Ajypendix A. 257 



18. — (1) In the mouth of June in each year the Commissioner Sale of claims 

 shall, for three consecutive Saturdays, including the first Saturday, ^^^"of rent 

 advertise for sale on the Tuesday following the third Saturday, the ^ ^ " 

 rights of the licensees in all claims for which the rent payable for 

 the current financial year is then in arrear, and shall on the said 

 Tuesday put up the same for sale and sell the same to the highest 

 bidder for cash on the knock of the hammer, whereupon the rights of 

 the licensees in the said claims so sold shall cease and determine. 



In the event of a sale being concluded the Commissioner shall 

 give to the purchaser a copy of the licence with a note on the face of it 

 recording such sale, and shall also record the sale on the Register of 

 Licences kept by him : 



Provided, however, that the holder of a licence may at any time 

 not later than the day before the sale takes jjlace, pay the rent due in 

 respect of a claim and the sum of fifty cents as cost of the advertisement 

 and the Commissioner shall not sell the same. 



(2) All sums received in I'espect of such sales shall be paid to the 

 Commissioner. 



(3) If the right in any claim put up for sale as aforesaid is not 

 sold, the licence issued in respect of it shall ipso facto be i^evoked, and 

 the Commissioner shall give notice of the said revocation in the 

 Cxazette, when the said claim shall be open to location by any person. 



(4) Every person who abandons a claim shall send in a written Abandonment 

 notice to the Commissioner or Warden of such abandonment. °* claims. 



(.5) The Commissioner shall publish in the Gazette a notice of 

 every such abandonment for three successive Saturdays and the land 

 upon which such claim was located shall after the expiration of one 

 month from the date of the first publication be open to location. 



Rent jHitjiihle in resjject of Licences ami Royalty. 



19. — (1) There shall be payable in advance for each licence the Fees payable 

 rent specified in the Second Schedule to these Regulations. Seoond°°^' 



(2) The Commissioner or Warden may detain any gold or precious Schedule, 

 stones obtained from any claim in case such payment has not been 

 made and sell the same and deduct from the proceeds of such sale the 

 amount due to the Government for such rent. 



20, The royalty shall be seventy cents for each ounce of gold and Amount of 

 four cents for each ounce of silver, or such amount as may from time ^i.^^gQ^gr^^ ^°^^ 

 to time be fixed by the Governor and Court of Policy. 



PART II. 



Precious Stones Licences. 



21. Every person holding a Precious Stones Licence shall be Notifying 

 bound immediately after he has commenced to work the land for the ilature^of'^"*^ 

 purpose of extracting jjrecious stones to notify in writing the Warden working. 



of the District in which the land mentioned in the licence is situate, 

 the quantity of land he intends to work and whether the work 

 commenced is in the nature of alluvial working or mining. 



22. If the work commenced is in the nature of mining such Keeping of 

 holder shall keep a book in the form to be approved by the Commis- record of work, 

 sioner and record therein at least once a week the number of cubic 



