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race shall be paid within six weeks after actual sluicing has been commenced. 15. The Manager shall turn on the water from the race for the supply of purchasers, and turn off the same; and no person shall turn on water or turn it off, or in any way interfere with the gauges, except by authority of the Manager. 16. Any person desiring to cut a tail-race to run into or connect with the sludge channel shall apply in writing to the Manager, stating where the proposed tail-race will connect with the channel, its intended dimensions and "fall;" and if on inquiry the Manager shall be of opinion that such race may be safely allowed to be connected with the channel, he shall certify accordingly to the Warden. 17. No certificate for airy tail-race to be connected with or run into the sludge channel shall be granted by the Warden, unless it shall be certified to him by the Manager as aforesaid that such tail-race may be safely so constructed. 18. The Manager shall not, without special sanction of the Warden, certify for the construction of any tail-race to be connected with and run into the channel of a greater incline than 5 inches in 12 feet for a distance back from the point of junction of two chains. 19. No tail-race shall be allowed to be made to connect with the sludge channel upon its eastern side, unless the same be tunnelled in the solid earth for a length of at least 66 feet from the bank of the sludge channel, or be boxed for the same length, and the earth filled in to the surface; and every such tail-race shall be fitted with a sufficient gate, which shall, if required by the Manager, be kept closed during floods : Provided always that this regulation shall not apply to the extension of the channel known as Brook's Eace. 20. No tail-race or head-race or flood channel shall be made nearer to the sludge channel thau 66 feet on its eastern side and 33 feet on its western side, except by consent of the Manager. 21. AVhen any tail-race shall have been made under tho authority of these regulations, to be connected with and run into the channel, it shall be lawful for the owner or occupier of such tail-race to run water and tailings through it into the channel, subject to these regulations. 22. It shall be lawful for the Manager to assess the carrying capacity and average discharge of any tail-race that shall be connected with and run into the sludge chanel, and the number of " Hogburn-heads" so estimated as the average discharge shall be mentioned on the "water ticket" which the Manager shall give to the owner or occupier of the tail-race; and the owner or occupier shall pay weekly, in advance, the fees for the said number of " Hogburnheads " run into the sludge channel. 23. In case the owner or occupier of any tail-race shall be dissatisfied with the Manager's assessment of average discharge as aforesaid, he may appeal to the Warden, who shall thereupon confirm or vary such assessment, and the decision of the AVarden shall be final. 24. No person using airy tail-race shall be allowed to discharge water or tailings into the sludge channel, unless he shall have paid, in advance, the fees for the average discharge of such race as aforesaid. 25. The owner or occupier of any tail-race discharging water and tailings into the sludge channel,

shall at any time cease to so discharge water and tailings when required so to do by the Manager, either verbally or in writing. 26. In case any person who shall have paid in advance for a supply of water, or for the privilege of discharging water and tailings into the sludge channel, shall cease to require such water or privilege, it shall be lawful for him to obtain a refund of the unappropriated balance of the money so paid by him ; and such refund shall be payable out of the Colonial Treasury upon a voucher certified by the Manager. 27. It shall be lawful for the Manager, with the approval of the Warden, at any time and from time to time when water is plentiful, to grant, for a specified period to be named in the grant, not exceeding three months at any one time, supplies of water for prospecting new ground between the Coal Pit Gully Eeservoir and the head of the water-race, at half-price ; and he shall immediately on the issue of any such grant report the same in writing to the Warden.

SCHEDULE. Form A. Form A. Water Ticket. WATER TICKET. No. 187 . No. To the Receiver of Revenue, Naseby. Name Please receive from weekly, in advance, until otherwise adDate vised by me, the fees for supplies of water from Mount Ida Public Water-raco, Heads of water and for the privilege of running water and tailings into the Naseby Sludge Channel, Heads to run into as under mentioned. channel Hogburn-Heads. Water from Race Manager. Channel privilege Manager. Form B. Form B. RECEIPT. Mount Ida Public Water-race and _ Sludge Channel. Receipt. No. Naseby, 187 . Received from , water money and channel fees as under-mentioncJ. Date . Hogburn „ . , Name Heads. Perlod- ~ Channel fees £ s- d. Water Total Channel fees Receiver. Receiver.

Given under my hand, at AVellington, this seventh day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven. J. D. Oemond, Minister for Public AVorks.

By Authority: Geobgk Didsbuey, Government Printer, Wellington. —1877.

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