THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 395
RULES AND REGULATIONS
OF THE
COROMANDEL GOLD FIELDS.

Interpretation.
Wherever the term "Commissioner" is
used in these Regulations, it shall be under-
stood to mean the Commissioner, Warden, or
Resident Magistrate, or any other officer en-
trusted with the superintendence of the gold
field, or any portion of it, and holding a com-
mission or appointment duly empowering him
to have charge thereof. The words "miner,"
"person," and "claim," shall be read as both
singular and plural.
The word "miner," as used in these Regu-
lations, shall mean an "authorised person,"
being the holder of a "Miner's Right," and no
other.
The word "claim " shall be taken to apply
to any authorised holding, but generally to
claims held under Miners' Rights.

Issue of Miners' Rights.

1. Miners' Rights shall be issued by an
   officer specially authorised in that behalf by
   the Governor, on payment of a fee of One
   Pound. Such Miner's Right to be carried on
   the person, and not transferable.

Miners' Rights to be shown when demanded.
2. Every holder of a Miner's Right must
exhibit the same on demand of any officer
duly authorised, or of any person holding a
Miner's Right.

On refusal to show Miner's Right, the owner
to lose protection.
3. Every holder of a Miner's Right re-
fusing to exhibit it when demanded by any
authorised person shall not be entitled to any
protection in the possession of his claim.

Extent and position of Claim.
4. The extent of ground that may be oc-
cupied by any person holding a Miner's Right
shall be, whether for sinking, surface digging,
river working, or cradling, or for sluicing
on ground or plank, or for mining on quartz
reefs :-

feet square.
For shallow sinking under 30 ft. deep 30
" deep from 30 ft. to 50 ft. 40
" " from 50 to 100 ft. 50
" " from 100 to 150 ft. 55
" " from 150ft. upwards 60
quartz mining, 50 ft. along the reef by
150 feet on each side from the centre
of the reef
river mining, 36 ft. frontage, with 12
feet of each bank allowed for the
convenience of forming races, but
which may be worked throughout.
A wall of 6 feet to be left between
such banks and any adjoining claim.
5. The Commissioner may grant a double
claim for alluvial or river mining, on ground
which has been already worked.

Space left between Claims.
6. A space or wall of 3 feet in breadth for
shallow sinking, and 6 feet for deep must be
left between the boundaries of adjoining claims,
which shall continue in its natural state. On
special application, any number of alluvial
claims may be united, half in front and half in
rear; and in such case the partition between
such united claims and the next shall be 6 feet
in width.

7. The wall being the common property of
   the claim holders between whose claims such
   wall may be situate, no party shall take down,
   mine into, or remove any such wall without
   obtaining the consent in writing thereto of the
   owners of adjoining claims. But the party so
   working or removing the said wall must secure
   the ground by placing props with good and
   sufficient caps and sole pieces, not more than 3
   feet apart along the entire length of the wall so
   worked or removed. But in case that some of
   the claim holders refuse to divide the wall with
   the owners of the adjoining claim, the final
   decision shall rest with the warden.

8. Any person taking up a claim shall do so
   immediately adjoining a previous one, with the
   usual passage, or leave at least a complete claim
   and passages between.

Claims to be staked out.
9. Every claim must be distinctly marked
by pegs driven firmly into the ground, one at
each corner thereof, and standing at least 2
feet above the surface of the ground, and all to
be kept clearly visible so long as the claim is
occupied; provided that when any corner can-
not be so marked on account of the nature of
the ground, such peg be fixed at the nearest
practicable point.

All Reef claims are required to be marked
off, due North and South, on the supposed
course of the reef; and the width of 150 feet
on each side of it to be taken East and West.
All boundaries on forest land to be well marked
on the nearest large trees, and their distance
from the pegs noted down, so as to prevent
future trespass or litigation.

All claims of whatever kind are required to
be surveyed as soon as possible, under instruc-
tions from the Commissioner, and at the cost of
the claimants, by a surveyor approved by the
Government. A plan of such survey to be
lodged in the Commissioner's office. Any
claims left unsurveyed, without a sufficient
reason, will receive no protection in case of dis-
putes arising as to their boundaries.

No fossicking or surface digging will be
allowed on another man's claim. Everything
found within the parallels of such a claim shall
belong, without restriction, to its owners.

No person shall remove any peg from a
claim in the occupation of any other person,
nor deface, destroy, or remove any notice
posted in accordance with the Gold Field
Regulations, nor interfere with any mark or
boundary.

Rewards for Prospecting.
10. Persons who discover available lands for
mining shall be entitled to occupy in addition
to their own individual claims :