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NELSON GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

7. 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.

8. 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.

XVIII. GENERAL REGULATIONS.

1. MACHINERY TO REPRESENT LABOR.

The erection of machinery for the working of claims shall be deemed equivalent to manual labor in the following manner, that is to say, each sum of £500 expended in machinery shall be equivalent to the labor of one man for twelve months.

2. INTERFERENCE PROHIBITED.

No person shall, under any pretence whatever, damage, destroy, or otherwise interfere with any race or dam, or 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 interference.

3. 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.

4. PERMISSION TO ENTER CLAIMS.

The Warden shall have power to authorise 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.

5. POWER TO ENTER QUARTZ CLAIMS AND WORK ALLUVIAL GROUND.

Any quartz claim may include within its boundaries any river, permanent stream, or spring, provided always that in such case the bed of such river or stream, and a distance of one chain at right angles from each bank thereof, shall be reserved for the purpose of alluvial mining, and it shall be lawful for any person to work the said reserve for such purpose, provided he does not interfere with the original holder, nor shall any such alluvial workings be carried on within a distance of fifty feet of where a quartz reef is visible, or within the same distance of any quartz workings.

6. NEGLECT OF WARDEN'S ORDERS.

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

7. RACES, ETC., MAY BE CARRIED THROUGH CLAIMS.

The Warden shall have power, when it shall be proved to his satisfaction to be necessary, to authorise any person to pass any race, tunnel, road, or tramway, over, under, or through any claim or right; provided that compensation shall be paid for estimated damage, if any, prior to the commencement of the construction of any such race, tunnel, road, or tramway; and provided also, that this shall not affect the right of the holders of any claim to any gold which may be in any ground over, under, or through which such race, tunnel, road, or tramway is taken.

8. SITE PROVING AURIFEROUS.

Any person desirous of mining for gold upon any business site, residence area, or special site, or upon any ground on which any race, tramway, shoot, dam, machine, or other right or privilege is situated, or upon any road or public reserve, may do so; provided that, before commencing work, an equally good road, race, tramway, or dam be constructed, or compensation be paid at a valuation for any estimated damage; and provided also, that the sanction of the Warden be first obtained; and the Warden may make such orders relative to the mode of working the ground, the restoration of the soil, and other conditions, as he may deem necessary or desirable; and in the case of business sites and public roads and reserves, he may require that a sufficient sum be deposited in his office as security for the fulfilment of any conditions imposed.

9. PLURALITY OF SHARES.

No person can possess a title to more than one claim, unless he holds an additional Miner's Right for each additional claim. Vide Section VIII., "Goldfields Act, 1866."

10. CLAIMS NOT TO BE FORFEITED BY NEGLECT OF HIRED WORKMEN, CONTRACTOR, TRIBUTOR, OR TENANT.

No claim, right, or privilege shall be deemed to be forfeited through the neglect of any hired servant, contractor, tributor, or tenant thereon: provided that, if after seven days' notice in writing of such neglect or absence has been given to the owner or holder thereof (either personally or by leaving the same at his last known place of residence), such neglect or absence is continued, any such claim, right, or privilege shall be deemed to be absolutely relinquished.

11. WAGES MAN MAY BE PUT ON.

When any person is absent from a claim, the other shareholders may, if they think proper, put on a wages-man to supply his place, and such wages-man shall have a lien on the claim for the amount of wages due to him.