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18. If more than one member rise to speak,
    the Chairman for the time being shall decide
    which is entitled to precedence.

19. No discussion shall be allowed on a
    motion for adjournment of the Board; and,
    should such motion be carried, the business
    then undisposed of shall have precedence at
    the next sitting.

20. Whenever the Chairman rises during
    debate, any member then speaking or offering
    to speak shall sit down, so that the Chairman
    may be heard without interruption.

21. All motions, and notices of motion,
    shall be given in writing to the Chairman,
    read, signed, and dated by the mover, and
    copied, numbered, and filed by the Clerk.

22. It shall be competent, by a vote of
    three-fifths of the members present, for the
    Board to suspend any Standing Order herein
    contained: Provided the effect of such sus-
    pension shall not be the rescinding of any
    resolution previously adopted by the Board
    at the same sitting.

Joshua Gibson, Chairman,
Thos. Tubman,
Wm. Archer,
Fred. W. Morgan,
J. D. Watson, Members.

BYE-LAW NO. 2.

At a Meeting of the Mining Drainage
Board of the District of Jones’s Flat, be-
gun and holden at the Court House, Ross,
in the said District, on the 20th day of
April, 1869, it is ordered by the said
Board as follows: That is to say,

1. When the owner of any efficient drain-
   age appliance is desirous of holding a drainage
   area, he shall define such area by erecting
   posts painted white, not less than three inches
   in diameter, extending not less than three
   feet above the ground, such posts not to be
   more than two hundred (200) feet apart on
   the boundary line, and shall send in a written
   application to that effect to the Clerk of the
   Jones’s Flat Mining Drainage Board, within
   48 hours after occupation; and shall serve,
   upon the owners of all claims or leases within
   that area a notice to that effect; and shall
   employ and pay the District Mining Surveyor
   to survey such area, who shall show by a plan
   thereof all claims, extended claims and leases,
   with their respective numbers, names, and
   areas, included within such area, together
   with the position and character of the drainage
   appliance; such survey to be connected with
   some fixed survey or permanent land mark.

2. That such application shall also state
   distinctly the nature of the appliances to be
   used by the applicant for the purposes of
   such drainage, the depth proposed to be
   drained, the time during which the applicant
   will continue to work such appliances, and
   also the payment required by him for the
   same.

3. That the Clerk of the said Board, upon
   the receipt of such application and plan, shall
   appoint a time for the consideration of such
   application by the Board, such time to be not
   sooner than one week from the date of the
   lodging of such application; and shall cause
   notice of the time and place for the hearing
   and consideration of such application to be
   served upon the various claimholders and
   lessees within such area; and shall also give
   notice to the District Mining Surveyor to
   attend at such hearing, and to produce his plan
   of such area, and give such information re-
   specting the subject matter of the application
   as shall be required of him by the Board; and
   at the time and place aforesaid the said
   Drainage Board shall proceed to consider the
   said application, and the report of the said
   District Mining Surveyor thereon; and shall
   hear the objections (if any) to the granting
   of the said application; and if the Jones’s
   Flat Mining Drainage Board shall be of opinion that such application ought or ought not
   to be granted, the said Board shall grant or
   refuse such application accordingly.

4. When any such application shall have
   been granted as aforesaid, the Board shall
   forthwith proceed to ascertain the proportion
   of the cost and the working of the said drainage
   payable in respect of each of the claims,
   extended claims, and leases within such area;
   and shall declare and fix a rate to be paid by
   the claimholders and lessees thereof, which
   shall be sufficient.

5. That an equal rate shall be paid for all
   ordinary claims for every (100) one hundred
   square feet; extended claims for every 125
   square feet and leases for every 150 square
   feet contained within their respective boun-
   daries within the drainage area.

6. That the Clerk of the said Board shall
   draw up an order granting such application,
   and stating the rate to be paid as aforesaid,
   which order shall be signed by the members
   of the Board, and shall be gazetted as a bye-
   law of the said Board.

7. That if, from the abandonment or ex-
   haustion of claims within the said area, or
   from any cause whatsoever, the amount of
   money to be collected from any such rate