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NELSON GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

or any portion thereof, and holding a commission duly
empowering him to have charge thereof, and shall
include "Warden and Assessors," except where it is
otherwise specially provided.

The word "person" shall mean the holder of a
Miner's Right, Business, or other License or Lease.
The word "claim" shall mean the portion of land
which each person shall be lawfully entitled to mine
in or occupy, or any share or interest in any claim, or
registered right held or granted under these Regula-
tions, or under the provisions of the "Goldfields Act
1866," or any amendment thereto.

The words "ordinary claim" shall mean all mining
claims except river, quartz, wet, extended and pros-
pecting, and tunnelling claims.

"River claims" shall mean all claims in the beds of
rivers or permanent streams.

"Wet claims" shall mean claims in flooded ground,
which cannot be worked without appliances for
drainage, and defined as such by the Warden.

"Ordinary quartz claims" shall mean all quartz
claims except prospecting areas, extended and pros-
pecting quartz claims.

"Extended claims" shall mean claims surveyed and
granted by certificate, as hereinafter provided.

"Prospecting claim" shall mean such portion of
ground as may be granted and defined by the Warden,
on gold being struck in new ground, as hereinafter
provided.

"Prospecting area" shall mean such portion of
ground as may be allowed and protected for the
purpose of prospecting, as hereinafter provided.

"Race" shall mean any artificial channel or ditch
for the conveyance of water, and also the natural bed
of any creek or gully through which water is diverted
for mining purposes.

"Sluice-head" shall mean twenty superficial inches of
water gauged, as hereinafter directed.

"Quartz reefs" shall include all leaders and veins
of quartz.

"Mining operations" shall include mining for gold,
the erection of machinery, and the construction of
works connected therewith, and the doing of all lawful
acts incident or conducive thereto.

"Schedule hereto annexed" shall mean in the form
or to the like effect as the "Schedule referred to."

"Frontage line or length" shall mean the length
along or parallel to the reef.

"End line" shall mean the line or distance between
the pegs at right angles to the reef.

Words importing the singular number shall include
the plural number, and words importing the masculine
gender shall include the feminine gender.

2. MINER'S RIGHT AND BUSINESS LICENSE.

Every person residing on a goldfield, and engaged
in mining for gold, or holding any share in any mining
interest except a gold-mining lease, shall be possessed
of a Miner's Right; and every person residing on a
goldfield, and engaged in vending or disposing of any
goods, merchandise, or chattels, whether by hawking
or in any other manner, shall be possessed of a
Business License; and every Miner's Right and
Business License shall be produced for inspection
when demanded by the Warden, or by any person
duly authorised in that behalf, in writing, by the
Warden.

II.—CLAIMS.

1. SIZE OF CLAIMS.

Ordinary claims and wet claims shall not exceed 60
feet by 60 feet for each person.

For 1 man . . 60 feet x 60 feet = 3,600 square feet
" 2 " . . 60 " x 120 " = 7,200 "
" 3 " . . 73 " x 146 " = 10,800 "
" 4 " . . 85 " x 170 " = 14,400 "
" 5 " . . 95 " x 190 " = 18,000 "
" 6 " . . 104 " x 208 " = 21,600 "
" 7 " . . 112 " x 224 " = 25,200 "
" 8 " . . 120 " x 240 " = 28,800 "
" 9 " . . 127 " x 254 " = 32,400 "
" 11 " . . 134 " x 268 " = 36,000 "
" 11 " . . 140 " x 280 " = 39,600 "
" 12 " . . 147 " x 294 " = 43,200 "

2. FORM OF CLAIMS.

Claims may be of any form, provided that no
ordinary, wet, or prospecting claim shall, except in the
case of spare ground between claims, exceed in length
twice the breadth thereof.

3. CLAIMS TO BE MARKED.

Claims shall be marked by substantial and con-
spicuous pegs standing not less than two feet above
the surface of the ground, or by trenches at least a
yard long at each corner thereof; or in the case of
river claims by marks not less than one foot in
length, to be cut upon the rocks above high flood
mark, and such pegs, trenches, or marks shall be main-
tained during the occupancy of the ground, provided
that any corner cannot be marked on account of
the nature of the ground, the peg, trench, or mark,
may be placed at the nearest practicable point.

4. SURPLUS GROUND TO BE FORFEITED.

If any person shall occupy a larger area of alluvial
ground than that to which he is entitled under these
regulations he shall forfeit the surplus measured from
any two pegs along a boundary line of the original
claim at the option of the party claiming the surplus,
unless in any special case such good cause shall be
shown as shall, in the opinion of the Warden, entitle
the prior occupant to the choice of ground, provided
that if any shaft, face, or works shall come within the
area of the surplus ground so forfeited, the party
claiming the ground shall pay compensation to the
original holder.

5. DOUBLE GROUND.

The Warden may, in his discretion, grant claims of
alluvial ground not exceeding twice the ordinary size
on being satisfied that, either from the quality of the
ground or any difficulty in working it, such extension
of area is necessary; but no such grant shall be made
until after application and the posting of notices, in
manner provided by section X.

6. FRONTAGE CLAIMS.

It shall be lawful for the Warden to grant registra-
tion upon application and the posting of notices, as
provided in section X., for frontage claims, having
the customary frontage prescribed by the regulations
relating to the size of claims, and a depth not
exceeding 1000 feet. The side boundaries of such