The undersigned members of the Jones’s Flat Mining Drainage Board have concurred in making the foregoing bye-law No. 19.

W. B. ARCHER, Chairman.
W. MONTEITH
COWAN HUNTER
JOHN THOMAS
WILLIAM DOUGLASS

Bye Law No. 22.

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 27th day of June, 1871, it is enacted by the said Drainage Board as follows, that is to say—

WHEREAS, by and under “The Gold Mining Claims Drainage Act, 1868,” power is given to every Mining Drainage Board constituted thereunder, to make bye-laws for the district for which it shall have been appointed, and to revoke, alter, or amend the same:

And whereas, by and under a certain bye-law of the said Drainage Board numbered 2, in defining the basis upon which the drainage rates to be paid by the claimholders and lessees of the claims, extended claims, and leases, within any drainage area granted by the said Drainage Board, in pursuance of the power and authority in that behalf in such said Drainage Board vested and conferred, are to be calculated and levied, it is enacted “that an equal rate shall be paid for all ordinary claims for every one hundred (100) square feet; extended claims, for every one hundred and twenty-five (125) square feet; and leases for every one hundred and fifty (150) square feet contained within their respective boundaries within the drainage area”:

And whereas, by and under a certain bye-law of the said Drainage Board numbered 4, the said Drainage Board did upon the application in that behalf of “The Ross United Steam Drainage Company, Registered,” grant a drainage area, and for the purposes provided in the said bye-law No. 2, clause 4, and which said drainage area has since been termed “Drainage Area No. 1”:

And whereas, by and under a certain bye-law of the said Drainage Board numbered 18, an equal rate of eightpence was levied weekly upon all rateable areas within the said drainage area No. 1, of the said drainage district:

And whereas, by and under a certain bye-law of the said Drainage Board numbered 21, the said equal weekly rate of eightpence was increased to ninepence:

And whereas, by and under a certain bye-law of the said Drainage Board numbered 20, an equal rate of one penny was levied weekly upon all rateable areas within the said drainage area No. 1, of the said drainage district, for maintenance and construction of drainage tunnels:

And whereas, there are certain areas of ground in the said drainage area No. 1, of the said drainage district which, from the granting of the said drainage area No. 1, as aforesaid, have never been applied for, taken up, or worked for gold mining purposes, and from which no drainage rates have ever been derived, and there are also other areas of ground in the said drainage area No. 1, which by reason of the poorness thereof, and the imposition of the rates aforesaid, have been abandoned and absolutely relinquished by the former owners thereof:

And whereas in order to induce persons to take up and work such said spare and abandoned areas in the said drainage area No. 1, it has been deemed expedient and advisable by the said Drainage Board to accept such said spare and abandoned areas from the operation of the said bye-laws, and to impose thereon a reduced drainage rate:

Now therefore the said Drainage Board do order and enact—

First—That such said abandoned areas of the said drainage area No. 1, and which are particularly enumerated and described in the schedule hereunder written, and such said spare areas of the said drainage area No. 1, shall not be included in subject to or affected by the said bye-laws of the said Drainage Board numbered 18, 20, and 21 respectively, or by any other bye-law (if any) of the said Drainage Board, in respect of which rates are imposed upon the said drainage area No. 1, for drainage or other purposes, and that the rate hereinafter levied shall not be computed upon the basis prescribed by the said bye-law of the said Drainage Board numbered 2:

Second—That whenever and as long as any person or persons shall take up and peg off as