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levied upon all alluvial gold mining claims within Area No. 1 and Area No. 2 of the said Drainage District, 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 under Bye-Law No. 2 of the said Mining Drainage Board, clauses 4 and 5.
Second—That the first weekly rate of one penny shall be due and payable, and shall be paid to the Clerk of the said Mining Drainage Board, at the office 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 one penny shall continue and be payable, and shall be paid to the person, and at the office aforesaid, every succeeding Friday in each week until the rate hereby imposed and this bye-law be rescinded.
The undersigned members of the Jones’s Flat Mining Drainage Board have concurred in making the foregoing bye-law No. 20.
W. B. ARCHER, Chairman.
W. MONTEITH
COWAN HUNTER
JOHN THOMAS
WILLIAM DOUGLASS
BYE-LAW NO. 20.
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 25th day of April, 1871, it is enacted as follows, that is to say—
Whereas, certain drainage tunnels and other protective works have been constructed within the said drainage district, and whereas it is necessary and expedient to provide for the maintenance and efficient working thereof; and whereas for effectuating that purpose, the said Mining Drainage Board have determined upon passing a bye-law for the purpose of levying a rate upon all rateable areas within Drainage Area No. 1 and Drainage Area No. 2 of the said Drainage District.
Be it therefore ordered and directed—First, that an equal weekly rate of one penny shall be levied upon all alluvial gold mining claims within Area No. 1 and Area No. 2 of the said Drainage District, 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 under Bye-Law No. 2 of the said Mining Drainage Board, clauses 4 and 5.
Second—That the first weekly rate of one penny shall be due and payable, and shall be paid to the Clerk of the said Mining Drainage Board, at the office 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 one penny shall continue and be payable, and shall be paid to the person, and at the office aforesaid, every succeeding Friday in each week until the rate hereby imposed and this bye-law be rescinded.
The undersigned members of the Jones’s Flat Mining Drainage Board have concurred in making the foregoing bye-law No. 20.
W. B. ARCHER, Chairman.
W. MONTEITH
COWAN HUNTER
JOHN THOMAS
WILLIAM DOUGLASS
NOTICE is hereby given, that the Special Claim granted to Millican and Co., by Proclamation in the County Gazette, No. 35, of the 27th October, 1870, has been transferred to Breen and Co.
Printed by George Tilebrook and Joseph Ivess, authorised Printers for the time being of The County of Westland Gazette.
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Westland Provincial Gazette 1871, No 13
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Publication of Gold Mining Claims Drainage Bye-Laws
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🌾 Primary Industries & Resources22 May 1871
Bye-Laws, Gold Mining, Drainage, Jones's Flat, Ross United Steam Drainage Company, Michael Cassius
- W. B. Archer, Chairman
- W. Monteith
- Cowan Hunter
- John Thomas
- William Douglass
🌾 Transfer of Special Claim
🌾 Primary Industries & ResourcesClaim Transfer, Millican and Co., Breen and Co.