1684
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 83

ROYAL DECREE.

At the instance of the Minister of Finance, and in accord
with the Council of Ministers, I make the following Decree
as Queen Regent of the kingdom, in the name of my august
son, King Alfonso XIII. :—

Article 1. In accordance with Article I. of the law of the
10th instant, providing extra revenues to cover the yearly
payment on the loan guaranteed by the Customhouse duties
during the next financial year, the following temporary and
interior duties on the revenue included in the direct and in-
direct taxes in the estimates are imposed. The temporary
surcharge will be at the rate of one-tenth of the assessed
amounts, the tariffs and the liquidations to realise the pay-
ments under the following headings of the estimates: In-
dustrial and commercial taxes, Probate duties, Royalty on
mines, Duties on titles, nobility, &c., Personal documents
(cedulas), Payments by the State, whether provincial or
municipal, Port dues in the Canary Islands, Duty on private
carriages, Duties on commercial bills, Customhouse duties,
Consular fees, Special tax on the manufacture of spirits, Tax
on sugar (foreign, colonial, or native), Special octroi duty on
colonial importations, Duties on the tariffs on travellers and
merchandise, Stamp duty, Duty on gunpowder and ex-
plosives. The tax on salaries and on articles of consumption,
including the special duties on spirits and salt, will also be
increased by a temporary surcharge of 2 per 100 on existing
tariffs.

Article 2. The surcharge of one-tenth, designated as an
interior tax on the Customhouse duties, is not to be con-
sidered as an alteration in the existing tariff, but as a tem-
porary addition to the total amount due on each declaration.
However, all the engagements entered into under the inter-
national tariff regulations will be respected.

Article 3. In all towns, whether the taxes on articles of
consumption are leased or administered directly, whether
they are collected by an agreement with the guilds or by
assessment of inhabitants, the temporary surcharge will be
levied on the amount paid to the Treasury under this head.
When the assessment agreed to between the Government
and the Municipal Corporations on the new leases produces
a higher income for the Treasury from the 1st of July next,
the temporary surcharge will be exacted only on that sum
necessary to complete the amount of the surcharge.

Article 4. When the tax to be levied on the tariff rates
for travellers and merchandise does not amount to 1
peseta, the surcharge will be excused.

Article 5. The temporary surcharge of 10 per cent. on the
tax on Government stamps will be paid by special stamps
of values corresponding to the amount of the stamps used;
excepting that of 0·75 pesetas, the surcharge of which will
be 5 cents.

Postage and telegraph stamps of all descriptions, as well
as stamps of less than 50 cents, and the stamps used for the
bonds of external and colonial debts, are excepted from
special surcharge.

Article 6. So long as the lease for the manufacture and
sale of explosives is not effected, the temporary surcharge
will only be exacted on the actual stamped duties.

Article 7. The special surcharge will be imposed at the
same time as the tax on which it is based, and the collection
will be made at the same time and by means of the same
receipt.

The income obtained from the temporary surcharge will
be entered under section 5 of the ordinary estimate receipts,
under the heading of "Special income to pay the annuity on
the loan guaranteed by the Customhouse duties," which
entry will be headed "Temporary surcharge."

Article 8. The Minister of Finance will give the necessary
orders to carry out this decree.

Given at the Palace on the 25th June, 1897.
MARIA CRISTINA.

JOAO NAVARRO REVERTER,
Minister of Finance.

Application to proclaim certain Rivers and Creeks, together
with all their Tributaries, Watercourses for the Deposit of
Tailings.

In pursuance of the powers vested in him by section 152
of "The Mining Act, 1891," His Excellency the
Governor directs it to be notified that application has been
made to him to proclaim the following rivers and creeks
in the Land District of Nelson to be watercourses into
which tailings, mining débris, and waste water of every kind
used in, upon, or discharged from any claim or licensed
holding adjacent to such watercourses shall be suffered to
flow or be discharged.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

That river known as the Maruia River, Inangahua
County, and all its tributaries, from its source in the
Spencer Ranges to its junction with the Buller River.

That river known as the Wharariki River, which flows
westerly from its source for a distance of about a mile and
a half to the ocean near Cape Farewell.

That river known as Mangamangarakau, which flows
north-westerly from its source for a distance of about eight
miles to West Wanganui Inlet; and also the several tribu-
taries thereof.

That creek known as Te Hapu Creek, which flows westerly
from its source for a distance of about a mile to the ocean.

That creek known as Waitaki Creek, which flows westerly
from its source for a distance of about half a mile to the
ocean.

That creek known as Ngutuhi Creek, which flows westerly
from its source for a distance of about a mile to the ocean.

That river known as the Paturau River, which flows
westerly from its sources in the Wakamarama Mountains
for a distance of about nine miles to the ocean; and also the
several tributaries thereof.

That creek known as Blowhole Creek, which flows
westerly from its source for a distance of about a mile to
the ocean near the Blowhole.

That creek known as Punipawa Creek, which flows westerly
from its source for a distance of about a mile to the
ocean.

That creek known as Sandhills Creek, which flows westerly
from its source for a distance of about seven miles
to the ocean; and also the several tributaries thereof.

That creek known as Slaty Creek, which flows westerly
from its source for a distance of about six miles to its
junction with Sandhill Creek; and also the several tribu-
taries thereof.

That creek known as Malone's Creek, which flows westerly
from its source for a distance of about four miles to
its junction with Sandhills Creek; and also the several
tributaries thereof.

That river known as Anatoti River, which flows westerly
from its source in the Wakamarama Mountains for a dis-
tance of about nine miles to the ocean; and also the several
tributaries thereof.

That river known as Turinawiwi River, which flows
westerly from its source in the Wakamarama Mountains for
a distance of about ten miles to the ocean; and also the
several tributaries thereof.

That river known as Anaweka River, which flows westerly
from its source for a distance of about five miles
to the ocean; and also the several tributaries thereof.

That river known as Raukawa River, which flows north-
westerly from its source for a distance of about two miles
to the ocean.

That river known as Big River, which flows westerly
from its source near Brown Hill for a distance of about
seventeen miles to the ocean; and also the several tribu-
taries thereof.

That river known as Kahurangi River, which flows westerly
from its source for a distance of about a mile to the
ocean.

That creek known as Seal Creek, which flows westerly
from its source for a distance of about a mile to the ocean
at Seal Bay.

That river known as Waimori River, which flows westerly
from its source for a distance of about two miles to the
ocean at Waimori Bay.

That creek known as Waterfall Creek, which flows westerly
from its source for a distance of about a mile and a
half to the ocean.

That river known as the Heaphy River, which flows
westerly from its source near Mount Domett for a distance
of about twenty miles to the ocean; and also the several
tributaries thereof.

That river known as Kararoa River, which flows westerly
from its source for a distance of about five miles to the
ocean.

That river known as Wekakura River, which flows westerly
from its source near Mount Domett for a distance
of about eleven miles to the ocean; and also the several
tributaries thereof.

That river known as Kohai-hai River, which flows
westerly from its source for a distance of about eleven miles
to the ocean; and also the several tributaries thereof.

That creek known as Blackwater Creek, which flows
northerly from its source for a distance of about two miles
to the ocean.

That river known as the Mokihinui River, which flows
northerly and westerly from its source near Wangapeka Pass
for a distance of about thirty miles to the ocean; and also
the several tributaries thereof.

That river known as the Ngakawhau River, which flows
northerly and westerly from its source for a distance of
about twelve miles to the ocean; and also the several tribu-
taries thereof.

That creek known as Dee Creek, which flows westerly and
northerly from its source in the Brunner Range until it
discharges into the Buller River; and also the several tribu-
taries thereof.