✨ Gold-field discovery bonus regulations
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Every application for a bonus must be
made in writing to this office, and ac-
companied by a sketch plan of the
ground to which it refers.
No application shall refer to more than
twenty-five (25) square miles.
Where two or more applications conflict
wholly or in part, the earliest will have
precedence, unless it shall be made to
appear that a later applicant was, and
the earliest was not, the bona fide dis-
coverer.
No application shall include private pro-
perty, or land under lease from the
Crown.
No application will be received after the
first day of February, 1864.
The bonus will be payable to the first ap-
plicant in respect of any block of land
(he being the bona fide discoverer) when
it shall have been proved to the Super-
intendent that duty has been paid on
gold raised from the land in such block
to the amounts and in the time stated
in the following scale :—
For 16,000 oz. raised in 6 months £2,000
8,000 " " 4 " £1,000
4,000 " " 3 " £500
Every application will be published, imme-
diately on receipt, in the Government
Gazette, and in the Provincial news-
papers, and no objection to any applica-
tion will be entertained unless made
within two months after the date of such
publication.
The following places are excepted from
the above offer :
The River Lyell, for three miles
above its junction with the Buller.
The River Mangles, for five miles
above its junction with the Buller.
J. C. RICHMOND,
Provincial Secretary.
PRINTED FOR THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF NELSON, BY E. LUCAS, BRIDGE STREET.
Nelson Provincial Gazette 1863, No 27
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Notice of bonus for the discovery of a payable gold-field
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🌾 Primary Industries & Resources3 September 1863
Gold-field, Bonus, Nelson, Prospecting, Regulations
- J. C. Richmond, Provincial Secretary