✨ Mining Regulations Proclamation
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF MARLBOROUGH)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette with any Official Signature thereto affixed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
A. P. SEYMOUR,
Superintendent.
VOL. XII.] WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1871. [No. 222]
PROCLAMATION
By his Honor ARTHUR PENROSE SEYMOUR,
Esquire, Superintendent of the
Province of Marlborough, in the
Colony of New Zealand,
WHEREAS, by a Proclamation issued by me on the Twentieth day of May, 1870, in exercise of power vested in me by delegation of the Governor of New Zealand, certain Regulations were declared to be in force within the limits of the Pelorus and Wairau Gold Fields, in the Province of Marlborough, and whereas it is expedient to make additional regulations.
Now, therefore, I, ARTHUR PENROSE SEYMOUR, in further exercise of the aforesaid power, do hereby make the undermentioned additional regulations, and declare that the same shall be in force on and after the Nineteenth day of October instant, within the limits of said Gold Fields.
DREDGING CLAIMS
- SIZE OF CLAIMS.
In Dredging Claims, each holder of a Miner’s Right shall be entitled to an area of 150 feet along the course of the river or stream, by a width bounded by the ordinary high water mark.
- HOW TO BE MARKED OUT.
Dredging Claims must be marked out at right angles to the course of the river or stream, and by a peg or post, standing not less than three feet above the surface of the ground, at each of the four corners thereof.
- REGISTRATION.
All Dredging Claims must be applied for and registered in accordance with the provisions of Section 9 of the Regulations now in force.
- SURVEY.
The Warden may require the applicant or applicants for a Dredging Claim to have the same surveyed, and to deposit a plan thereof with the Mining Registrar.
Given under my hand at Wellington, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Marlborough, at Blenheim, this eighteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy one.
A. P. SEYMOUR,
Superintendent.
By his Honor’s command,
JAMES BALFOUR WEMYSS,
Provincial Secretary.
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Marlborough Provincial Gazette 1871, No 222
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🌾 Proclamation of Additional Regulations for Pelorus and Wairau Gold Fields
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources18 October 1871
Mining, Regulations, Gold Fields, Dredging Claims, Marlborough
- ARTHUR PENROSE SEYMOUR, Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough
- JAMES BALFOUR WEMYSS, Provincial Secretary