✨ Coromandel Gold Field Regulations
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
PROVINCE OF NEW ULSTER.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature
thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons
to whom they may relate.
By His Excellency's Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.
VOL. V. AUCKLAND, FRIDAY, NOV. 26, 1852. No. 28.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
26th November, 1852.
HIS Excellency the LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR
has been pleased to direct that the following Provisional Regulations and Agreement should be published for general information,
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
COROMANDEL GOLD FIELD.
PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS.
WHEREAS arrangements have been
made by the Colonial Government
with the Native Owners of certain portions of
Land in the neighbourhood of Coromandel, in
the district of Auckland, with a view to the
management of the Gold Field which has recently been discovered therein, His Excellency
the Lieutenant-Governor has been pleased,
with the advice of the Executive Council, to
direct the publication of the following Provisional Regulations, under which Licenses may
be obtained to dig, search for, and remove alluvial Gold, on and from the portions of Land
above referred to, as also on and from the demesne Land of the Crown in the said district:
And whereas, with a view to render the remaining portions of the said Gold Field
speedily available to the public generally, and
on equal terms, it is expedient that no person
shall, without due authority, dig, search for,
or remove Gold on or from such portions of the
said Gold Field until they shall have been
placed under the management of the Colonial
Government, and the public are hereby warned
that no such License as aforesaid will at any
time hereafter be granted to any person who
shall, without due authority, dig, search for,
or remove Gold from any portion of the said
Gold Field which shall not have been made
subject to the Government Regulations :—
Regulations for the working of matrix Gold
combined with Quartz or any other rock, remaining in its original place of deposit, will be
published as soon as conveniently may be,
and as occasion may require.
Regulations for the working of Gold on
Land alienated by the Crown in fee simple,
will shortly be made public.
All alluvial or matrix Gold procured without due authority, within the district aforesaid,
will be liable to be seized, in whose possession
soever it may be found.
From and after the 1st day of December next,
no person will be permitted to dig, search for,
or remove Gold on or from any Land, public
or private, within the said district, without
taking out a License in the form hereunto annexed.
Every such License shall continue in force
for one calendar month, and shall commence
and take effect on the 1st day of the month in
which it shall be dated.
For every such License there shall be paid,
in advance, the sum of one pound ten shillings,
But if a License be taken out after the 15th of
the month, one-half only of the said fee will
be charged ; provided that permits already is-
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Gold mining, Coromandel, Licensing, Regulations, Auckland, Crown Land
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary