30. TRAMWAYS.

Any person intending to construct a tram-way, for gold mining purposes, shall give notice thereof in writing to the Warden of the goldfields district in which such tram-way is intended to be constructed, and to any person whose interests may be effected by the construction of the tramway, and such notice shall be in the form hereinafter set forth in schedule K, and copies of such notice shall be posted and maintained for fourteen (14) clear days, at the commencement and termination of such tramway, and the intended course thereof shall be indicated by pegs not less than two (2) inches square, or by large stones marked "I" and placed not more than two hundred (200) yards apart, and if no valid objection be entered against the construction of such tramway within fourteen (14) clear days from the delivery and posting of such notices, a certificate of registration may be granted by the Warden to the applicant.

31. MACHINERY ON PERMANENT WORKS TO REPRESENT LABOUR.

In all claims where machinery is erected, such machinery shall represent one working man for every two hundred and fifty pounds (£250) expended in procuring and erecting the same; but should any dispute arise in reference to the amount so expended the onus of proof of such expenditure shall lie with the owner of the machinery or permanent works.

32. COMPENSATION IN CASES OF DAMAGE.

In case of any injury, damage, or loss accruing to the owner or occupier of any building, garden, or other premises, held and occupied by virtue of a miner’s right, business license, or lease, or to any claim, shaft, tunnel, or mining plant, road, drain, dam, race, bridge, or to any other property, by the overflow of sludge tailings, or other substance, or by any other cause whatsoever, the party so injured shall be entitled to compensation from the parties causing such injuries. In case of dispute, the Warden, or Warden and four (4) assessors, shall determine the amount of compensation. Parties taking up claims through which tunnels, tramways, sluices, or water-races, or drains are constructed, shall be responsible for any injury done to the same through the working of such claims.

33. CLAIMS TO BE SURVEYED.

In order to avoid disputes as to the boundaries of claims, it shall be incumbent upon every miner, or party of miners, within three calendar months from the time of taking up any claim, either ordinary or extended, to apply to the Warden, who shall thereupon instruct the Mining Surveyor to survey such claim and to mark out the boundaries thereof by pegs and such other bench marks as he shall think necessary for the identification of such claim, and the Mining Surveyor shall mark off such claim accordingly, and shall prepare a plan thereof and shall number such plan with a progressive number, and shall file such plan in the Survey Office of the district, and shall deliver a copy of such plan, signed with the name of such surveyor, the date when same was made, and the progressive number thereof, to such miner or party of miners. Each miner or party of miners shall give three days notice in writing to the holders of every adjoining claim of their intention to survey their claim, requiring them to attend at a stated hour to point out to the surveyor the boundaries of their respective claims. Such miner or party of miners shall, upon application to the Warden to make such survey, pay to the said Warden the fee of two guineas (£2 2s) for the said survey and plan.

34. SURVEY IN ABSENCE OF A MINING SURVEYOR.

Whenever it is required by these regulations that a survey should be made, if there be no Mining Surveyor within the district whose services can be obtained within a reasonable time, the Warden may authorise and appoint any capable person to make the necessary survey; and such survey shall, for all the purposes of these regulations, be taken and accepted as, or in lieu of, a survey by an appointed Mining Surveyor, who shall furnish plans to be forwarded to the District Survey office.

35. NUISANCE CLAUSE.

Every holder of a business or residence site, or tent ground, shall be required to keep the ground around the same in such a state of cleanliness as not to become a nuisance to his neighbours or the public. And any person depositing any filth or offensive substance in a place where the same becomes a nuisance, must remove the same at his own expense when ordered to do so by the Warden. And the Warden may order the removal of any slaughter-yard or piggeries at the expense of the owners, and may prohibit the exercise of any noisome or unwholesome trade.

36. PRECAUTION AGAINST FIRE.

When any risk of fire exists from the close proximity of any chimney, forge, &c., and any dwelling-house or building, or from the lighting of any fire, the Warden may enforce such alteration as he may deem necessary for the safety of the adjoining buildings.