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9. TRANSFERS.

Any claim, right, or privilege held under these
Regulations may be transferred or assigned; but in all
cases where it is provided that any such claim, right,
or privilege must originally be registered, the transfer
or assignment thereof must also be registered and
noted on the back of the original certificate.

10. CERTIFICATE RENEWABLE ANNUALLY.

Every Certificate of Registration shall be brought
to the Warden for renewal annually, and if any such
grant or certificate is not so brought within thirty
days after the expiration of twelve months from the
date at which it has been granted, it may be deemed
to be forfeited, and the registration thereof may be
cancelled, unless good cause to the contrary be shown
to the satisfaction of the Warden.

11. REGISTRATION FEES.

The fees payable in respect of the registration of
extended claims and prospecting claims shall be ten
shillings; residence areas, special sites, and protection
for hut or building, five shillings; and all other
registrations not elsewhere specified, two shillings and
sixpence : and such fees shall include payment for
copies of notices, but not for any survey or other
expenses.

12. INFORMATION TO BE OBTAINED FROM
    REGISTRAR.

Any person requiring any information from the
mining registers, may obtain the same on payment of
one shilling, and it shall be the duty of the Mining
Registrar, or, if there is no Mining Registrar, of the
Warden's Clerk, to furnish such information.

XI.—WATER RIGHTS AND RACES.

1. APPLICATION.

Any person desirous to obtain a registered water-
right, or to construct a head-race, tail-race, or flood-
race, or a branch-race for the distribution of water, or
to alter or extend a race, shall proceed as directed by
Section X.

2. GROUND ALLOWED ON EACH SIDE OF A
   RACE.

The holder of a certificate of registration for a race
shall be entitled to occupy, as a site for such race, five
feet on each side of its central line; provided that this
regulation shall not apply to such portions of a race
as may be flumed, or to branch races.

3. SUPERIORITY OF RIGHT.

Superiority of right to a supply of water shall be
determined by priority of occupation, the earlier occu-
pant having the superior right. In all cases when
the occupier claims, under a certificate or other
authority in writing, granted by a Warden or
Commissioner, occupation shall be taken to have
commenced at the date of such certificate or authority.

4. RACES TO BE COMMENCED WITHIN ONE
   MONTH.

The cutting and formation of races must be com-
menced within one calendar month from the date of
registration, and the occupiers shall continue cutting
and forming the same until the work is completed,
otherwise any superiority of right to which they may
be entitled by virtue of such registration shall be
deemed to be forfeited.

5. ABANDONMENT OF RACES.

All right to any race shall become forfeited if
abandoned for the space of one calendar month, unless
in case of sickness or unavoidable absence, or in con-
sequence of failure of water; but it shall be lawful for
the Warden, in his discretion, upon sufficient cause
being shown, to suspend the operation of this
regulation for a further period; and a certificate of
such suspension shall be given in writing to the
occupiers, who shall post a copy of such certificate at
the head and termination of the race; and no such
suspension shall continue in force for more than one
month at a time.

6. HEADS OF RACES.

All races that may hereafter be cut shall have a
point specified at which they shall be taken from the
creek or river. In races already cut, this point shall
be taken to be the spot from which the race now
heads. No person shall shift or alter the head of any
race without the written sanction of the Warden, not
to the prejudice of any existing right.

7. INSUFFICIENT SUPPLY OF WATER.

If the water flowing in any creek or river is in-
sufficient to supply all the races connected therewith,
the owner of any right shall, on receipt of a written
notice from the owner of a superior right, stating that
the supply of such superior right is less than he is
entitled to, immediately cease to use the water, or such
portion thereof as may be necessary to make up the
supply of the superior right.

8. WATER TO BE LEFT RUNNING IN CREEKS.

The holders of water-rights shall not be entitled to
take water from any river or permanent stream, when
by so doing they will reduce the quantity of water in
such stream to less than one sluice-head.

9. WATER GUAGE.

A sluice-head of water shall be twenty superficial
inches, with a pressure of seven inches above the
centre of the aperture from which it flows.

Water shall be guaged by a box twelve feet long,
and of the depth and width shown in the annexed
tables and diagram, all measured in the clear.

The box shall be placed on a level, and must not be
covered, but must be kept full without overflowing.
The entrance end of such box must be left entirely
open, but the exit end must be fitted with a bar two
inches high, affixed to the floor of the box, and with a
pressure-board affixed to the top of the box, and leaving
an aperture of twenty square inches for each sluice-
head allowed.

When more than one sluice-head is to be guaged,
the box may be enlarged either horizontally or verti-
cally, but there must always be a depth of seven
inches from the top of the box to the centre of the
aperture; and this object must be obtained by making
such alterations in the dimensions of the pressure-