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APPENDIX B. 



11 E RMS and conditions fixed liy the Governor-in-Council under which 

 permission shall ordinarily l)e given to temporarily occupy and test the 

 value of unoccupied Crown Lands under the provisions of Section 14 (2) of 

 the Mining Ordinance, 1903 : — 



1. (a) The right shall not be granted for a longer period than 



three years. 



(A) The area shall in no case be less than 500 acres : to be 

 defined bv natural features or as prescribed by Eegulations 

 29 and 30 of the Mining Eegulations, 1903. 



{<■) There shall be payable in advance for every such right a fee 

 of seven and a half cents for every acre for every financial 

 year or part of a year for which it is in force, and the 

 right shall remain in force only so long as the fee is not 

 in arrears. 



(fl) All Mining claims ])reviously located within the boundaries 

 of such area sluill be excluded from the right and from the 

 surface foi' which fee is j)ayable. 



(r) The grantee of the exclusive right shall be free from time 

 to time to abandon any ]jart or parts of the area granted 

 to him, and, Avhen he has properly demarcated the area so 

 abandoned and shown it to the satisfaction of the Warden no 

 exploitation fee for sid:)sequent financial years shall be 

 payable by him thereon. 



(_/' ) During the continuance of this exclusive right of occupation 

 and exploration the grantee shall l)e at libeity to mark off 

 such rectangular areas as he may desire to haA-e the exclusive 

 right of working, autl a grant of the exclusive right of 

 working the same may be given him on his application by 

 the Governor under Section 15 of the Mining Ordinance, 

 1903 ; provided that no such area shall be less than 1,500 feet 

 by 800 feet. 



2. So much of every area granted for occupation and exploration, 

 as shall be abandoned by the grantee or not allocated to him as a 

 grant for exclusive working before or at the expiration of his exclusive 

 privilege of exploration, will become open for application and location 

 to all pei"sons. 



3. Every application for permission to explore shall be advertised 

 in the Oflftcial Gazette at the cost of the applicant for three con- 

 secutive Saturdays in order to allow of any opposition to the granting 

 of the same being made. 



4. In the rectangular areas described in conditions 1 ( /'), the 

 area shall be demarcated as prescribed by Regulations 29 and 30 of 

 the Mining Regulations, 1903. 



