The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-14 00:00:00

THE NEW AUSTRALIAN GOLD REGU-
LATIONS.

(From the Sydney Government Gazette, April 2.)
Colonial Secretary's Odic', Sydney,
March 29, 18.52.
Hie Excellency the Governor-General has ken
pleased, with the advice of the Esrcutive Council, to direct
that the following consolidatrd and amended code of cirri,.
lations for the management of the gold fields be published
for general information :-
1. ALLUVIAL UOLD.
1. cnow:v Licassr.s.

1. No person wilt be permitted to dig, search for, or re.
move gold on or from any land, public or private, without
Ant taking out a license in the form annexed. All trod
procured without due authority will be seized, as being
the property of the crown, 111 whose posseasiim server it
may be.
2. The license fee for crown lands has been fined at one
pound ten shillings per month, to be paid ielleilvanee. These
licensee only extend to the extraction of alluvial gold,
matrix gold being the subject of other regulations, which
will be found in a subsequent part of the present code.
3. Licenses Con be obtained on the gold field front the
eommisaioner or assistant commissioner, uppointed by his
Excellency the Governor•Gen,ral to carry the regulations
into effect, and who so authurised to receive the fee payable
thereon.

4. No person will be eligible to obtain a license, or the
renewal of a license, unless he shall produce a certificate of
discharge (ruin his last service, or show to the satisfaction of
the commissioner, or ••i.tant commissioner, that he is not
a person improperly absent from hired service.
6. Persons desirous of establishing claims to new and un-
occupied ground, by working in the ordinary method for
alluvial gold, may have their claims marked out on the fol-
lowing scale to each person, namely :
1. Fifteen feet frontage to either side of a river or unlit
creek.
2. Twenty feet of the bed of a tributary to a river or
main creek, extending across its whole breadth.
3. Sixty feet of the bed of a ravine or water course.
4. Twenty feet square of table laud or river fiats.
6. These claims will be secured to the parties for rich
time only as they may continue to hold licenses for the nine,
notes* in cases of flood, or othi r such unavoidable acrid. at
u shall, in the opinion of the commissioner or assistant
commissioner, render a suspension of the work inevitable.
7. The above licenses may be cancelled, and the claims
forfeited, in consequence of the conviction of the holikrs,
in any court of competent jurisdiction, of the illicit sale of
spirits, or if any disorderly or riotous conduct endanger tho
public morals or peace.
11. Persons found working alluvial gold on any land,
public or private, without having previously paid the
license tee to the proper officer, shall pay double the amount
for such license ; and, in default, be proceeded ngaiotht in
the usual manner.

9. If eny din ate shall arise in respect of any claim,
reference should he forthwith made by the complainant to
the commissioner or assistant-conimissioner of the district,
who will lose no time in hearing and summarily determining
the case on the spot, according to the evidence adduced on
either side, giving due notice, of course, to the party com-
plained of. If necessary, he will take the proper measures
for placing end maintaining the successful party in pories•
lion of the claim.