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7. The tunnel deviation to be completed and in full working order on or before the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, and from that date, should the said deviation not be completed and in full working order, then the miners shall maintain and extend the No. 1 Sludge-channel at their own expense, on consideration of water being supplied from the Kumara Water-race to the miners' tailing into No. 1 Sludge-channel to the value of three thousand two hundred pounds. On commencing to construct the said deviation the value of the water to be supplied shall be paid to the Manager of the Kumara Water-race as heretofore monthly in advance, who shall lodge the same to the credit of a number two account in the Bank of New Zealand at Kumara ; the said account shall be operated upon by the said Manager to pay over to the trustees such sums from time to time as the said Manager shall deem due on account of constructing the said deviation. As soon as the said deviation is completed and in full working order, and the maintenance and extensions taken over by the trustees, any moneys lying to the credit of the said number two account shall be handed over to the trustees, together with any further sum that may accrue, until the full amount authorised by the Hon. Minister of Mines on the seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, viz., three thousand two hundred pounds, shall have been paid. 8. Flushing water for the use of the channel shall be supplied from the Kumara Water-race free of charge. The quantity of such flushing water to be not less than twenty-three sluice-heads, unless otherwise desired by the miners themselves. 9. The maximum gradient in sluice-boxes for a distance of sixty feet at the head of all the tail-races from which tailings are discharged into No. 1 Sludge-channel shall not exceed nine inches to every twelve feet. 10. Within three days from the date of this agreement the miners shall make application to the Warden for permission to construct the new sludge-channel of thirty chains, as herebefore referred to, and shall, within eight Says after the granting of the certificate for the same by the Warden for the said deviation, appoint trustees, and convey to them, by deed of trust, their right to construct the said deviation. The whole of the work to be done by contract, and the construction of the said deviation shall be commenced on or before the tenth day of August next, and carried on with at least twelve men working at the deviation until the whole is completed. Dated the third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine. Patrick Chambers. Edward O'Connell. Eugene O'Sullivan. Frederick Lindbam. Henry George. Eobert Beid. James Hanson. Edward Gibbons. Charles Stockman. G. H. Haymes. William Bain. James Anderson. Abel Trickey. Charles Harris. Hugh Fraser. David Boss. William Eraser. Alexander Campbell. John Gartelman. Peter A. Beyer. Nathan Bothwell. John Light. Thomas Dunnett. John Bosencar. J. P. Thomas. Peter Franzina. Charles Hillier. Tom Knight. William Pollock. Elijah Vincent. Patrick Byan. William McCotter. William Seater. James Metcalfe. Jacob Guckert. Jeremiah Carew. Bobert Keddie. Patrick McGrath. B. Bell. G. Battista Bizzi. Joseph Shrives. Bichard Grunn. George Bizzi. John Higgins. Moirs Gonet. Gucheihno Bizzi. Simone Spinette. Michela Bizzi. Bobert Hunter. John S. Pearn. James Wood. M. Scanlon Conrad Werner. Daniel Jamieson. Michael Madden. Jeremiah Sullivan. John Netherway. Thomas McTetrick. Thomas Lapsley. Joseph D. Leary. William Duckworth. Matthew Davidson. John Love. Stephen McNeill. Simon Peters. John O'Connor. James Conoghan. John Killer. Hugh McNeaster. Thomas Lavitt, his x mark. \ Witness : Henry Bobert McGregor. Thomas Bothwell, his x mark.) A. Gordon. Hugh O'Flaherty. George Burt Way. Witnesses to signatures —A. E. Kennedy, J. Gow, Henry A. Gordon.

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