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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND,
NEW ZEALAND.
No.
£1.

District of Coromandel.
Date—

MINER'S RIGHT.
(Not transferable.)

Issued to
under the
provisions of "The Gold Fields Act, 1858,"
to be in force for one year—namely till

The holder of this Right is entitled to all
the privileges and subject to all the Rules and
Regulations which may from time to time be
in force fer regulating the management of
the Coromandel Gold Field.

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Extent of Claim.

The extent of ground that may be occupied
by any Miner shall be, whether for sinking,
surface digging, river working, tomming, or
cradling, or for sluicing on ground or plank,
or for mining on quartz reef—

For shallow sinking, i.e., under 30 feet
deep, 30 feet square per claim.
For deep sinking, i.e., above 30 feet deep,
50 feet square per claim.
For quartz mining, 50 feet along the reef,
by 300 feet in width.

Prospecting.

Persons who discover available lands for mining
shall be entitled to occupy, in addition to
their own individual claim—

If not more than two persons, one claim.
If more than two persons, two claims.

Association.

Any number of persons having Miners'
Claims, and working together in parties, or
associations, shall be entitled to hold such
claims contiguously, but so as not to exceed in
the whole the extent allowed for eight persons.

Space left between claims.

A space or wall of three feet in breadth for
shallow sinking, and six feet for deep must be
left between the boundaries of adjoining
claims.

River Mining.

The extent of ground that shall be allowed
to each claim for river or creek mining shall
be thirty-six feet in length frontage.

Watercourses may be diverted.

Any person may, by consent of the Resident
Magistrate, or Commissioner appointed for
that purpose, divert any stream or part of a
stream from any place where it is not at the
time required, to some other place where it
may be required, by the construction of a
dam and race, or otherwise.

Water-works not to be injured wilfully.

No person shall injure any race or dam, or
do any thing to obstruct the water, or to de-
prive the person who has diverted the water
of the use thereof.

And His Excellency, with the advice and
consent aforesaid, doth declare that this Order
shall take effect from and after the 30th day
of June, 1862.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of Executive Council.

NOTIFICATION.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 28th June, 1862.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the
Lieutenant-Governor and Legislative
Council of New Zealand intituled "The Native
Land Purchase Ordinance," Sess. vii, No. 19,
it is provided that if any person shall, after the
passing of such Ordinance, purchase, or by
writing or otherwise agree to purchase, any
estate or interest in land from any person of
the Native race, or shall by writing or other-
wise agree with any such person for the pur-
chase of the right of cutting timber or other
trees, or of the right of mining, or of the right
of pasturage, or for the use or occupation of
land: and, also, if any person who shall not
hold a License from the Government for that
purpose, shall, after the passing of such Ordi-
nance, be found using or occupying any land
not comprised within a grant from the Crown,
either by depasturing any sheep or cattle
thereon, or by residing thereon, or by erecting
any house or building thereon, or by clearing,
enclosing, or cultivating any part thereof, or
who shall be found without such License afore-
said, to have cut timber or other trees thereon,
or to have gotten any mineral therefrom; every
such person shall, upon conviction of any of the
offences hereinbefore-mentioned, forfeit and
pay any sum not less than £5, nor more than
£100, to be recovered in a summary way:

And whereas by Proclamation, dated 25th
June, 1862, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise of the powers in him vested by the
"Gold Fields Act, 1858," proclaimed a "Gold
Field" in the Coromandel district, the limits
whereof are in such Proclamation defined;

And whereas it is expedient that Licenses be
granted to enable mining operations to be
carried on upon land situate within the said
district but the Native title whereto has not
yet been extinguished:

His Excellency the Governor directs it to be
notified that from and after the thirtieth day of
June, 1862, the Government will grant
Licenses, authorising the holders thereof to mine
for gold or other minerals, within such portions
of the said Coromandel district (being lands
over which the Native title is not extinguished)
as shall be specified in each such License.

The Commissioner of Crown Lands at Coro-
mandel will receive applications for such
Licenses, and be authorised to issue the same in
the form subjoined.

By His Excellency's command,
DANIEL POLLEN,
In the absence of Mr. Fox.