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Mining Drainage Board under the powers
delegated to me by His Excellency the Governor.

H. H. LAITMAN,
Governor’s Delegate.

Bye-Law No. 19.

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 21st day of March,
1871, it is enacted by the said Board as follows,
that is to say—

Whereas, under and by virtue of “The Gold Mining Claims Drainage Act, 1868,”
section 12, sub-sections 2 and 3, power is given to every Mining Drainage Board constituted under the said Act amongst other
things to make bye-laws for imposing on
alluvial mining claims such reasonable and
periodical rates as may be necessary for
enforcing and regulating the drainage thereof,
whether before or after the commencement
or completion of any drainage; and for
determining whether and under what cir-
cumstances and upon what conditions the
owners for the time being of such alluvial
claims shall pay any sum by way of contri-
bution, whether annual or otherwise, towards
the expense of any appliances for raising or
lifting or otherwise removing water from any
such alluvial claims, and of the working
their-of; and for determining the principle
upon which the amount of such contribution
is to be ascertained:

And whereas, under and by virtue of a
certain bye-law of the said Mining Drainage
Board, made on the twentieth day of April,
1869, and numbered 2, the Ross United
Steam Drainage Company (Registered) have
applied to the said Mining Drainage Board
for the drainage area hereinafter particularly
defined and described:

And whereas, the said Mining Drainage
Board in view of granting the said drainage
area to the said Ross United Steam Drainage
Company (Registered) have provided “That
in the event of certain land included within
the said drainage area applied for as afore-
said, lately held by the Great Ross Extended
Gold Mining Company (Registered), but
now owned or held by one Michael Cassius,
of Hokitika, and hereinafter particularly
described being drained by the said Michael
Cassius, such land should be exempt from
the payment of drainage rates:”

Be it therefore ordered and enacted—First,
that a drainage area, to be numbered number
2, and to be called Drainage Area, number 2,
shall be included within and defined by the following boundaries, that is to say, on the south by Drainage Area No. 1, and a line bearing 273 degrees magnetic from
peg IX on Drainage Area No. 1, and running
a distance of 225 links to a peg numbered 1;
thence by a line 1020 links, bearing 33½
degrees magnetic; thence by a line 900
links, bearing 41 degrees, 30 minutes mag-
netic; thence by a line 930 links, bearing
7 degrees magnetic; thence by a line 2030
links, bearing 130 degrees magnetic; thence
by a line 870 links, bearing 175 degrees
magnetic; thence by a line 570 links, bear-
ing 237 degrees magnetic.

Second—That an equal weekly rate of four-
pence shall be levied upon all alluvial gold
mining claims within the said area hereby
granted, and shall be paid by the owners for
the time being of all such claims, and that
such rate shall be computed after the manner
prescribed in Bye-Law number 2 of the said
Mining Drainage Board, clauses 4 and 5.

Third—That the first weekly rate of four-
pence shall be due and payable, and shall be
paid to the Clerk of the said Mining Drainage
Board, at the offices of the said Board, Aylmer-
street, Ross, aforesaid, on Friday, the ninth
day of June, Anno Domini, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one, and that such
weekly rate of fourpence shall continue and
be payable, and shall be paid to the person,
and at the place aforesaid, every succeeding
Friday in each week until the rate hereby
imposed and this bye-law be rescinded:

Provided always, and notwithstanding
anything hereinbefore contained to the con-
trary, it is hereby expressly ordered and
enacted that whenever and as soon as the
owner or owners for the time being of a cer-
tain gold mining claim, included in the said
area number 2, hereby granted and lately
held by the company or co-partnership,
styled “The Great Ross Extended Gold
Mining Company (Registered),” and bounded
and defined as the same is delineated on the
map of the Government Surveyor, setting
out and describing the gold mining
claims in the said district of Jones’s Flat,
shall effectually drain, or caused to be
drained, the said claim, situate, bounded, and
described as lastly before mentioned, by any
appliances or means whatsoever, and during
all the time that the said claim shall be so