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Ail Ordinance to extend and improve the Laws\nrelating to Gold Mining.\n[26th February, 1864.]\nWHEREAS, from the increased extent and importance of Gold .Mining in\nBritish. Columbia, it is requisite to make further provision as to the\nholding, sale, transmission, and disposal of claims aud interests in claims, and\nto facilitate the creation of partnerships, and also to confer privileges under\ncertain restrictions on free miners associating together for the more economical\nand systematic drainage of mining ground, and to raise revenue from the duties\nupon the registration of various mining matters;\nBe it enacted by the Governor of British Columbia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:\n1. From and after the passing of this Act, so much of clause thirty one (31)\nof the Gold Fields Act, 1859, as relates to the times of meeting of the Mining\nBoard shall be amended to read as follows:\nThe Mining Board shall meet at such times as a majority of the said Board\nshall decide, and one-half of the members of the said Board shall constitute a\nquorum. Provided nevertheless that it shall be lawful for the Gold Commissioner, when and so often as in his opinion occasion shall require, to call together\nsuch Mining Board.\n2. Section thirty three (33) of the said Gold Fields. Act, 1859, shall be repealed, and the following provisions substituted in lieu thereof:\nThe General Election of members ofthe Mining Board shall beheld on such\nday, in each year, as the Gold Commissioner in each District shall appoint;\nAnd the Gold Commissioner shall fill by appointment all vacancies which\nmay arise in the said Board, and when the same may occur, and such appointees\nshall hold office until the next General Election.\n3. Section thirty Hve (35) of the said Gold Fields Act shall be amended\nby striking out the words Gold Commissioner in the first line of the said section.\n4. The words Gold Commissioner shall be and is hereby struck out from\nclause thirty six (38) of the said Gold Fields Act, 1859, wherever the same\nmay occur therein, and in lieu thereof the words \"majority ofthe said Mining\nBoard \" shall be inserted throughout such clause, which shall be read and construed accordingly, reserving nevertheless to the Gold Commissioner the power\nhereinbefore specified in clause I. of this Act.\n5. Upon complaint being made to him, the Gold Commissioner is hereby\nempowered to order all mining works to be carried out in such manner as he\nshall think necessary for the safety of the public, or the protection of their\nrights, or the interest ofthe holders of claims adjoining to or affected by any\nsuch works, and to order any abandoned works to be either filled up or\nsufficiently guarded to his satisfaction, at the cost of the parties who may have\nconstructed the same, or in case such parties shall be absent then to make such\norder in the premises as to such Gold Commissioner shall seem expedient.\nPreamble.\nMisting Board Meetings.\nRepeals   Section    33   of\nGold Field's Act, 1859.\nElection of Mining Board,\nVacancies in the Board\nMining Board may act\nwithout presence of Gold\nCommissioner.\nMining Board to manage\nits internal affairs.\nProtection against dan,\ngerous works.\n Hill or Tunnel Claims.\nGold Commissioner may\nrefuse to record certain\nTunnel Claims.\nGold Commissioner may\ndecide all mining partnership disputes.\nBed-rock Flumes.\nPower to Gold Commissioner to authorize Bedrock Flumes.\nWho may be a Bed-rock\nFlume Company.\nPrivileges of and requirements from Bed-rock\nFlume Companies.\nFree Miners may lay Bedrock Flumes above Bedrock Flume Company's\nClaim.\nFree Miners may use, but\nnot obstruct Bed-rock\nFlumes.\nBed-rock Flume Companies may enter on \"abandoned ground.\"\n6. All claims situated on the banks of or fronting on any natural channel,\nstream, ravine, or water course, shall have a base line drawn parallel to the\nchannel of the stream on which they may be located, such base line to constitute the frontage of such claims, and to be marked by posts of the legal size\nplaced at intervals of one hundred feet. Lines drawn at right angles thereto\nto constitute the side lines or dividing lines between claims.\n7. Provided also that the Gold Commissioner shall have power to refuse\nto record any hill or tunnel claim on any creek, which claim or any part thereof\nshall include or come within two hundred feet of any gulch or tributary of sueh\ncreek.\n8. Clause seventeen (17) of the Gold Fields Act, 1859, is hereby repealed.\n9. It shall be lawful for the Gold Commissioner to grant, or agree to grant,\nrights of entry on or under any lands in the Colony, for the purpose of constructing, laying, and maintaining Bed-rock Flumes, for such terms, not exceeding\nten years, with, under, and subject to such of the conditions and stipulations\nhereinafter mentioned with regard to Bed-rock Flumes, as in the opinion of such\nGold Commissioner the interests of mining in his District, for the time being,\nmay render advisable. Provided that every such grant or agreement shall contain a proper reservation of the rights of the Crown, and of public rights of way\nand water, and reservations of land for Public or Govermental purposes, and (so\nfar as consistent with the objects of such grant) a reservation of private rights\narising for the time being.\n10. Three or more free miners may constitute themselves into a Bed-rock Flume\nCompany within the meaning of this Act, and when duly authorized as lastly\nhereinbefore mentioned may enter upon any river, creek, gulch, ravine, or\nother water course in the Colony, for the purpose of constructing and laying a\nBed-rock Flume therein, and when not otherwise expressed in such authority\nas aforesaid, with the rights and privileges and under the limitations and restrictions hereinafter specified.\n11. Any company so authorized as aforesaid, and organized under the provisions\nof this Act, shall be entitled to enter upon any new and unworked river, creek,\ngulch, ravine, or water course, and locate a strip of ground one hundred feet\nwide and two hundred feet long, in the bed of such stream, gulch, ravine, or\n'water course, to each man of the persons constituting such company, and shall\nhave and enjoy the right of way from their upper line to extend the said\nflume for a further distance of five miles up the stream, gulch, ravine, or water\ncourse, in the bed thereof. Provided that such company shall for each of the\nmen constituting the same, construct and lay at least fifty feet of flume during\nthe first year, and one hundred feet annually thereafter.\n12. In case any free miner or miners shall enter upon, take up, and legally work\nany ground above the claim of the said Bed-rock Flume company, and within\nthe limits of their right of way, after the said company shall have become organized and located according to the provisions of this Act, such company shall\nbe entitled to enter upon such claim or claims for the purpose of cutting a channel to and into the bed-rock if necessary, and of laying their flume through such\nclaim or claims.\nProvided that such channel shall not be cut wider than necessary for that\npurpose, and the owner or owners of such claim or claims shall be entitled to all\nthe gold taken out ofthe cut.\n13. Any free miner or miners lawfully holding and working any claims on any\ngulch, ravine, stream or water course where a Bed-rock Flume may be constructed under the provisions of this Act, shall be entitled to tail their sluices, hydraulics and ground sluices into such flume, but so nevertheless as not in the\nopinion ofthe Gold Commissioner, by rocks, stones, boulders, or otherwise unnecessarily to obstruct the free working of such flume.\nProvided that such Bed-rock Flume company, shall be entitled to all the\ngold deposited in such flume.\n14. Any company authorized and organized as aforesaid, shall be, and are hereby\nempowered to enter upon any river, creek, gulch, ravine, or other water course\nwhich may have been worked by miners and abandoned, and locate the entire\nbed of such stream, gulch, ravine, or water course one hundred feet in width,\nand one half mile of the length of such stream, gulch, ravine, or water course,\nI\n 3\n*or each one of the free miners constituting such company, and such company\nshall possess the exclusive right to work the ground so located.\nThe term \"abandoned ground\" shall be construed to include all new and unworked ground outside of claims, actually held and worked upon any stream,\ngulch, ravine, or water course, which may have been discovered and mined for\ntwo years or more.\n15. Bed-rock Flume companies authorized and organized as aforesaid, and locating upon abandoned streams or ground, shall be governed by clause 12\nof this Act in all cases where free miners or companies of free miners shall be\nlegally holding and working claims on such stream or ground, prior to and at\nthe time ofthe location of such Bed-rock Flume company's claim, if within the\nlimits thereof.\n16. Any portion or part of any river, creek, gulch, ravine, or other water course\nhaving four or more free miners per mile Jegilly holding and bond fide not col-\nourably working claims, on such stream, gulch, ravine, or water course, shall\nnot be deemed \"abandoned\" within the meaning of this Act, but in such case\nany Bed-rock Flume company desiring to run a flume through such portion or\npart of such stream, gulch, ravine, or water, course, shall be governed by the\nfollowing clauses of this Act.\n17. Any Bed-rock Flume company, as aforesaid, locating upoa any portion of a\nstream, gulch, ravine, or water course referred to in clause 16 hereof shall have\ntheir location carefully surveyed, and a post with a square top driven securely\ninto the ground, upon the lower line of each such claims, within such company's\nlimits, and shall at the time o\u00a3 setting up such posts give notice to each ofthe\nholders of such claims, in writing, of the distance in feet and inches, at which\nsuch company's flume will strike any such miner's claim, or perpendicularly\nbelow the top of such post, and the number of inches grade which such flume\nhas in each one hundred feet.\n18. At the expiration of one calendar month, or such further time as the Gold\nCommissioner may allow, after survey and service of notice last aforesaid, it shall\nbe lawful for such Flume company to enter upon any claim or claims situated\nwithin sueh company's limits, and open a cut and lay a bed-rock flume through\nsuch claim or claims, in case the owner or owners thereof shall have failed in\nthe meantime to open their respective claims, and lay bed-rock flumes therein.\nProvided that if such Bed-rock Fume company shall so enter upon and lay\nthe said flume through any claim or claims, as last aforesaid, the respective\nholder or holders of such claim or claims shall be entitled to all gold taken from\nthe cut and bed-rock, in opening the said cut and laying the flume therein.\n19. Private claim holders putting in bed-rock flumes to connect with bed-rock\nflumes put in by Bed-rock Flume companies, shall maintain the like grade, and\nbuild their flumes as thoroughly and of as strong materials as are used by Bedrock Flume companies.\n20. Individual or company claim holders, after the bed-rock flume has been extended through their respective claims at their own expense, shall have the right at\nany time before the abandonment of their claim or claims to become members\nof the bed-rock flume company, by uniting their claim or claims with the ground\nof the company, and taking an interest proportionate to the area of the ground\nwhich they shall cede to the company, or work their ground on their own account, at their option.\n21. Bed-rock Flume companies, authorized and organized as aforesaid, shall be\nentitled to the use and enjoyment of so much ofthe unoccupied and unappropriated water of the stream or streams on which they may be located, and of other\nadjacent streams as may be necessary for the use of their flumes, hydraulic power, and machinery to carry on their mining operations, and shall\nhave the right of way for ditches and flumes, to convey the necessary water to\ntheir works, they being liable to other parties for any damage which may arise\nfrom running such ditch or flumes through or over their ground.\n22. Bed-rock flumes, and any interest or interests therein, and all fixtures, are\nhereby declared to be personal property, and may be sold, mortgaged, transfer-\ned, or otherwise dealt with as such.\n\"Abandoned    ground\"\nhow construed.\nBed-rock Flume Companies working \".abandoned ground\" to be governed by Clause 12.\nRivers,creeks, &c.,when\nnot deemed abandoned.\nBoundaries of Bed-rock\nFlume Company's claim,\nhow fixed.\nAfter due notice, Bedrock Flume Company can\nlay flume on any claim.\nHolder of such claim entitled to gold in flume*\nWhat graces to be maintained by private claim\nholders.\nRight of claim holders\nwho have borne expense\nof Bed-rock Flume to become members of Bedrock Flume Company.\nRight of Bed-rock Flume\nCompany to water.\nBed-rock Flumes declared personal property.\n Bed-rock Flume Company how registered, and\nfees payable.\nIndividual claim holders\nfluming, subject to same\nrules.\nPrivate company may a-\nbandon claims, and appropriate gold in flume.\nSuch flume deemed abandoned, and to revert to\nBed-rock Flume Company,\nBed-rock Flume notice.\nDeads arid leavings not\nto obstruct stream.\nMinors of 16 (when partners) to be deemed adult free miners.\nMining Co-partnerships.\nMinutes of Co-partnership . when no deed ' of\npartnership exists,\nDuration of mining Copartnership.    .\nConfined to [mining,\nPowers of a majority,\nAssessments, when payable.\nPayment   of assessment,\nin default how enforced.\n23. Bed-rock Flume companies, authorized and organized as aforesaid, shall\nmeasure off their ground, set up their stakes, post their notices, and register their\nclaims, in the same manner as individual free miners are required to do, and\nshall pay five pounds sterling per annum in addition to the registration fee for \u2022\neach half mile of claim and right of way legally held by such company.\n24. Individual or company claim holders, building bed-rock flumes through their\nown ground, to connect with similar flumes built by Bed-rock Flume companies\nshall be subject to the same rules and regulations, with regard to cleaning up\nthe flume repairs and other matters, in which both parties are interested, and\npertaining to the rights hereby authorized and confirmed, as maybe adopted by\nsuch Bed-rock Flume company.\n25. Provided that if any private or company claim holders shall desire to abandon their respective claims, they may give notice to such Bed-rock Flume\ncompany of such intention, and shall then have the right to proceed at once to\nclean up their portion of such flume, or wait until such company cleans up, and\nthen take all the gold which may be found in their portion of such flume.\nProvided also that when such individual or company claim holders shall have\ngiven the notice aforesaid, and cleaned up their section of the said flume, such\nclaims shall be deemed to be abandoned with the flume therein, and such abandonment shall revert to the benefit of such Bed-rock Flume company.\n26. Any free miners or company of free miners applying for the privilege of constructing a bed-rock flume, shall comply with the requirements of clause twenty\nfour (24) of the Gold Fields Rules and Regulations, issued on the 7th day of\nSeptember, 1859, and also put up a notice of such application in some conspicuous part of the town place, or at the Court Blouse nearest to the locality applied for, at least five clear days before making such application.\n27. The period at the end of clause two (2) of the Rules and Regulations issued on the 24th day of February, 1863, is hereby struck out and the following\nwords added thereto, to wit: \"or shaft, and in no case shall the said deads or\n.leavings, forkings from sluices, waste dirt, large stones, or tailings be allowed to\naccumulate so as to obstruct the natural course of the stream.\n28. The interests of minors over sixteen years of age, shall be subject to\nthe same laws as apply to the interests of adult free miners, and they shall enjoy\nthe same rights thereto as adults, but no person under the age of sixteen years\nshall be capable of holding any claim, or interest therein,\n29. And whereas, it is necessary to provide facilities for the formation of\nmining co-partnerships, be it enacted\nThat all mining companies shall be governed by the provisions hereof,\nunless they shall have other and written articles of co-partnership properly\nsigned, attested, and recorded.\n30. No mining co-partnership shall continue for a longer time than one\nyear, unless otherwise specified in writing by the parties, but such co-partnership may be renewed at the expiration of each year.\n31. The business of the co-partners herein referred to shall be mining, and\nsuch other matters as pertain solely thereto,\n32. A majority of the co-partners, or their legally authorized agents, may\ndecide the manner of working the claims of the co-partners, the number of men\nto be employed, and extent and manner of levying assessments to defray the\nexpense of working the claim or claims ofthe company and all other matters pertaining thereto. Provided that every such company's claim shall be represented\naccording to law. Such majority may also choose a foreman or focal manager, who\nshall represent the company, and have power to bind such company by his contracts,\nand sue and be sued in the name of the company for assessments and otherwise;\nand every such partnership must register its partnership or company name with\nthe Gold Commissioner.\n33. All assessments levied during the time of working, shall be payable\nwithin ten clear days after each such assessment.\n34. Any party failing or refusing to pay any assessment or assessmentse leviable according to the provisions of this Act, after having received any notice\nthereof, specifying the amount due during the period the said party\nmay be delinquent, shall be personally liable to his co-partners for the amount\nof such delinquency, and the amount of such delinquents indebtedness having\nbeen ascertained by a court of competent jurisdiction, his interest in said company's claim may be sold for the payment of the amount foitW due, with interest\n(if any) and costs a\/= hereafter specified,\n 35. The notice of sale of such delinquent's interest, or such part thereof as shall\nsuffice to pay the amount of indebtedness, with interest and costs as aforesaid,\nshall be published by advertisement in some newspaper published in the district, for ten days prior to the day of sale, and if there be no newspaper published in the district, then notices of such sale shall be posted for the same\nlength of time, in the vicinity, of the claim or interest to be sold, and at the\nCourt house nearest thereto. Such sale shall be by public auction to the bidder offering to pay the amount due for the smallest portion of said claim or interest. The purchaser at such sale on payment of the purchase money, shall\nacquire all the right, title and interest of the delinquent, in and to the interest\nsold, and shall be entitled to the immediate possession thereof.\n36. The following part of clause (7) seven of the Gold Fields' Act, 1859, shall\nbe deemed to have been never repealed, that is to say,\nNo person shall be recognized as having any right or interest in or to any\nclaim or ditch, or any ofthe gold therein, unless he shall be, or in case Of disputed ownership, unless he shall have been at the time ofthe dispute arising, a\nfree miner.\n37. Clause 3 ofthe Proclamation of 25th day of March, 1863, is hereby repealed, and the following provisions be substituted in lieu thereof:\nIn addition to the above rights, every registered free miner shall be entitled\nto the use of so much of the water naturally flowing through or past his claim,\nand not already, lawfully appropriated; as shall in the opinion of the Gold Commissioner be necessary for the due working thereof.\n38. It shall be lawful for the Gold Commissioner previous to recording a claim\nor interest therein or other matter, to demand from the applicant the production,\nof his free miner's certificate, and upon his refusal or neglect to produce the\nsame, to refuse to record such claim,, interest, or other matter.\n39. For every record which the Gold Commissioner shall be called upon to make\nwhether of leave of absence granted or any matter or thing whatever, relating\nto mining, and for which a special fee shall not have been provided by any law,\nrate or regulation in that behalf in force for the time being, the Gold Commissioner shall charge a registration fee of ten ^shillings and sixpence, but for every\nsearch of a record only four shillings and two pence.\n40. No distinguishing number shall hereafter be required, or be deemed to have\nbeen ever required, for or in respect to any claim, any existing law or rule to\nthe contrary notwithstanding.\n41. All gold found in any gold mine in the Colony, shall be deemed and taken\nto be ore of gold, within the meaning ofthe statute.\n42. No claim located and recorded in any district within 14 days after the\nclaims therein shall have been laid over by the Gold Commissioner till the ensuing season or other specific date, shall be allowed or deemed to be so laid over,\nunless so much work shall have been bond fide expended thereon by\nthe holders thereof, as shall in the opinion of the Gold Commissioner fairly entitle him to have such claim laid over.\n43. Every free miner shall be allowed three days in which to record his\nclaim by pre-emption after the same shall have been located, if such claim\nshall be within 10 miles of the Gold Commissioner's office, if more than ten\nmiles from it then one additional day shall be allowed for every additional ten\nmiles or fraction often miles, as the case may be.\n44. Every adult free miner shall be allowed to hold two claims by pre-emption,\nviz: one quartz claim and one other claim and no more at the same time, but by\npurchase may hold any number or amount of claims or interests therein, which\nhave been once duly located and registered, subject to the laws for the time\nbeing regulating the same. And every adult free miner may lawfully sell,\nmortgage, transmit, or dispose of any number of claims or interests therein, lawfully held or acquired by him, whether by pre-emption or purchase.\n45. The amount of interest which a free miner has in his claim shall, save as\nagainst Her Majesty, Her'Heirs, and Successors, be deemed and taken to be a\nchattel interest equivalent to a lease for a year, renewable at the end cf the first\nand every subsequent year, subject to the conditions as to forfeiture, working,\nrepresentation, registration, and otherwise, for the time being in force with respect to such claim or interest under any Law or Rule regulating the same.\nProvided that every forfeiture of a claim under any such Lav\/ or Rule shall\nbe absolute, any Rule or Law or equity to the contrary notwithstanding.\nNotice of Sale.\nNo one recognized except\na free miner in a claim.-\nMiners record covers only\nunappropriated water.\nProduction of free miner's\ncertificate before record.\nGeneral fee on recording\nmining matter.\nDistinguishing    number\nof claims abolished.\n: Gold in claim to be ore\nof gold.\nClaims recorded in the\nclosfe season when laid\nover.\nThree days' grace for\nevery 10 miles before record.\nLimits   claims   by   preemption to two claims. .\nWhat is a miner's interest\nin a claim.\nForfeiture absolute.\n 6\nDeceased     free  miner's\nclaims not forfeitable.\nGold Commissioner may\nkeep afoot or sell deceased\nminer's claim.\nGold Commissioner's conveyance a good title.\nNotice of official  administration.\nAllowance to Gold Commissioner.\nFees on   registration   as\nin Schedule.\nCertified copy of record\nevidence.\nSaving of Crov n Rights.\n46. In case ofthe death of any free miner, while registered as the holder of any\nclaim or ditch, his claim or interest shall not be open to tne occupation of any\nother person for non-working or non-representation, either after his decease or\nduring the illness which shall have terminated in his decease.\n47. And in all cases where the Gold Commissioner shall find that such free\nminer shall be possessed of a claim or ditch, or interest therein, he may cause\nthe same to be duly represented until sale on such terms as he shall think just,\nor dispense with the same at his option, or may sell such claim, ditch, or interest by Auction, after ten days' public notice thereof, for such price as in his\njudgment he shall deem just and fair, and for the purpose aforesaid, the Gold\nCommissioner may employ and pay out of any assets of the deceased, which may\ncome to his hands, such valuers or persons as may be necessary.\n48. Every assignment of any such interest by the Gold Commissioner shall convey to the assignee all the right and interest of the deceased miner, thereby purported to be conveyed, and shall be subject to the same registration and fees as\nif such assignment had been made by such miner before his decease.\n49. The Gold Commissioner shall in all cases of death of every registered free\nminer, give notice thereof as soon as conveniently may b^, and also of any acts\nand interferences of such Gold Commissioner, to the official administrator, who\nshall in all cases which may seem fitting, take out probate or letters of administration as the case may require, and collect and get in the estate and effects\nof the deceased in the usual and proper way; no such dealing or interference, as\naforesaid, by the Gold Commissioner shall make him in any way liable as an\nexecutor de son tort, or in any way liable for unintentional losses or in any other\nresponsibility, than to account to the personal representative of the deceased,\nwhen duly constituted, for all monies actually received and expended by him in\nthe matter of the estate and effects of the deceased.\n50. Every Gold Commissioner who shall so act in the collection and custody of\nthe estate and effects as aforesaid, shall be entitled to his own use, to an allowance thereout not exceeding in any case five per cent on the whole amount\ncollected.\n51. On the registration of any ofthe matters, acts, deeds, documents, or things\nmentioned on the Schedule hereto, there shall be payable in respect thereof by\nthe party seeking such registration, the several duties and sums of money sot opposite such matters, acts, deeds, documents, and things respectively in the Schedule\nhereto, such payments to be taken by the Gold Commissioner or other officer\neffecting the registration at the time of each registration, and for the use of Her\nMajesty, Her Heirs and Successors.\n52.. Every sale, mortgage, alienation or other disposition of any claim, ditch or other\nmining property, or of any interest therein respectively, shall be made by an In-\nstrunmnt in writing which shall be registered with the Gold Commissioner, or other\nofficer duly authorized in that behalf in the district in which such property is\nsituated, in separate books to be kept by him for the purpose, and every such conveyance, mortgage, or other document shall set forth truly expressed in words at\nlength, the full bond fide price, consideration, or value that has been or has to be paid\ndirectly or indirectly in each transaction, or in default thereof shall be void.\n53. In case of any dispute, the titles to claims, leases of auriferous earth or\nrock, ditches or water privileges will be recognized according to the priority of\nregistration, subject only to any question which may be raised as to the validity\nof any particular act of Registration.\n5-1. Every copy or extract from any record or register, under or by virtue of this\nact, or the Gold Field's Act, of 1859, the Proclamation of 25th clay of March, 1863,\nor any Gold Rules and Regulations required to be kept by any Gold Commissioner,\nand certified to be a true copy or extract under the hand of the Gold Commissioner, or other person authorized to take and keep such record or register, shall\nin the absence of the original register, be receivable in any judicial proceedings\nas evidence of all matters and things therein appearing.\n55. Nothing herein shall be construed to limit, or abridge the prerogative\nrights of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in or to the Gold Fields of\nBritish Columbia.\n 56. This Act  shall be  construed as far as possible with  the Gold Fields'    To be  construed as  one\nAct, 1859, and Proclamation ofthe 25th day of March, 1863, and the Rules and    with the  Gold   Field*'\nAct 1859.\nSchedule part of Act.\nRegulations made in pursuance thereof respectively.\n57. The Schedule hereto shall be part of this Act .\n58. 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