FORM OF NOTICE
(District and date.)

Whereas (name of applicant) has applied to me for a grant of this land as a special site for
(erecting machinery,) or stacking tailings,
thereon; and whereas the Mining Surveyor has this day surveyed and marked the boundaries of such site, this is to give Notice that any objections to the issue of a certificate of Registration therefor must be lodged at my office on or before (specify date), upon which day I shall proceed to hear and dispose of such application.

Signature of Warden.

Posted by me this day of 186 .
(Signature of Mining Surveyor.)

• If machinery, state for what purpose.
• Not less than 7 clear days from date of survey.

3.—Interference with Pegs and Notices, &c.
No person shall alter the position of any trench nor remove any peg from a claim in the occupation of any other person, nor deface, destroy, or remove any notice posted in accordance with these Regulations, nor interfere with any mark or boundary.

4.—Stacking Auriferous Substances.
Any person wishing to retain possession of auriferous substances, may have the same protected for a period not exceeding three months, provided that such substance is properly stacked on ground not supposed to be adapted to mining purposes, and that a board, with the owner’s name, address, and date of stacking, legibly written or painted thereon, be posted close to such stack.

5.—Jumping Forbidden.
No person shall take possession of any claim, race, dam, machine, or any other right or privilege whatsoever, (unless the same shall have been absolutely relinquished) without first obtaining the consent of the owners, or the authority of the Warden.

6.—Penalty may be substituted for Forfeiture.
In all cases wherein forfeiture is decreed by these Regulations, it shall be lawful for the Warden to substitute a monetary penalty in lieu thereof, and to allow thereout a sufficient sum to defray any reasonable expenses incurred by the plaintiff in the prosecution of his suit.

7.—Compensation may be Adjudged.
In all cases of forfeiture, the Warden may adjudge compensation to be paid by the person to whom any claim or right may be awarded to the former owner or holder thereof, and to a point a time within which such payment shall be made; provided that such compensation shall not exceed in amount two-thirds of the estimated value of any work actually performed thereon or in connection therewith.

8.—Permission to enter Claims.
The Warden shall have power to authorise the entry of any surveyor or assessor into and upon any claim for the purpose of measuring the depth of any shaft, or the dip, direction, inclination, or length of any tunnel or drive.

9.—Notices to contain full particulars.
All notices tendered or posted in conformity with these Regulations must contain the name in full of each member of the party, together with date, number, and place of issue of his Miner’s Right.

10.—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.

XV.—GENERAL REGULATIONS.

1.—Interference Prohibited.
No person shall, under any pretence whatever, damage, destroy, or otherwise interfere with any race, tail-race, dam, sluice-channel, or drain, machine, or other appliance connected therewith nor with any claim, unless the sanction of the owners thereof, or the authority of the Warden, shall first have been obtained for such interference.

2.—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.

4.—Registration.
At the expiration of the time specified in the Notice as aforesaid, the Warden may, if there be no valid objection thereagainst, issue a Certificate of Registration for the site applied for, and the fee for such registration shall be five shillings.

5.—Restriction of Sites.
Special sites shall not be granted for any land which is known to be auriferous, unless the same has been worked out and abandoned, nor for land which is in the line or direction of any workings, or which is or may probably be required for business purposes.

6.—Limitation of Area.
The area granted to any person or party as a special site shall in no case exceed a quarter of an acre.

7.—Discovery of Auriferous Deposits.
If any auriferous deposits shall be traced to the boundaries of, or discovered upon a special site, such site shall be dealt with in the same manner as provided by Sections 3, 4, and 5 of Regulation XI., relating to residence; provided always that the compensation directed to be estimated by Section 5 thereof shall only be paid in the case of sites that are or may be occupied for business purposes.