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executed, or performed in and about the accept- County of Westland Gazette, and three
ance and execution respectively for me (or us) times by the applicants themselves in a news-
and in my name (or our names) of such lease paper circulating in the locality, setting forth
and deed of lease respectively, and I (or we) all particulars relating to said application.

do hereby ratify, confirm, and covenant that I 4. Objectors to give Notice.
(or we) will ratify and confirm all and whatso- Any person objecting to the issue of a

ever the said E. F. shall lawfully do, or cause to lease so applied for shall, within twenty-one
do be done, in or about the premises by virtue of days after the posting of the notice by the
this power. In witness whereof Surveyor, forward to the Warden full notice

N.B.—Printed copies of the forms in these of all such objections, and shall (except in
schedules will be issued at the Warden’s office cases of encroachment) deposit the sum of
twenty pounds (£20), and such Warden shall
give to the person making such deposit a free of expense.

receipt in the form in the Schedule annexed
marked Q, as security for the due prosecution

PART IV.

I.—WATER RIGHTS RACE LEASE

REGULATIONS.

1. Application to be Made.

Any person intending to divert and use water from any river, stream, or creek in
larger quantities than five Government sluice-
heads, in a race exceeding three miles in
length, for the purpose of sale or otherwise in
connection with mining, &c., under the au-
thority of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866” and
any Amendment Act of the same, shall make
application in duplicate to the Warden of the
District within which the water-right to be
acquired is situated, in the form in Schedule
A, hereunto annexed.

2. Deposit to be Made on Application.

At the time of applying for a Water-right
Race Lease, the applicant if he requires the
services of the Mining Survey staff must
deposit with the Receiver of Gold Revenue
the sum of one hundred pounds (£100) ster-
ling, as a guarantee for the payment of the
necessary expenses which may be incurred
for the survey, levels, &c., on the line of such
race applied for or by reason of any objection
to such application being made, and the Re-
ceiver of Gold Revenue shall give to the
applicant a receipt in the form of Schedule B,
hereunto annexed, and endorse on each appli-
cation that the deposit has been received
by him. Provided the Mining Survey staff is
not required to lay out the race a deposit of
twenty pounds shall be made to cover ex-
penses of survey or any other expenses incurred
therewith. Any surplus which may remain
after the defrayment of the above expenses
shall be returned to the applicant.

3. Application to be Made Public.

Upon the receipt of such application en-
dorsed by the Receiver of Gold Revenue, as
prescribed in the preceding clause, the Warden
shall, as soon as may be, forward one copy of
said application to the Governor’s Delegate,
which shall be published twenty-one (21) days
prior to granting such application in the

4. Objectors to give Notice (continued).

of his objections, and in satisfaction of any
expenses to which the applicant may be put
by such objections if disallowed; and if such
objections should not be prosecuted or should
fail, so much of such deposit should be handed
over to the applicant as may be necessary to
repay the expenses of such applicant, and the
balance (if any) shall be refunded to the
person so objecting.

5. Objections to be Lodged with the Warden Twenty-one (21) Days.

Twenty-one days after the date of the ap-
plication appearing in the County of Westland
Gazette, the Warden shall appoint a time and
place for holding an enquiry into the objec-
tions (if any), and two clear days’ notice of
the holding of any such enquiry, together
with a copy of the objections lodged, shall be
given to each of the persons interested
theein.

6. Proceedings at Enquiry.

At such enquiry three copies of the local
paper containing the Surveyor’s notice, the
publication of the application by the
applicants shall be handed to the Warden,
when the Warden shall take evidence in
relation to the objections made against the
application, and immediately thereafter the
Warden shall forward to the office of the
Governor’s Delegate the objections (if any) to
such application, and the evidence taken by
him, with his opinion thereon attached.

7. Governor’s Delegate to Issue Lease.

Ten days after, upon receipt of such ap-
proved application by the Warden, the
Governor’s Delegate may, if he shall think
fit, issue to any applicant of a Water-Rights
Race a lease as applied for, said lease to date
from the day of such issue, upon the following
terms: That is to say, the annual rent to be
as follows:—

(a) For each head of 40 inches of water,
from a race not exceeding five miles
from its source, at per head, 1
shillings.