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QUARTZ REEFS. 
Ordinary Quartz Claims. 
The extent allowed for each miner in any ordinary quartz claim shall be 75 
feet along the supposed line of reef by a width of 400 feet. 
Reward Claims. 
The reward claim which shall be given for the discovery of gold in apparently 
payable quantities on any new reef, or the re-discovery of the same on any reef 
previously occupied and abandoned, shall be in proportion to the distance from 
any reef being worked, and as follows:— 
If distant less than 400 yards, 100 feet along the line of reef. 
If distant more than 400 yards and less than one mile, 150 feet along the line 
of reef. 
If distant more than one mile and less than two, 200 feet along the line of 
reef. 
If distant more than two miles and less than ten, 300 feet along the line of 
reef. 
If distant ten miles or more, 500 feet along the line of reef. 
The width allowed in all these cases is 400 feet. 
All the above rewards shall be in addition to what the parties would be other¬ 
wise entitled to in ordinary claims. 
Number of Miners to be Employed. 
Only one-lialf the number of miners to whom any quartz claim has been 
allotted need be employed thereon until it has been proved payable. 
When payable the whole number must be employed. 
Gold Mining Leases. 
All ground held under a mining lease shall be worked by not less than one 
man for every three acres or part of three acres, unless exemption or partial 
exemption from work has been granted. Provided that no lease shall be worked 
by less than two men. 
Rewards for Discoveries of New Goldfields. 
A reward of not less than <£500 and not more than <£1,000 shall be paid to 
any person or persons who shall discover a goldfield—deemed by the Governor in 
Executive Council to be a payable goldfield—in any of the following divisions of 
the Colony, as defiued by the Laud Regulations of the 2nd March, 1887, namely:— 
South-West Division 
Gascoyne „ ( Granted ) 
North-West ,, ( Granted ) 
Eucla „ 
Eastern „ ( Granted ) 
Not more than one such reward shall be payable in respect of each of the 
said divisions. 
