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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 31

ficial 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 dis-
trict generally; also as to any claims to prior
occupancy, respecting which he shall make in-
quiry while making the survey; and such report
shall be accompanied by a plan of the land ap-
plied for on the scale of two chains to the inch,
showing whether the land is applied for on or
below or both on and below the surface, together
with a map of so much of the district within
which the land shall lie, on the scale of 2in. to a
mile, as will suffice for showing the situation of
the particular area applied for with respect to at
least one fixed point in the district.

34. The said surveyor shall, after having ob-
    tained such direction as aforesaid, proceed with
    all reasonable speed to carry out the same, and he
    shall also mark out the land applied for, by fixing
    at each angle thereof, or as near as possible
    thereto, and in or near the middle of the side
    lines thereof, a sufficiently distinguishing and
    distinctive mark, standing at least 3ft. above the
    surface of the ground; and he shall also mark
    out that portion of the surface of the said land in
    respect of which he shall consider the license
    applied for ought to be effective, both on and
    below the surface, by fixing at each angle of such
    portion, or as near as possible thereto, and in or
    near to the middle of each of the boundary-lines
    thereof, another sufficiently distinguishing mark,
    distinctively different from the mark hereinbefore
    mentioned, standing at least 3ft. above the sur-
    face of the ground; and shall securely affix upon
    some convenient place within the boundaries
    of the land applied for a notice, dated on the
    day of the completion of the survey, in the
    form of Schedule 9 hereto; and shall also, as
    soon as he conveniently can after having made
    the survey, post a similar notice, but altered as by
    the said schedule is directed, and dated on the
    same day as the notice to be posted on the ground
    as aforesaid, on the outside of his office, and at
    the post-office nearest to the land applied for,
    or, if there shall be a Warden’s Court nearer to
    the said land than such post-office, then at such
    Warden’s Court.

35. Objections.—Any person objecting to the
    issue of such license to any applicant shall, within
    twenty-one clear days after the date of the notice
    to be posted on the land by the surveyor as afore-
    said, lodge with the Warden, and also forward to
    the applicant, at the address stated in such notice
    posted as aforesaid, full notice in writing of all
    objections intended by him to be taken against
    the issue of such license to the applicant.

36. Every person so objecting shall, at the time
    of lodging the notice of his objections with the
    Warden, deposit with the Receiver of Gold

Revenue for the district, or, if there be no such
Receiver, with the Warden, the sum of £20, to be
disposed of in such manner as the Warden shall
direct, in satisfaction, so far as the same will extend,
of all expenses to which the applicant shall, with-
out sufficient reason, be put by reason of such
objections, in case the same shall not be prose-
cuted or shall fail; and such Receiver shall give
to the person paying the said sum a receipt there-
for, in the form in Schedule 10 hereto; and in
case there shall be no such expenses, or, if there
shall be any, then subject to the payment thereof,
the said sum shall be refunded to the person
objecting.

37. Inquiry into Applications and Objections.—
    After the expiration of twenty-one clear days
    allowed for objections, the Warden shall hear the
    application, and shall decide whether the applicant
    shall have a license granted to occupy the land
    applied for or not, and immediately after the
    hearing shall inform the Commissioner of Crown
    Lands for the district in which the said land is
    situate, whether the said application has been
    granted or refused.

38. All costs and expenses incurred by or on
    behalf of or by direction of the Crown, by reason
    of the withdrawal of any application for a license,
    shall be considered expenses within the meaning
    of the clause hereof.

39. The parcel of land granted under a mineral
    license shall be in the form of a parallelogram as
    nearly as practicable, and the same shall be
    described in the license by accurate boundary-
    lines.

40. The term of the license shall not exceed
    twenty-one years.

41. The area of land for all licenses under this
    Part of these regulations shall be (except in
    special cases hereinafter provided for) an area of
    not less than one acre or more than three hundred
    and twenty acres.

42. Licenses.—All licenses under this Part of
    these regulations shall be designated “mineral
    licenses,” and shall apply to all lands which con-
    tain ironstone, tin, copper, lead, antimony, zinc,
    arsenic, mercury, platinum, and other metals and
    minerals, and also all l? .as which contain the ores
    of these and other r .tals not previously enume-
    rated (except go’ and silver).

43. Any s’ a license which shall be granted
    shall cont’..1 such covenants, conditions, reserva-
    tions, ’.nd exceptions as the Warden in each
    case shall approve, having regard to the special
    r .ses herein provided for.

44. Registration of Assignment.—Every sale or
    assignment of any licensed holding for mining
    purposes, or of any interest therein, shall be
    registered at the Warden’s office.

45. Withdrawal of Application.—Any applicant
    for a licensed holding may withdraw his applica-