8. Official Survey.

Upon receipt of such application and deposit or as soon thereafter as may be, the Warden shall direct the Mining Surveyor to proceed to the land applied for, and to survey the same, and to report as to the area, boundaries, and description thereof; the character of the ground, the likelihood of any river, creek, or permanent water spring, or artificial reservoir, which may be included within the boundaries of the said land, being required for, or the feasibility of the same being applied to public purposes, or for the use of miners of the district generally; and also as to any claims to prior occupancy which shall come to his knowledge, inquiry as to which it shall be his duty to make while making the survey; and to furnish a plan of such land on a scale of sixteen inches to the mile, together with a tracing of so much of the general map of the district as will be sufficient to connect the particular area applied for with at least one trigonometrical station, or in the absence of any such, with some fixed point.

4. Surveyor to Post Notice.

The surveyor shall, at the time of making the survey hereinbefore directed, post a notice in the form hereunto annexed, in some conspicuous place on the ground, and such notice shall be maintained by and at the expense of the applicants, until the application has been heard and determined, and a copy of such notice shall also be posted by the surveyor on the outside of the Warden’s office.

FORM OF NOTICE TO BE POSTED BY THE SURVEYOR.

To all persons whom it may concern.

I hereby give notice that __ residing at __ did on the day of __ apply to me for an

“Extended Claim” of [here state area] of land, which the Mining Surveyor has this day marked out, and that any person desiring to object to such extended claim, must, within seven clear days from the date of this notice, enter his objection at my office. And I further give notice that I shall hear and determine this application and the objection (if any) lodged there against at my office aforesaid, on the __ day of __ 186__.

Signature of [Warden].

Dated the __ day of __ 186__.

Posted by me this __ day of __ Mining Surveyor.

5. Extended Claims to be Registered.

If no valid objection is offered, the warden may, upon hearing the application, issue a certificate of registration for an extended claim, specifying therein the area granted, the exact position of the same, and the special conditions (if any) upon which such certificate has been granted, and the charge for such Registration shall be ten shillings.

6. Forfeiture.

If at any time the requisite number of holders of miners’ rights shall not be employed or occupied upon any such “Extended Claim,” the warden may, upon proof thereof being produced before him, in the presence of all parties interested, cancel the certificate of Registration, either in the whole or in part, as may be equitable. Provided always that a monetary penalty may be imposed in lieu of forfeiture as set forth in Section 6 of Regulation XI.

Dated at Picton this Thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

Issued by His Honor,

A. P. SEYMOUR,

Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough.

Printed for the Provincial Government by Millington & Co., Government Printers for the time being for such Government.