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3. Registration and Marking. Claims under the preceding section must be registered, and the boundaries marked and maintained by parallel trenches, or rows of pegs placed not more than fifty feet apart; and such trenches or pegs shall be at right angles with the frontage of the hill, along the entire dapth allowed; the fee for such registration to be two shillings and sixpence. 4. Discovery of Auriferous Earth. On the discovery of payable auriferous earth, prospectors shall immediately mark off their claim* in blocks, in accordance with the regulations relating to alluvial mining. 5. Parallels. Persons tunnelling shall not drive beyond their own parallels. 6. Protection of Tunnels. No person shall mine within ten feet of any main tunnel, or trench at the foot of the claim, and no person shall remove the surface earth over any tunnel, nor within the parallels of ground marked off for tunnelling purposes without the consent of the owners, or the sanction of the Warden being first obtained thereto. 7. Ventilation. When cross-drives or openings are required for ventilation, the Warden may issue an order for making such drives or openings, and for the allocation of the work to be performed, and also for the distribution of any auriferous deposits which may be found in the intervening wall. 8. Superiority of Bight. Priority of registration shall in all eases be deemed to confer superiority of right. XIV. Extended Claims. 1. Inferior Ground. If it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Warden tbpt auy ground cannot be profitably worked in the claims of the size prescribed by the regulations, he may declare the same to be " Inferior Ground," and upon application being made as hereinafter directed, may grant therein extended claims, he extent of which to be decided by the Warden. 2. Form of Application. Application for extended claims in " Inferior Ground" shall be made to the Warden in the following form, a duplicate of which will be posted on the ground for not less than seven days prior to the hearing: To the Warden at (District and date.) I (or we) hereby give notice that I (or we) desire to obtain an extended claim (here state the extent of area applied for) situate at (here state precise locality) and 1 (or we) deposit herewith the sum of £5 (five pounds) as security for the payment of any expense connected therewith. (Signature, with date and number of Miner's Eight, held by each member of the party.) 3. Official Survey. Upon receipt of such application and deposit or as soon thereafter as may be, the Warden shall direct the Mining Surveyor to proceed to the land applied for, and to survey the same, and to report as to the area, boundaries, and description thereof; the character of the ground, the likelihood of any river, creek, or permanent water spring, or artificial reservoir, which may be included within the boundaries of the said land, being required for, or the feasibility of the same being applied to public purposes, or for the use of miners of the district generally ; and also as to any claims to prior occupancy which shall come to his knowledge, inquiry as to which it shall be his duty to make while making the survey ; and to furnish a plan of such land on a scale of sixteen inches to the mile, together with a tracing of so much of the general map of the district as will be sufficient to connect the particular area applied for with at least one trigonometrical station, or in the absence of any such, with some fixed point. 4. Surveyor to Post Notice. The Surveyor shall, at the time of making the survey hereinbefore directed, post a notice in the form hereunto annexed, in some conspicuous place on the ground, and such notice shall be maintained by and at the expense of the applicants, until the application has been heard and determined, and a copy of such notice shall also be posted by the Surveyor on the outside of the Warden's Office:

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MADE UNDER THE GOLD FIELDS ACT, 1862