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

11. MATRIX GOLD.

1. Persons desirous of working auriferous quartz Wale
may make application in writing to the commissioner or as.
aistant commissioner of the gold district, accurately describ-
ing the locality. Such application shall be immediately re-
corded by such officer in a 000 k to be kept for the purpose,
which shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection
of applicants. Incase no previous application shall have been
made is the manner above described, and should there be no
valid objection to the proposal, from interference with allu-
vial digging or any other sufficient cause, the commiuioner,
on the same being approved of by the government, shall
notify to the government his acceptance of the same. The
applicant shall then enter into a bond, binding himself and •
his partners, should the government be satisfied with the
sufficiency of the parties, jointly and severally, in the sum
of 1,0001, to pay a royalty of 10 per cent. on all gold ob-
tained to an officer to be appointed for that purpose by the
government. If the government be not satisfied with the
sufficiency of the appl;cant, then two or more solvent and
responsible parties must be named. lie shall further be
bound to permit such officer to reside on the laud in the
neighbourhood of the works at such spot so may be ueignod
by the ounraissioner, end also to give such officer access at
all reasonable times to the buildings or premises, and to all
books and accounts connected with the production of gold;
also, to give all necessary facilities for the collection of the
royalaily or weekly, as easy be found most desirable. .
2. AlAll buildings, machinery, or other improvements
erected or made ou the land shell be considered : a addi-
tional security for the due performance of the conditions of
the bond.

i.fheelaim shall consist of half a mile of, and in the
course of, the vein, with a quarter of • mile reserved on
each side of such vein fur building and other purposes ne-
cessary for carrying on operations. The right of cutting or
using timber for building or for firewood from adjacent
crown lands, as well as acmes to neighbouring water, shall
alsa be conceded; and, where the public convenience shall
not suffer thereby, the commissioner or assistant-commis-
sioner of tho district will be empowered to grant the
exclusive right to necessary water, whether on the half-
mile square enclosing the vein, or in the immediate neigh-
bourhood.

4. The beds of rivers or main creeks, intersected by
veins, included in such claims, are nut excluded from
license to the public generally, except for a distance of
fifty yards on each side of such veins. But, with this ex-
ception, no licenses shall be given to the public to dig fee '
'fluvial gold on such claims. The holders of the claim%
however, who may desire to work alluvial gold, must take
out licenses on payment of the usual fee of thirty shil-
lings monthly for such number of persons as they may
employ for this purpose.
5. A claim such as the above shall he forfeited by the
failure of the applicant to enter within • reasonable period,
to be notified to him by the commissioner in writing, into
the required bond, by his neglecting to pay the prescribed
royalty at the time and in the manner required by the
bond; by his not employing at least twenty persons, or
machinery equivalent, calculated at the rate of one horse
power to seven men, on such claim within six months of
the acceptance of his application fur the same, unless such
time shall bo specially extended by the government—by
his ceasing to employ that number of persons or such ma-
chinery on the works for one month thereafter—by his em-
ploying unlicensed persons to work alluvial gold on the
claim, by obstructing the officer in the proper performance
of his duty, or in any other way violating the terms of the
bend. Such vein shall then be open to selection by other
parties.
6. The duration of the claim shell be three years, which,
however, shall be extended for such further period as upon
receipt of instructions from her Majesty's government may
be determined upon, having due regard to the interests of
the parties concerned. At the expiration of the term of
their holding, or on the sooner determination of the tenure
by the consent of the government, the parties shall have
liberty to remove all buildings, machinery, or other im-
provements erected or made by them, and • reasonable
time shall be given for that purpose, provided always that
the conditions of the bond shall have been duly fulfilled.
7. No portion of land previously occupied under claims
for alluvial gold will he open to selection fur matrix gold
while it continues to be worked for the former.

11. PRIVATE LAM).

Persons desirous of working auriferous quarts TCIO3 on
private lauds, shall to subject to the terms of the abovo
regulations, with the exception that the royalty payable
on the gross product of the gold shall be hive per cent., and
that they shall not bo compelled to employ any specified
number of persons, nor be liable to any penalty on their
ceasing to work.
TRADERS' LICENSES.

Persons occupying portions of the gold field, by erectang•
temporary buildings, tents, &c., and carrying on any basi-

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1M,,, or following any trade or edits', drill p_agya he of
se
ph, sootily, for the ass of the loads mom the.
ina they are required to pay the leas eh diced, rod it;
~,tranee, to the odiccr appointed te sushi motet of
',wee tees. Such license may be mmssllwi sit say time,
mould the land be required fee say pietas peones. or Is
ovequenee of the cionvictiont of tbs liesomi oesupost, la
gey court of oompetentjerishilla, of the Mit sale of
mints, or of my deord e fly or deems eleheet eemlassories
e.v p,blie mwhie or peace; eedl is se MS IP. Say claim
w romp, nation for improvemealls be posegaleel.
lv. I.ts a HELD two's PASTORAL SAMS.
plaadoe Inconvenience being felt from the OOPS lades lease,
w woo, of the renulatious of the 29th a 1=
such portions of the crown lands as IN ism
ander licenses for digging gold, it hes Weems to
s.. remote the leases in all such one es teen hi by
the oimmiesioner or assistant roamehelseee le be heilabio
for securing to the licensed miners the 111111Malilail PPOSSIRe•
lien of their employment. On reecielsg ma mom as
actessary notice will be given to the teesserair Ns
cotkor. of the termination of their beam eh. =
Duo of one mouth ; and the suns paid by emit term for
the Laud resumed, or the proportion payable flew Oka fa•
!winder of the term, will be refunded, as provided he la
the npalmions referred to. In acting on this stipelatioe,
so ort Ater interference with the interests of lbs Imes will
be ...stationed 'ban may be absolutely esseerry is ewers
the ...,j,ct contemplated•
Isir.ii referred to :
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GOLD LICENSE.

No. 18.3
The hearer. , having paid to me the
suns of one pounl ten shillings oa account of the terri-
w,,J levees', I t ereby license him to dig, march for, and
NilloW alluvial gold on and from any such mown land as I
dull assign to him fur that purpose, during the month
el 134 , subject to the government
mtulations in force for the time Whig for the manegement
to he gold lie id.
Thu ;I.conwe does not extend to matrix gold, end must be
p,..1,,Ct a whenever cleoutuded by me or any other person
uueg solder the authority of the goveroment.
A. 8., Commissioner.

ESTZILITES OF TILE ENTIRE tIOLD PRODUCT
OF CALIFORNIA.
visa posity, It-,01, and IlalCa trail annual Circular.)
Mail report of ili posits of gold from California :
dole.
m ta, miss I. ,ter Mints in 1848 44,177
1849 6,147,609
1185.0 36,074,082
gardirsa.4• B(sta:4p...rt 66,938432
Is Deershis, I, 4. isho:n dod cot reach the
Mats is 1861 2,910,214
&parts to fir. ~u iountriis w Ihscraber 31,
Nil, whet, nut reach I:sitcd States
Mists

Eiitimsted aninuit taken overland to Mexico
mil by passenger* to Europe, East ladies,
Austrulis. South America (exclusive of
tumutacturect iu California aad U.
Site.. and otherwise, retained by iadivi-
the country, and therefore not
prescoteit to the mint deposits, say Ave per
i, lit. or above
li, hands of beakers, merchants. mid traders
in Om Emaciate. per tabular matemeat pro
owed Dec. 31, Itail
In hands of b.ollset, and traders In other part'
of California and Of. Ron, Dec. 31, 1851 2,500,000
Estimattil half month's yield at minas mot
brought forelta Dee., 1851, say
In circulation—gold dust and California pri-
vate ruin, estimated at 20 dots. per indivi-
dual, and population estimated at 212,000
Estimated product to Dee. 31, 1851
Ditto ditto from dia. 1 to Joe 30, 1852 33,849,774
Total ditto ditto to Joao 30, 1832 174,780,87

STATISTIC* Or TIM POrI:LATION OF CALIZOS
ha enrage of the but rinsed computations moth One
ear genet population at 240,000. Mivals of
Menai the tint sic mamba of the yeas were abseil=
?Imre se every appentente that the seawasi Immbyethea
will condom to be as lege ter nu smiths he ease It I
emanaig ~INA mime to suable 4•011111.
'Winne for dilater es 11,1100, we they meet le base
milieu= of 300,000 by the SIM M the year-0071:4017
mat. Wier as& the peeem p
ed eplatles thb
ot the must this embeakeies base net mimes
Were. The . israstsil..l tbe same re is as.
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