New Zealand Gazette – 1864 – No. 15

Page 171

✨ Gold Mining Regulations



Numb. 15.
171

NI SOIT QUI MAL
DIEU ET MON DROIT

The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1864.

ORDER IN COUNCIL,
Establishing additional Regulations for Gold
Mining on the Coromandel Gold Field.

G. Grey,
Governor.

At the Government House, at Auckland, the
nineteenth day of April, 1864.

Present:—

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by the "Gold
Fields Act, 1862," that it shall be
lawful for the Governor in Council, subject
to the provisions of the said Act, to make
Rules and Regulations relating to the terms
and conditions upon which Miners' Rights
shall be granted, and the forms of such
Miners' Rights, and of Licenses and Leases
to be issued under the said Act, and the
modes, times, and places of issue thereof;
and also touching the extent and position of
any claim, and the conditions under which
it shall be worked, held, assigned, or for-
feited, the application and use of machinery,
and all such other Rules and Regulations
relating to the mining under Miners' Rights
or otherwise in any Gold Field, as he may
deem most beneficial:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Go-
vernor, 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 additional Rules and Regula-
tions for the conduct of gold mining within
the District of the Coromandel Gold Field:

And doth further declare that this Order
shall take effect from the day of the date
hereof.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of Executive Council.

ADDITIONAL RULES AND REGULATIONS OF
THE COROMANDEL GOLD FIELDS.

Benefit or Injury done by holders of Claims by
the working of other Claims.

  1. In the case of the holders of any claim
    erecting machinery for pumping or baling
    water, and thereby benefiting the claims
    adjoining or near to such claim, it is hereby
    provided that the last-named claim holders
    shall, while absolutely working their claims,
    contribute a fair and reasonable sum weekly
    or otherwise to such water-baling machinery;
    such amount to be decided by two Assessors
    to be appointed by the owners of the said
    machinery, and two by the representatives
    of the claims alleged to have derived or be
    about to derive a benefit.

  2. If the owners of any claim by improper
    management or otherwise shall damage any
    claim or claims adjacent, the parties receiving
    such damage shall be entitled to compensa-
    tion for the same. And further, on the
    request of the owner or owners of any claim,
    who shall have reasonable grounds for sus-
    picion that their claim is receiving damage
    from the working of any claim adjoining, the
    Commissioner, or other person appointed by
    the Government to carry out these Regula-
    tions, shall grant permission for the in-
    spection of such Claim; and on proof of any
    damage likely to occur, the working of such
    claim shall be suspended until the case shall
    have been decided by two Assessors to be
    appointed by the owners of claims which
    have received or are liable to receive damage
    from improper workings, and two to be
    appointed by those parties who are supposed
    to be injuring such claims.



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🌾 Order in Council establishing additional Regulations for Gold Mining on the Coromandel Gold Field

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
19 April 1864
Gold mining, Coromandel, Regulations, Water pumping, Claim damage, Assessors, Commissioner
  • G. Grey, Governor
  • Forster Goring, Clerk of Executive Council