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such time as the Commissioner may think fit, or may be cancelled by 

 the Commissioner, subject to an appeal to the Governor. 



175. Any accident occurring in a mine shall be prima fai-le Presumiition of 

 evidence that such accident occurred through some negligence on the accirtenUn '^"'^ 

 part of the owner <if the mine. mine. 



176. The manager of every mine shall, forthwith after the Reporting of 

 occurrence of any accident attended with serious injury to any person, serious accident 

 give notice in writing thereof to the Warden or Mining Inspector and '" '"'"*^- 

 shall also forthwith, if there is a telegraph or telephone station within 



ten miles of the mine, report the same by telegraph or telephone 

 message to the Commissioner. 



177. — (1) Every person who is guilty of a breach of any Liability for 

 Regulation contained in this Part shall be liable, where no penalty is breach of 

 expressly provided, if he is the owner, manager, or person in charge Part"x''°'^^ 

 of or giving orders or directions relating to the carrying on of any 

 mining operations in any mine, to a penalty not exceeding one hun- 

 dred dollars, and, if he is any other person, to a penalty not exceeding 

 fifty dollars. 



(2) The whole or any part of such penalty may be awarded to any 

 person injured in consequence of such breach, and such award shall 

 not take away any right of action such person ma,y have under these 

 Regulations or otherwise. 



PART XI. 



Deteriiiination of Dhputes. 



178. All dis2Dutes by way of opposition to the issue of any licence, General 

 and all disputes as to what land is or is not lawfully occupied or has SecSon V* '° 

 or has not been lawfully located, or any other disputes arising under disputes in first 

 these Regulations, shall be decided by the Commissioner, or by the instances. 

 Warden of the Mining District in which the dispute arises. 



179. — (1) The person desiring to have any dispute other than by ^lakinsof 

 way of opjjosition settled shall file a complaint in writing setting forth '^°™'' "'^ ' 

 the names of the j^arties to the dispute, a short statement of the cause 

 (if complaint, and the remedy or redi'ess which he asks for, and shall, 

 within seven days thereafter, serve on the opposite Jiarty, either 

 personally or by leaving the same at his registered address in George- 

 ti>wn, if he has one, or in such other manner as the Commissioner, or 

 Warden, may direct, a copy of the complaint. 



(2) There shall be endorsed on the complaint an address in 

 Georgetown or in the Mining District as the case may be, at which all 

 notices may l)e served on the complainant. 



180. — (1) The opposite party may, within seven days after service Piling of 

 upon him of the statement or complaint, file an answer in writing "^^swer. 

 stating how much he admits and how much he denies in the statement 



