The record-union., 1897-08-16
A Good Portion of the Profit Of Miners Will
be ConfisCated.
Ten Per Cent. Levied On Claims
Paying Five Hundred Dollars
Per Week and Twenty Per
Amount Taken Out of British
Territory.

OTTAWA (Ont.), Aug. 15.-The regu-
lations formulated by the Dominion
Government covering the collection of
a royalty on gold mined in the Yukon
are published in the official gazette just
issued. They are as follows:
That upon all gold mined in the
claims referred to is the regulation for
the Government of placer mining along
the Yukon River and its tributaries, a
royalty Of 10 per cent. shall be levied
and collected by officers to be appointed
for the purpose, provided that the
amounts mined and taken from a single
claim does not exceed $500 per week,
and in case the amount mined and
taken from any single claim does ex-
ceed $500 per week there shall be lev
led and collected a royalty of 10 per
cent upon the amount as taken out
up to $500, and upon the excess or
amount taken from any single claim
over $500 per week there shall be levied
and collected a royalty of 20 per cent,
such royalty to form part of the con-
soidated revenue and to be accounted
for by the officers who collect the same
in due course
THE time and manner in which the
royalty shall be collected and the per-
sons who shall collect the same shall
be provided for by the regulations to
be made by the Gold Commissioner, and
that the Gold Commissioner be and is
hereby given authority to make such
regulations and rules accordingly.
Default in payment of such royalty,
If continued for ten days after notice
has been posted upon the claim in re-
Spect of which it is demanded, or in
the vicinity of such claim by the Gold
Commissioner or his agent, shall be fol-
lowed by the cancellation Of the claim;
that any attempt to defraud the Crown
by Withholding amy revenue thus pro-
vided for by making false statements
of the amount taken out may be pun
ishable by cancellation of the claim, in
respect Of which such fraud or false
statements have been committed or
made, and that in respect of facts as
10 sucn a fraud or false statement or
non-payment of royalty the decision
of the Gold Commission shall be final.'
The regulations governing the dis
poSal of placer mining claims along the
Yukon River and it's tributaries are
amended SO that entry. can only be
granted for alternate claims, known as
creek claims, bunch claims, bar dig
gings, and that the other alternate
claims be reserved for the Crown, to be
disposed of by public auction, or in
such manner as may be decided by the
Minister of the Interior.
The penalty of trespassing upon
claim reserved for the Crown is the
immediate cancellation by the Gold
Commissioner of any entry and entries
which the person trespassing may have
obtained, whether by original entry or
purchase for a mining claim, and the
refusal by the Gold Commissioner OF
Ahe acceptance of any application which
the person trespassing may at any time
make for claims, and that, in addition
TO such penalty, the mounted police,
upon a requisition from the Gold Com
missioner to that effect, may take the
necessary steps to eject the trespasser.
The clause in the former regulations
providing that the discoverer of a new
mine is entitled to claim and shall be
granted a claim for bar diggings' 40
feet in length has been amended so
that the grant may apply to the creek
and river claims instead of to bar dig
gings.