THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETIE. 215
New Zealand this eleventh day
of June, in the year of Our
Lord, One thousand eight hun-
dred and sixty-three.
G. GREY.
By His Excellency's command,
ALFRED DOMETT.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

ORDER IN COUNCIL,
Establishing Regulations for the granting of
Gold Mining Leases in the Province of
Otago.
G. GREY.
AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT AUCKLAND,
THE 15TH DAY OF JUNE, 1863.
Present:—
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

W HEREAS it is provided by the Gold-
fields Act, 1858," that it shall be
lawful for the Governor in Council from time to
time to make such Regulations, not being
contrary to the provisions of the said Act, as
he shall think fit, for regulating the granting
of Leases for mining purposes, and the terms
and conditions on which such Leases shall be
granted, and such Regulations from time to
time to alter and abolish.

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Gover-
nor, in pursuance and exercise of the said
recited power and authority, doth hereby, with
the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony of New Zealand, make
the following Rules and Regulations for the
granting of Leases for Gold Mining within the
district of the Otago Gold-fields;

And doth further declare that this Order
shall take effect from the 15th day of June,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of Executive Council.

GOLD MINING LEASE REGULATIONS.

What Lands may be leased.

1. Auriferous Crown Lands in the Province
   of Otago may be leased under these Regula-
   tions, except;

(1.) The whole or any part of any land
which any person other than the ap-
plicant is entitled to occupy and ac-
tually does occupy for mining pur-
poses, or for residence, by virtue of a
miner's right or business license.

(2.) The whole or any part of any land in or
over which any person, other than the
applicant, has any interest or au-
thority other than those above men-
tioned, which he may lawfully use or
exercise for mining purposes, or for
discovering the existence of gold or
other metal or mineral.

(3.) Lands containing within their boun-..
daries any river, stream of permanent
water, or spring, which may be re-
quired for public purposes or for the
use of the miners generally.

2. Boundaries of Land applied for to be
   defined.
   Persons intending to apply for a lease of
   Auriferous Crown Lands shall, previous to
   making application as hereinafter directed,
   erect or cause to be erected at each angle of the
   land proposed to be leased, a post, three inches
   square, and standing at least three feet in height
   above the surface of the ground, and such posts
   shall be maintained at the expense of the appli-
   cant until the application shall have been granted
   or refused by the Governor.

3. Mode of Application.
   Application shall be made in the form in the
   Schedule hereunto annexed marked A., and
   shall be addressed in duplicate to the Warden
   of the Gold Field within which the land so ap-
   plied for is situated.

4. Applicant to make a deposit.
   At the time of applying for such lease the
   applicant must deposit with the Warden the
   sum of twenty pounds (£20) as a guarantee for
   the payment of any expenses which may be in-
   curred for the survey of the land applied for, or
   by reason of any objection to such application
   being allowed, and such Warden shall give to
   the applicant a receipt therefor, in the form in
   the Schedule hereunto annexed marked B., and
   any surplus which may remain over such ex-
   penses shall be returned to the appli-
   cant.

5. Official Survey.
   Upon receipt of such application and deposit,
   the Warden aforesaid shall, as soon as may be,
   direct a Surveyor to proceed to the land ap-
   plied for and to survey the same, and to report
   as to the area, boundaries and description there-
   of, the character of the ground, the likelihood
   of any river, creek, or permanent water spring,
   or artificial reservoir which may be included
   within the boundaries of the said land, being
   required for, or the feasibility of the same being
   applied to, public purposes, or for the use of the
   miners of the district generally, and also as to
   any claims to prior occupancy which shall come
   to his knowledge, enquiry as to which it shall
   be his duty to make, while making the said
   survey; and to furnish a plan of such land on
   a scale of sixteen inches to the mile, together
   with a tracing of so much of the general map
   of the district as will be sufficient to connect
   the particular area applied for with at least
   one trigonometrical station, or in the absence
   of any such, with some fixed point.

6. Surveyor to affix notice.
   The Surveyor shall, at the time of making
   the survey hereinbefore directed, place a notice,
   in the form in Schedule hereunto annexed mar-
   ked C., in some conspicuous place on the
   ground; and shall post a copy of such notice
   on outside of the Warden's office.

7. Priority of Application.
   In the event of more than one application
   being made for the same land, or any part
   thereof, such one of such applications as shall
   have been first left with the Warden shall be
   first considered; and in case any two or more
   of such applications shall be left with the War-
   den at the same time, it shall be in the discre-
   tion of the Governor to which of the appli-
   cants the lease shall be granted.