✨ 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, SATURDAY, NOV. 27, 1852. No. 29.
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 issued-
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🌾 Publication of Provisional Regulations and Agreement for Coromandel Gold Field
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- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary
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