The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-16
CANADIAN REGULATIONS.
Published In Full In Gazette Just
Issued.

i Ottawa, Ont, Aug. 1.-THE regula-
tons formulated by the Dominion gov
eminent 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 on the
| claims referred to is the regulation fol-
! the government of placer mining along
| the Yukon river and is tributaries. a
I royalty of 10 per cent shall be levied
| and collected by officers to be appoint
ed for the purpose, provided that the
amount mined and taken from q sin
gle claim does not exceed $500 per
week, and in case the amount mined
and taken from any single claim does
exceed $500 per week there shall be
levied 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 lev
led and collected q royalty of 20 per
cent. such royalty to form part of the
consolidated revenue, and to be ac-
counted for by the officers who collect
the same in due course.
The time and manner in which roy
atty shall be collected and the persons
who shall collect the same shall be
provided for by the regulations to be
IldOS Ny lNS SOlu cOIilIlllSSlOner ana
that the gold commissioner be and is
hereby given authority to make such
regulations and rules accordingly.
That default in payment of such roy
atty, if continued for ten days after
notice has been posted upon the claim
in respect of which it is demanded, or
in the vicinity of such claim by the
gold commissioner or his assistant shall
be followed by the cancella ton of the
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the crown by Withholding any revenue
thus provided for by making false
statements of the amount taken out
may be punishable by cancellation of
the claim, in respect of which such
fraud or false statements have been
committed or made, and that in re-
spect of facts as to such a fraud or
false statement or non-payment of
royalty, the decision of the gold com
mission shall be final.
The regulations governing the dis
posal of placer mining claims along the
Yukon river and its tributaries are
amended SO that entry can only be
granted for alternate claims, known as
creek claims, bench claims. bar dig
gings and dry diggings, and that the
other alternate claims be reserved for
the crown. to be disposed CT by public
auction, in such manner as may be de-
The penalty for trespassing upon a
claim reserved for the crown is the i'm
mediate cancellation by the gold COM
missioner 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 of the gold commissioner of the !
acceptance of any application which the
Derscn trespassing may at any time
make for claims, and that in addition to
such penalty, the mounted police, upon |
a recuisition from the gold commits !
sioner to that effect, may take the nee
essary steps to eject the @respasser.
The clause in the former regulations, !
that the discoverer of a new
mine is entitled to claim and shall be |
granted a claim for bar diggings" 750 I
feet in length, has been amended so (
that the grant may apply to the creek |
and river claims, instead of to bar dig |
gingS.