Otago Provincial Gazette – 1870 – No. 646

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✨ Gold Mining Lease Conditions

(e.) Number of men to be employed.

Provided also that he or they the said lessee or lessees his or their executors administrators or assigns will and shall at all times during the continuance of this demise after the first six months employ in or about the mines and premises hereby demised a number of men being in the proportion of not less than one man to every full area of two acres of the lands hereby demised.

(f.) To furnish Returns, &c.

Provided also that he or they the said lessee or lessees his or their executors administrators or assigns shall and will at all times during the continuance of this demise furnish true and accurate half-yearly returns in the form of the schedule marked G in the Gold Mining Leases Regulations of Otago and certify to the same on oath to the Warden or other officer duly authorised in that behalf of the average number of men on or about the mines and premises hereby demised and shall from time to time whenever so required by the Warden surveyor or such other duly authorised officer up to the period when the full sum hereby agreed to be expended in or about the said mines and premises shall have been so expended furnish a true and accurate account certified as aforesaid of the amount at such date expended as aforesaid.

(g.) Not to work out of limits.

Provided also that the said lessee or lessees his or their executors administrators or assigns shall not nor will during the continuance of this demise work the said mines out of or beyond the limits and boundaries hereinbefore mentioned.

(h.) On Breach of covenants Lessor to re-enter and determine lease.

Provided lastly and it is hereby declared and agreed by and between the said parties hereto that in case the said lessee or lessees his or their executors administrators or assigns shall fail or neglect to perform and keep all and every of the covenants conditions or provisions and agreements hereinbefore contained and implied by virtue of the "Gold Fields Act 1866" or of any regulations made under the authority of the said Act or any other Act referring to leases for gold mining within the Province of Otago and which are in force at the time of the execution hereof it shall and may be lawful for the said lessor or any person duly appointed in that behalf forthwith or at any time or times thereafter to enter into and upon the land and premises hereby demised and thereby determine this lease.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk to the Executive Council.

Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Otago by Mills, Dick & Co., Stafford Street, Dunedin, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.