THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Form of Double, Extended, and Prospecting Claims
in Alluvial Ground.

20. Double, extended, and prospecting claims in
    alluvial ground may be of any form, provided that no
    such claim shall, except as provided in section 21,
    exceed in length twice the breadth thereof, unless
    otherwise specially sanctioned by the Warden.

Spare Ground.

21. Any holder or holders of Miners' Rights may
    occupy any spare ground between two or more
    claims, or between any claim and old worked and
    abandoned ground, and such spare ground may be of
    any form, provided that it shall not exceed in area
    the number of superficial feet allowed by these
    Regulations.

V.—APPLICATIONS AND GRANTS.

Notices to be Posted on Application.

22. Any person desirous of obtaining a registered
    right to any of the under-mentioned claims, rights, or
    privileges, shall, after marking the same, give notice to
    the Warden and to all persons whose interests will
    obviously be affected, in the form provided in the
    Schedule hereto, or to the like effect, and shall post
    and maintain for fourteen clear days copies of such
    notices in such conspicuous places as are hereinafter
    more particularly specified :—

Water-race.
Drainage Area.
Tail-race.
Branch Race.
Flood Race.
Sludge Channel.
Main Tail-race.
Alteration or Extension of a Race.
Diversion of the Course of a Creek or River.
Tramway or Shoot for Mining Purposes.
Dam or Reservoir.
Puddling Machine.
Amalgamation of Claims.
Residence Area.
Tunnel.
Protection for more than fourteen days, and
Renewal.
Special Site for Machinery, or for any other
Mining Purpose.
Double Claim.
Extended Claim.
Prospecting Area.
Ordinary Quartz Claim.

Notices to contain Particulars.

23. Every notice must contain the name of each
    member of the party applying, together with the
    number and date of his Miner's Right, and there
    shall also be set forth in the notice a statement of
    the time and place at which the application and
    objections (if any) will be heard and decided.

Where Notices are to be Posted.

24. Notices of application for any race, tramway,
    or diversion of a creek must be posted at each end of
    the proposed race, tramway, or diversion, and at each
    separate source of a water-race.

Notice of application for a tunnel must be posted
at the proposed mouth of the tunnel.

Any other notice must be posted on the claim, or
the site of the right or privilege to which the appli-
cation refers, and in all cases one copy of each notice
must be left at the Warden's office.

Objections.

25. Any person objecting to the grant of any
    claim, right, or privilege for which application has
    been made, shall give notice in writing to the Warden
    and to the applicant, and shall appear either person-
    ally or by agent to substantiate his objection at the
    time and place appointed for the hearing.

Priority of Application.

26. If more than one application shall have been
    made for the same claim, right, or privilege, the pre-
    ference shall be given to the prior application, but if
    two or more applications be made on the same day
    for the same claim, right, or privilege, the priority of
    right may be decided by lot.

Hearing and Granting.

27. At the time and place appointed for the hear-
    ing of any application for any of the claims, rights, or
    privileges specified in section 22, the name of the
    applicant shall be called and the application and
    objections (if any) heard, and if no valid objection has
    been lodged, and if the Warden sees no valid objec-
    tion, he may grant the application upon such terms
    as he may think necessary or desirable for the public
    good; and the same shall be registered and a certifi-
    cate of registration, or in the case of a water-race a
    license, shall be issued to the applicant.

VI.—REGISTRATION.

Compulsory Registration.

28. Every claim, right, or privilege that may be
    granted by a Warden upon application, shall be held
    to be granted under the condition that a license or
    certificate of registration shall be taken out by the
    grantee within fourteen days from the day of the
    granting of the license, and in case the grantee shall
    fail to take out such license or certificate the grant
    shall lapse.

Permissive Registration.

29. All claims, rights, and privileges, mining part-
    nerships, and agreements between holders of Miners'
    Rights or Business Licenses may be registered.

Registration of Transfers.

30. Any claim, right, or privilege held under these
    regulations, and any share or interest therein, may be
    transferred or assigned, but in all cases where it is
    provided that any such claim, right, or privilege must
    originally be registered, the transfer or assignment
    thereof must also be registered and noted on the
    back of the original certificate or license.

Registration Fees.

31. The fee payable upon every registration or
    renewal of registration, and upon every water license
    issued under these regulations, shall be one shilling.

Searches.

32. Any person requiring any information from
    the Registration Books in the Warden's Office may
    obtain the same on payment of a fee of one shil-
    ling.

VII.—PROSPECTING.

Discovery to be Reported.

33. Any person discovering new gold workings and
    being desirous of obtaining an increased area thereon
    shall mark off a prospecting claim, as provided in
    Regulation II., and shall immediately report such
    discovery with full particulars to the Warden, and
    the ground so marked off shall be protected until
    the Warden shall have finally refused or granted the
    claim; but the Warden may, if he think fit, refrain
    from granting or refusing such claim until the ground
    shall have been visited by himself or by some person
    appointed by him.