Westland Provincial Gazette – 1870 – No. 30

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✨ Mining Drainage Board Bye Laws



months to six months during the said term of three years certain, but that if either party shall be desirous of obtaining an alteration of the term of such payment, it shall be lawful for the party desiring such alteration to give one month notice in writing to the other party before the expiration of the first or any subsequent term of six months during the said term of three years, of such be their desire; whereupon it shall be lawful for the said parties to meet and readjust the terms of payment.

  1. That the date of the payment of the aforesaid sum shall commence from the date of the coming into operation of this Bye Law, and all arrears shall be computed and settled between the parties herein named.

  2. That if any expenses shall be hereinafter required for driving, tunnels, or otherwise, not included in the foregoing arrangements, the sum shall be provided for by a special agreement to be made between the parties at the time.

The undersigned members of the “Jones’s Flat Mining Drainage Board” have concurred in the framing of this Bye Law No. 17.

F. W. MORGAN, Chairman.

J. D. WATSON,

JOHN GOW,

WM. B. ARCHER.

BYE LAW No. 18.

At a meeting of the Mining Drainage Board of the District of Jones’s Flat, begun and holden at Ross, in the said District, on the 6th day of September, 1870, it was enacted as follows:—

That is to say—

Whereas the Mining Drainage Board of the District of Jones’s Flat, did grant, upon the application of the “Ross United Steam Drainage Company, Registered,” Drainage Area No. 1, on the 21st day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and for the purposes as provided in Bye Law No. 2 of the said Board, clause No. 4:

Now therefore, the said Mining Drainage Board for the District of Ross, as aforesaid, do enact that an equal rate of eightpence (8d) shall be levied weekly upon all rateable areas within Drainage Area No. 1 as aforesaid, payment of such rate to be due and payable to the clerk of the said Board, at his office, Aylmer-street, Ross, on Friday, the 23rd day of September, 1870, and such payments shall continue to be made each Friday, until otherwise ordered by the said Drainage Board.

Be it also ordered and directed by the said Mining Drainage Board, that from and after the coming into operation of this Bye Law; all the provisions contained in Bye Law No. 14 of the said Board, levying a rate of fourpence (4d), shall be and the same are hereby rescinded.

The undersigned members of the said Mining Drainage Board concurred in making the foregoing Bye Law No. 18.

F. W. MORGAN, Chairman.

WM. B. ARCHER,

JOHN GOW,

J. D. WATSON,

THOS. TUBMAN.

Printed by JOSEPH PHILIP KLEIN, authorised Printer for the time being of the “County of Westland Gazette.”



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🗺️ Proclamation altering the limits of Westland Goldfields (continued from previous page)

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
17 September 1870
Goldfields, Westland, Proclamation, Boundaries, Mining

🌾 Mining Drainage Board Bye Law No. 17

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
Mining, Drainage, Bye Law, Payment Terms, Jones's Flat
  • F. W. Morgan (Chairman), Concurred in framing Bye Law No. 17
  • J. D. Watson, Concurred in framing Bye Law No. 17
  • John Gow, Concurred in framing Bye Law No. 17
  • Wm. B. Archer, Concurred in framing Bye Law No. 17

🌾 Mining Drainage Board Bye Law No. 18

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
6 September 1870
Mining, Drainage, Bye Law, Rate Levy, Ross United Steam Drainage Company
  • F. W. Morgan (Chairman), Concurred in making Bye Law No. 18
  • Wm. B. Archer, Concurred in making Bye Law No. 18
  • John Gow, Concurred in making Bye Law No. 18
  • J. D. Watson, Concurred in making Bye Law No. 18
  • Thos. Tubman, Concurred in making Bye Law No. 18