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point to search the land so occupied for a continuation of the said auriferous deposit.

4. Auriferous Areas may be Worked.

If any residence area shall be proved to be auriferous, the Warden may, upon application, order the whole or any part thereof to be given up for mining purposes to such persons as he shall nominate: Provided that the original occupier shall be entitled to one full claim therein.

5. Compensation to be paid.

In all cases compensation for actual damage or loss shall be estimated by assessors, and paid to the occupier of such area by the persons desirous of mining thereon, prior to their taking possession thereof.

6. Conditions of Working.

The Warden shall make such orders relative to the mode of working the ground, the restoration of the soil, and other conditions as he may deem necessary or desirable.

7. Transfer or Assignment.

The right and interest in any area occupied under a Residence Certificate may be transferred or assigned by the holder thereof, but such transfer or assignment shall, in all cases, be registered with the Warden, and endorsed on the original certificate.

8. Registration Fees.

The fees payable for registering any such application shall be five shillings (5s.), and the fee for registering any transfer or assignment shall be two shillings and sixpence (2s. 6d.)

FORM OF NOTICE REFERRED TO.

No.......... District of...................... 186

I hereby give notice that I desire to occupy for Residence ... (state the extent) ... of land, situate at ................................, and that I have this day marked the corners of such land with (posts or trenches), in conformity with the Regulations herein made and provided.

Signature of the applicant, ............................... and the number and date of his Miner’s Right: ....................

ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS RELATING TO PROTECTION.

2A. Information to the holders of Miners’ Rights.

When any claim is under protection for a longer period than seven days, the occupier thereof shall post and at all times maintain on some conspicuous part of the said claim, a board not less than nine inches square, with the word “PROTECTED” and the number of his Certificate painted legibly thereon.

ALTERATION OF REGULATION RELATING TO LICENSES.

1A. Business Licenses.

The first Section of Regulation No. X. is cancelled, and the following is substituted in lieu thereof:—

Every person engaged in trade or business of any kind within the limits of the Gold Field, shall obtain from the Warden a Business License, for which he shall pay the sum of five pounds (£5) annually, and shall be entitled to occupy an area not exceeding 800 square feet, the frontage whereof shall not exceed 20 feet.

Given under my hand, this twenty-first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

A PROCLAMATION

Altering the limits of Gabriel’s District of the Gold Field within the Province of Otago, and prescribing in what manner erroneous Returns of Elections of Members of the Mining Board of the said District shall be corrected.

By His Honor John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Esquire, Superintendent of the said Province.

WHEREAS, by the “Gold Fields Act, 1858,” it is amongst other things enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, by Proclamation, to declare any Gold Field, or any part thereof, containing not less than one hundred persons holding Miners’ Rights, or Leases, to be a district for the purpose of forming a Mining Board with the powers and authority therein described, and to declare the name of such district, and define the limits thereof, and from time to time to alter such limits and make others, and to revoke such Proclamation, if he shall think fit. And it is also thereby enacted, that the Governor, by Order in Council, shall among other things from time to time, prescribe in what manner the election of members of each such Mining Board shall be conducted, and erroneous returns of such elections shall be corrected.

And whereas, by warrant under the hand of His Excellency 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, Thomas Gore Browne, the Governor