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SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1878.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1878.

Regulations under "The Mines Act, 1877."

NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the fifty-first section of "The
Mines Act, 1877," it is enacted that it shall
be lawful for the Governor, subject to the provisions
of the said Act, from time to time to make, alter,
amend, and revoke rules and regulations for all or
any of the purposes thereinafter enumerated:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby make the following Rules
and Regulations for the several mining districts con-
stituted under the said Act, and for such mining
districts as may be hereafter constituted and ap-
pointed under the said Act.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this tenth day of January,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight.

J. T. FISHER.

I.—PRELIMINARY REGULATION.
Interpretation Clause.

1. In the construction and for the purposes of
   these Regulations, the following terms shall, if not
   inconsistent with the context or subject-matter, have
   the respective meanings hereby assigned to them
   (that is to say)—

The words "Mining Registrar" or "Registrar"
shall include the person charged with the care or
custody of the registration books in the War-
den's office.

"Working hours" shall mean between 8 a.m. and
12 noon and between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. on any
working day except Saturday, when working
hours shall be between 8 a.m. and 12 noon only.

The words "ordinary claim" shall mean any
mining claim in alluvial ground, except river
dredging, wet, extended prospecting, frontage,
and sea-beach claims.

"Ordinary quartz claims" shall mean all quartz
claims except prospecting areas and prospecting
quartz claims.

"River or creek claims" shall mean all claims in
the beds of rivers or permanent streams.

"Dredging claims" shall mean claims in the beds
of rivers or permanent streams that shall be
taken up to be worked by dredging.

"Wet claims" shall mean claims in flooded ground
which cannot be worked without appliances for
drainage, and defined as such by the Warden.

The words "tail-race" shall mean a tail-race con-
structed for the purpose of drainage, or for the
discharge of tailings.

The words "ground-sluice" shall mean a race con-
structed for the purpose of saving gold.

The words "quartz reef" shall include any leader
or vein of quartz.

The words "Schedule hereto," and "form pre-
scribed," shall mean the Schedule appended to
these Regulations, and the form in such Schedule
appropriate to the application or other matter
or to the like effect.

The word "protection" shall mean exemption
from forfeiture under these Regulations.

The words "new gold workings" shall mean
ground previously unworked.

Words importing the singular number shall in-
clude the plural number, and words importing
the plural number shall include the singular
number, and words importing the masculine
gender shall include the feminine gender.

Miners' Rights and Business Licenses.

2. Miners' Rights and Business Licenses shall be
   issued only by Receivers of Revenue or other persons
   duly authorized in that behalf, and may be signed by
   any such Receiver or other authorized person, or by
   any Warden. Such Miners' Rights and Business
   Licenses to be produced for inspection when de-
   manded by the Warden or other officer, or by any
   person duly authorized in that behalf in writing by
   the Warden.

II.—CLAIMS TO BE MARKED.
How to Mark Claims.

3. Every claim, except as hereinafter provided, shall
   be marked at each corner by a peg not less than two
   inches in diameter, or cairn of stones or stack of sods
   not less than two feet high, and by trenches not
   less than six inches in depth and five feet in length