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NELSON GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

4. PROSPECTING CLAIM.

Any person discovering a new reef and being desirous of obtaining an increased area thereon, shall mark off a claim, according to the subjoined scale, and shall immediately report such discovery to the Warden, and the ground so marked off and applied for shall be protected until the Warden or Mining Surveyor shall have visited the ground, and the application finally dealt with. Provided always that the increased grant be not given to more than six persons comprising the party.

SCALE.

Distance—Half a mile from any quartz workings, 100 feet along the reef x 600 feet.

One mile from any quartz workings, 110 feet along the reef x 600 feet.

Two miles from any quartz workings, 120 feet along the reef x 600 feet.

Ten feet per man along course of reef shall be added for every additional mile up to 10 miles.

5. OCCUPATION.

All prospecting claims shall be held by one man remaining on the ground during working hours until the application is dealt with, three days after which the claim must be fully occupied.

6. ASSISTED PROSPECTING.

The Warden may, if he think fit, grant a prospecting claim to the actual discoverers of a reef, conjointly with persons who have assisted them in prospecting either with contributions or otherwise, although the said persons may not have been on the ground prior to the granting thereof.

7. NAMES OF CLAIMS.

Every quartz claim surveyed and registered shall have a name by which such claim shall be distinguished.

8. ORDINARY QUARTZ CLAIMS.

In ordinary quartz claims each holder of a Miner's Right shall be allowed to hold 80 feet along the course or supposed course of any reef by a width of 600 feet, and no claim shall exceed 960 feet x 600 feet, or twelve men's ground. In marking off such claims no miner shall be allowed to mark off more than two men's ground, and such ground shall be fully occupied between the hours of twelve and two on the day following the marking off, after which, until registration is granted, at least one man shall be on the claim, and there shall also be maintained upon one of the corner posts a list containing the names and numbers of miners' rights of the shareholders, and within forty-eight hours of the time of marking off the shareholders in the said claim shall make application for survey and registration in form as set forth in schedule, and shall also make the deposit prescribed by Clause 12 of these regulations.

9. OCCUPATION OF QUARTZ CLAIMS.

In all quartz claims containing not less than four men's ground it shall be lawful for the registered owners thereof to work, hold, and occupy the same for three months from the day on which such claim was first occupied by them with half the number of men otherwise required to work, hold, and occupy the same.

10. EXTENDED QUARTZ CLAIMS.

Where ground has been fairly tested, and abandoned for a period of three months, the Warden may, upon application, grant an extended claim, and allow for each miner a length of 100 feet along the line of reef by a width of 600 feet, provided always that no such claim shall exceed 12 men's ground. All such claims must be occupied in the same manner as that prescribed for the occupation of ordinary quartz claims.

11. TEMPORARY AMALGAMATION.

It shall be lawful for the shareholders in any two or more adjoining claims, the area of which shall not in the aggregate exceed 1920 feet along the course or supposed course of the reef, not having found the reef to amalgamate such claims temporarily for the purpose of mining for any reef or supposed reef at their joint expense and under their joint management until the discovery of a payable auriferous reef shall be effected, and under the aforesaid circumstances, and until such discovery, the bona fide working of any one of such amalgamated claims shall be deemed a legal working of the whole of them. The claim selected for work must be worked night and day until the reef is discovered or amalgamation ceases. Amalgamation shall cease when the reef is intersected, or if the "working claim" be idle three consecutive days, or if the parties withdraw by mutual consent. The claims must be fully occupied six days after amalgamation ceases. During amalgamation each claim so amalgamated shall post and maintain a notice having the word "Amalgamated" legibly written upon a board on some conspicuous place on the claim, shaft, or tunnel.

Upon such temporary amalgamation being effected, notice in writing thereof shall be given to the Warden, who shall thereupon issue a certificate to the applicants.

12. SURVEY.

All quartz claims taken up under these regulations (excepting prospecting areas) must be surveyed and registered in the Warden's Court, and a deposit of £5 to cover costs of survey shall be lodged with the Warden within seven days of date of application, who shall, after deducting the costs of survey and registration, return to the applicants for the claim the balance, if any, of the deposit.

Upon an application for survey being lodged with the Warden he shall direct the Surveyor to survey the claim applied for, and the Surveyor shall, within 14 days from the date of the said application, survey the same, and he shall make and maintain for inspection in the Warden's office a plan of the several lines of reef within his district, and shall define upon such plan the position of each claim surveyed, and, upon the receipt of a fee of 10s., shall supply to any person requiring the same a plan of the claim with a tracing of so much of the general map of the district as will be sufficient to connect the said plan with at least one trigonometrical station, or in absence of any such station, with some fixed point, the same to be on a scale not less than five chains to the inch.

SCALE OF FEES.

Survey fee for any quartz claim, £2.
Cutting lines, 2s. per chain.
Travelling, 1s. 6d. per mile one way.