390 Sport and Life. 



general course of the stream, and shall extend in width from base to base 

 of the hill or bench on each side, but when the hills or benches are less 

 than looft. apart, the claim shall be looft. square. 



In " bar diggings " a claim shall be a strip of land rooft. long at high- 

 water mark, and in width extending from high-water mark in the river to 

 its lowest water level. Dry diggings, looft. square. 



In "bench diggings" a claim shall be looft. square, provided that the 

 Gold Commissioner has authority, where a bench is narrow, to extend the 

 limits of the claim beyond the limits of the bench, but not to exceed looft. 

 square. 



In " hill diggings " a claim shall have a base line or frontage of icoft., 

 drawn parallel to the main direction of the stream or ravine on which 

 it fronts. 



Parallel lines drawn from each end to the line at right angles thereto, 

 and running to the summit of the hill, shall constitute the side lines 

 thereof. Legal posts shall be placed icoft. apart on both the base 

 line and the side lines, and no claim shall extend beyond the posts so 

 placed. 



If any free miner, or party of free miners, discover a new mine, placer 

 claims of the following sizes, in dry, bar, bench, creek or hill diggings, 

 shall be allowed, viz. : To one discoverer, one claim 3Ooft. in length ; to a 

 party of two discoverers, two claims amounting together to 6ooft. in length; 

 to a party of three discoverers, three claims, amounting to Sooft. in length; 

 to a party of four discoverers, four claims, amounting to loooft. in length;, 

 and to each member of a party beyond four in number, a claim of the 

 ordinary size only. A creek discovery claim shall extend on each side of 

 the centre of the creek as far as the summit of the hill, but not exceeding 

 loooft. 



A new stratum of auriferous earth, gravel, or cement, situated in a 

 locality where all placer claims are abandoned, shall be deemed a new 

 mine. 



In denning the size of placer claims, they shall be measured horizontally, 

 irrespective of inequalities on the surface of the ground. 



Any location made on Sunday or any public holiday shall not for that 

 reason be invalid, any law or statute to- the contrary notwithstanding. 



What must be Recorded. 



Placer claims must be recorded within three days after location, if 

 within ten miles of the Mining Recorder's office, and one additional day is 

 allowed for each additional ten miles or fraction thereof. 



