Hokitika, July 22, 1871.

PURSUANT to section 13 of "The Gold Mining Claims Drainage Act, 1868," under the powers delegated to me by His Excellency the Governor, I hereby publish, for general information, Bye-Laws 19, 20, and 23 of the Jones’s Flat Mining Drainage Board.

H. H. LAHMAN,
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; and for determining whether and under what circumstances and upon what conditions the owners for the time being of such alluvial claims shall pay any sum by way of contribution 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 thereof; 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 aforesaid, 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, be, and the same is hereby granted in accordance with the application in that behalf of the Ross United Steam Drainage Company (Registered), and that the said 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 925 links to a peg numbered 1; thence by a line 1020 links, bearing 336 degrees magnetic; thence by a line 900 links, bearing 41 degrees, 30 minutes magnetic; 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, bearing 237 degrees magnetic:

Second—That an equal weekly rate of fourpence 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 fourpence 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 Tuesday, the first day of August, 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 contrary, it is hereby expressly ordered and enacted that the owner or owners for the time being of a certain 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 described.