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Must be Majrked and Registered. 
All protection areas must be marked at each corner with a post standing three 
feet above ground, and four inches in diameter, such posts to be kept uncovered 
and set in L trenches three feet long and six inches deep, and such marking shall 
be deemed a sufficient title for thirty clear days, subject to the labour conditions; 
after which all protection areas within the limits of a proclaimed goldfield must be 
registered. A notice shall be posted on some conspicuous part of the area with 
the names of the holders, the numbers and dates of their miners’ rights, the 
date on which the area was taken up, and the date of registration. 
Labour Conditions. 
Every protection area must be worked continuously every ordinary working 
day after seven clear working days after marking, by at least half the number of 
miners whose names appear on the notice as the holders of the area. 
Prospector must Report Finding Cold. 
Within seven clear days after the finding of gold in apparently payable 
quantities within any protection area, the holder shail report the said finding at 
the Warden’s Office, under pain of forfeiture of such area. The Warden shall 
then proceed to the ground, and if sufficient gold has been found to warrant it, he 
shall allot the prospectors a reward claim in addition to the number of ordinary 
claims to which they would otherwise be entitled. 
What considered a Sufficient Working. 
A claim or leasehold shall be considered as effectively worked when eight hours’ 
bond fide work is performed thereon by the complement of men required by the 
Regulations, on every working day except Saturday, when four hours’ work shall 
be considered sufficient. 
ALLUVIAL CLAIMS. 
Ordinary Alluvial Claims. 
Ordinary alluvial claims shall be:— 
For one man . 50 feet by 100 feet. 
Reward Claims. 
The size of reward claims, which shall be given for the discovery of jiayable 
gold in any creek, river, or ordinary alluvial ground, shall be in proportion to the 
distance from the nearest occupied gold workings of the same description, and as 
follows: — 
If distant over 400 yards 
„ one half-mile.. 
» one mile 
„ two miles 
, f three miles .. 
If beyond the limits of 
field 
a gold- 
Two claims of one man’s ground. 
Three men’s ground. 
Pour „ „ 
Six „ „ 
Ten „ „ 
Twenty 
