Mining Regulations and Advertisements




X. LICENSES.

5.—Sites to be marked by pegs.

Occupants of sites for business purposes, shall place and maintain at each frontage corner of such site, a peg not less than two inches square, and standing at least one foot above the surface.

6.—Space to be left between buildings.

A space of four feet shall at all times be left unoccupied between sites occupied for business purposes.

7.—Registration of sites.

Business sites may be Registered with the Warden for ten days, whilst the holder is engaged in preparing for the occupancy thereof, and the fee for such Registration shall be five shillings; such Registration may be renewed by the Warden for an additional period of ten days, and every such renewal shall be endorsed on the certificate, and recorded in the Registration book.

8.—Occupancy of sites.

Business sites can only be held or occupied by holders of business licenses, and no site can be held unoccupied for more than twenty-four hours, unless the same shall be Registered as provided in Section 7.

9.—Information to the public.

When any business site has been registered, the holder thereof, shall post and maintain thereon a board, not less than nine inches square, with the word “Registered,” and the date and number of such Registration legibly painted or written thereon.

10.—Transfer or assignment of Licenses.

A Business License may be transferred or assigned by the holder within the District for which it was originally granted: Provided that such transfer or assignment shall be Registered with the Warden; and the fee for such Registration shall be ten shillings.

XI. GENERAL REGULATIONS.

7 A.—Notices to be posted at the Warden’s Offices.

Copies of all notices given in conformity with these Regulations shall be posted by the Warden at his office, and exhibited on the outside thereof during the currency of such notice: Provided that non-compliance with this rule shall not invalidate the proceedings in relation to any application.

1 A.—Throwing earth or tailings on claims.

No person shall throw or cause to be thrown upon any claim other than his own, any earth, stones, gravel, tailings, or any other substance, whereby the proper and efficient working of such claim may be stopped or impeded.

XIV. EXTENDED CLAIMS.

7.—Sluicing Claims in worked and abandoned ground.

For Sluicing Claims in worked and abandoned ground, the Warden may grant an extent of ground not exceeding treble the ordinary area.

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, the sixteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON, Superintendent.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 22nd January, 1863.

ABSTRACT OF ADVERTISEMENTS from the “Provincial Government Gazette,” dated 21st January, 1863. All tenders must be lodged by twelve o’clock noon:—

NATURE OF WORK, &C. DATE TO WHICH TENDERS CAN BE RECEIVED AT THIS OFFICE, &C.
Meeting in Court-house, Tokomairiro, to elect wardens for Waihola Hundreds, 2 p.m. 19th February
Ditto, North Tokomairiro 20th „
Ditto, South Tokomairiro 21st „

By order,
THOMAS DICK, Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 4th February, 1863.

ABSTRACT OF ADVERTISEMENTS from the “Provincial Government Gazette,” dated this day. All tenders must be lodged by twelve o’clock noon:—

NATURE OF WORK, &C. DATE TO WHICH TENDERS CAN BE RECEIVED TILL 12 NOON AT THIS OFFICE, &C.
Joseph Chadwick and Thomas Allan Lascelles’s, applications for Auctioneers’ Licenses to be considered, 2 p.m. 19th February
Election of school house, East Taieri 24th „
Erection of a Town Board for Oamaru, Court-house at noon 26th „
Claims for land in Warepa, Block 2, and Clarendon, Block 7, to be lodged at Land Office 28th „

By Order,
THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

February 5th.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 11th February, 1863.

ABSTRACT of Advertisements from the Provincial Government Gazette, of this day’s date:—

NATURE OF WORK, &C. TENDERS TO BE LODGED AT THIS OFFICE BY 12 NOON ON
Oats and Oaten Hay for Police Stations, Dunedin, Tokomairiro, Dunstan, Tuapeka, Mataura, and Queenstown 20th February
Court House, Hawkesbury 24th „
Vessels carrying ballast to be marked so as to show tonnage 9th March

N.B.—Designs for Gaol, &c, to be received until delivery in Otago of the Mail which leaves Tasmania on or about 23rd February, although the same does not arrive on or before 2nd March.

By order,
THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.



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