✨ Gold Fields Regulations
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
J. L. C. RICHARDSON, Superintendent.
Vol. IV.] SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1862. [No. 193.
RULES AND REGULATIONS
OF THE
OTAGO GOLD FIELDS.
WHEREAS, by warrant under the hand of Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand, dated at Auckland the Eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and issued under the seal of the said Colony by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof; and in exercise of the power and authority for that purpose in him vested. Did thereby delegate absolutely and without restriction unto me, John Larkins Cheese Richardson, as Superintendent of the Province of Otago, all the powers vested in him under or by virtue of “the Goldfields’ Act, 1858,” except the powers contained in sections seven, eight, fifteen, twenty-seven, and forty of the said Act, to have, hold, and exercise the powers within the Province of Otago thereby given.
Now, therefore, I, John Larkins Cheese Richardson, by virtue of the powers so delegated to me as aforesaid, do hereby issue the following Rules and Regulations.
Previous Regulations Cancelled.
The Rules and Regulations heretofore in force are hereby cancelled, except in so far as relates to that portion of the Goldfields which is included within the Mining Board District of Tuapeka; and the following Regulations are substituted in lieu thereof.
I. PRELIMINARY REGULATIONS.
1.—Interpretation Clause.
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 word “Warden” shall mean Warden, Commissioner, Resident Magistrate, or any other Officer entrusted with the superintendence of the Gold Fields, or any portion thereof, and holding a Commission duly empowering him to have charge thereof, and shall include “Warden and assessors,” except where it is otherwise specially provided.
The word “person” shall mean the holder of a Miner’s Right.
The words “worked and abandoned ground” shall mean any ground the whole or greater portion of which has been mined upon for gold, and abandoned.
The words “new gold workings” shall mean ground previously unworked, and capable of affording employment to at least one hundred miners.
Words importing the singular number shall include the plural number, and words importing the masculine gender shall include the feminine gender.
2.—The Miner’s Right.
Every person residing on a Gold Field and engaged in mining for gold, shall take out a Miner’s Right; such Miner’s Right to be carried on the person, and produced for inspection when demanded by the Warden or other...
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1862, No 193
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🏛️ Delegation of Goldfields Act Powers to Otago Superintendent
🏛️ Governance & Central AdministrationDelegation, Goldfields Act, Superintendent, Otago
- Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Superintendent of the Province of Otago
🗺️ Cancellation of Previous Gold Fields Regulations
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & SurveyRegulations, Cancellation, Gold Fields, Tuapeka
- John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Superintendent of the Province of Otago
🗺️ Preliminary Regulations for Otago Gold Fields
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & SurveyRegulations, Gold Fields, Interpretation, Miner’s Right
- John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Superintendent of the Province of Otago