby give notice that I intend to divert the course of (name of river) and to form a new channel therefor, commencing at a point situate and terminating at a point ____

(Signature, &c.)

• Here insert, with sufficient accuracy, the localities.

VII. ROADS, &c.

1.—Right of Water and Roadway.
Every person holding a claim under these regulations shall be entitled to a supply of water for his use in connection therewith, and to a roadway whereby he may, at all times, obtain free ingress and egress thereto and therefrom.

2.—Sludge and Water to be kept off Roads.
No person shall allow any sludge or water to run or spread over any road or crossing place.

3.—Protection to Public Roads.
No person shall dig within the distance of five feet from any public road, nor drive underneath, nor in any way interfere with such road without first obtaining the authority of the Warden.

4.—Alteration of Roads.
Any person desirous of altering the direction of any public or private road, and of occupying the site thereof for mining purposes, shall give notice thereof in writing to the Warden, and post and maintain a copy of such notice in a conspicuous part of such road for three clear days, upon the expiration whereof the Warden may authorise such alteration to be made.

5.—Right of Road over Claims.
Upon any four or more persons applying for a road or crossing place over any claim or other obstruction, the Warden shall determine whether or not such road or crossing place is necessary, and shall make such order relative thereto as he may deem requisite: