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RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE

7. PROTECTION BEFORE OCCUPANCY.

Business sites may be protected by the Warden for ten days, whilst the holder is engaged in preparing for the occupancy thereof; and such protection may be renewed by the Warden for one additional period of ten days; and such renewal shall be endorsed on the Certificate, and recorded in the Registration Book. Not more than one site shall be under protection at one time for any one person, and if any such protected site be in any public manner offered for sale, the protection shall thereby be forfeited.

8. PROTECTION.

Upon good cause being shown to the satisfaction of the Warden, any holder of a business site who shall have erected thereon a substantial building, or any person who shall be desirous of occupying as a business site, as soon as it shall have been worked out or abandoned, any ground occupied for mining purposes, may obtain protection for the same for a period of three months; and such protection may be renewed from time to time for not more than one month at each renewal: provided that the Business License under which the site is held shall be lodged with the Warden, and that the protection shall only continue in force while a Business License is held specially for such site.

9. NOTICE OF PROTECTION TO BE POSTED.

When any business site has been protected, the holder thereof shall post and maintain thereon a board not less than nine inches square, with the word "Protected," and the date and number of the registration, legibly written or painted thereon.

10. REGISTRATION.

All protections and renewals of protection of business sites shall be registered, and the fee for each registration or renewal shall be five shillings.

11. BUILDINGS ON ABANDONED SITES.

Any person taking possession of a forfeited or abandoned business site on which a building has been erected, may, if the building be not removed within seven days of such possession being taken, either remove it at the expense of the owner thereof, or take possession of it, and pay to him compensation, to be estimated by valuation.

XVII.—GENERAL REGULATIONS.

1. INTERFERENCE PROHIBITED.

No person shall, under any pretence whatever, damage, destroy, or otherwise interfere with any race or dam, or the water therein, or with any sludge-channel, drain, machine, or other appliance connected therewith, or with any claim, pegs, or notices, or other right or privilege lawfully held, unless the sanction of the owners thereof, or the authority of the Warden, shall first have been obtained for such interference.

2. COMPENSATION IN CASE OF FORFEITURE.

In all cases of forfeiture, the Warden may adjudge compensation to be paid, by the person to whom any claim or right may be awarded, to the former owner or holder thereof, and to appoint a time within which such payment shall be made: provided that such compensation shall not exceed in amount two-thirds of the estimated value of any work performed, which may be of any actual benefit to the person to whom the claim or right that is forfeited may be awarded.

3. PERMISSION TO ENTER CLAIMS.

The Warden shall have power to authorize in writing the entry of any surveyor, assessor, or any other person into and upon any claim for the purpose of measuring the depth of any shaft, or the dip, direction, inclination, or length of any tunnel or drive, or for any other purpose.

4. NEGLECT OF WARDEN'S ORDERS.

No person shall neglect or refuse to comply with any lawful notice or order given by the Warden.