✨ Mining regulations for dredging claims
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NELSON GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Bay Goldfields, on and after the date hereof, namely:—
DREDGING CLAIMS.
1.—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.
2.—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.
3.—REGISTRATION.
All Dredging Claims must be applied for and registered in accordance with the provisions of Section 9 of the Regulations now in force.
4.—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, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Nelson, this Fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
OSWALD CURTIS,
Superintendent.
Attested—
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Provincial Secretary.
Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Nelson, by CHARLES ELLIOTT, Trafalgar-street, Nelson, Printer for the time being to the said Government.
Nelson Provincial Gazette 1871, No 17
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Proclamation of new mining rules and regulations for Nelson goldfields
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🌾 Primary Industries & Resources4 July 1871
Mining, Goldfields, Nelson, Regulations, Dredging Claims
- Oswald Curtis, Superintendent
- Alfred Greenfield, Provincial Secretary