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once in every month to the Miners’ Association, Council, or Road Board to whom a subsidy is payable, setting forth the nature, extent, and result of operations during the previous month.

All measurement of work done under Class II. shall be made by a person appointed by the Miners’ Association, the County Engineer, Road Overseer of the district, or other person appointed by the local body, who will be required to certify to the voucher for payment.

The subsidy under Class I. and Class II. may be discontinued, if the Miners’ Association, Council, or Road Board think necessary, on one month’s notice of discontinuance being given to the party or parties.

Payments will be made monthly.

Applications (giving the full names and residences of each man of the proposed party or parties, and specifying the locality in which it is proposed to prospect) must be sent to the Miners’ Association, Council Chambers, or Road Board offices, and the application must be indorsed on the envelope, “Application for Prospecting, Class I.” (or “Class II.,” as the case may be).

PART XVI.—REWARDS FOR THE DISCOVERY OF NEW GOLDFIELDS.

161. The reward for the discovery of any new goldfield shall be paid in conformity with the following regulations:—

(a.) That the Council of any county, or, where the Counties Act is not in force, the Road Board, shall pay one moiety of the reward for the discovery of any new goldfield and the Government the other moiety, and if the said Council of any County or Road Board shall neglect or refuse to pay one moiety of such reward the Colonial Treasurer may pay the same and then deduct the amount so paid from any revenue that may be or become due and payable to such Council or Road Board: Provided that in no case shall the total amount of reward paid exceed the amount mentioned in these regulations.

(b.) For the discovery of a new goldfield, three miles from any workings, there shall be paid, at the expiration of six months from date of discovery, a reward of £100 per hundred miners, up to £500 for five hundred or more miners so employed.

(c.) For the recovery of a lead in proximity to the place where a lead has been lost, and has not been worked for a period of six months, a reward equal to one-half of the above rates;

And for the discovery of a new lead one mile from any lost lead a reward equal to two-thirds of the above rates.

(d.) “Workings” shall be construed to mean an area of ground upon which alluvial or quartz-mining operations are being carried on.

(e.) Distance shall be computed from any given point, measured in a direct line, from where gold-mining is being carried on to the site of the discovery.

(f.) Every application made for a reward for the discovery of any new goldfield within a mining district or gold-mining district shall be accompanied by a certificate from the Warden of the district in which the discovery has been made; or, if the discovery be outside any mining district or gold-mining district, then the certificate shall be signed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands of the land district in which the discovery has been made. Such certificate shall state the amounts paid by the local body, and that such payment has been made in accordance with these regulations.

(g.) In the event of any person discovering a payable goldfield beyond the jurisdiction of any County Council or Road Board, the Government shall recognise the application, and deal therewith in the same manner as if it had been made by a County Council or Road Board.

(h.) For the discovery of a payable diamond-field, lode of silver, or lode of tin, for every one hundred miners profitably employed thereon at the expiration of six months from date of discovery there shall be paid a reward of £100, up to £500 for five hundred or more miners so employed.

PART XVII.—PUDDLING-MACHINES.

162. Main Sludge-channel to be first constructed.—No person shall be permitted to erect a puddling-machine in any locality wherein puddling operations have not heretofore been carried on until a main sludge-channel shall have first been constructed. (Schedule 25.)

163. Main Sludge-channels to be approved by the Warden.—The position and course of all main sludge-channels, and the width and depth thereof, shall be subject to the approval of the Warden, who shall have power to remove, alter, and vary the same whenever it shall seem to him necessary so to do. And when any such channel shall be ordered by the Warden to be removed, altered, or varied at the instance of any person the expense of such removal, alteration, or variation shall be borne by the person at whose instance such removal, alteration, or variation was made.

164. Expense of Construction.—The expense of the construction of any such channel shall be borne by the persons then or afterwards using the same in proportion to the position of each machine relatively to the said channel, and payment of such proportion to the persons constructing the same shall be made prior to the granting of any certificate of registration. Any person desiring to discharge sludge into any main sludge-channel already constructed may be permitted by the Warden to do so on the same terms as provided for the use of tail-races.

165. Sludge-drains and -channels to be kept clear.—Main sludge-channels shall be kept clear and in good repair by the joint labour of the machine-owners in each locality, and the owner of each machine shall further keep clear and in good order the private sludge-drain connected with such machine, and on no pretence whatever shall the sludge of any main channel or private drain be permitted to overflow the banks or edges thereof.