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Gold Mining Regulations. 
 
 btPARTMENT OF CrOWN LaNDS, 
 
 Crown Domain Branch. 
 
 Quebec, ^i3nd April, 1864. 
 
 ' I^HE following Gold Mining Rejulations have been 
 A approved of by His Excbllencv th« Governor 
 UKNXRAL in Council, viz : 
 
 1. Gold mining shall be held to mean any rrtode of 
 bbtaining or collecting (Jold from the natural deposits 
 Or rooks of the Country. 
 
 2. No person shall be allowed to Work any Gold 
 tnitle \i'ithout a licence. 
 
 , 3. The rights Of the Crown in respect to Gold shall 
 Le transferred by temporary licences. 
 
 4. No Royalty shall be exacted. 
 
 5. Gold mining licences shall be issued to tH pro- 
 prieior of any land, such licence to convey tht rij^ht 
 to wo>k for the Gold on the lot ; to be issued for lots 
 xjl one hundred acres, or arpenta, or less, as defined 
 by the existing surveys and to remain in force foj throe 
 tnonths, subject to renewal, by new application and 
 licence, (except in cases of change in ownership of 
 land), on the same terms and at the same rate ; con- 
 ditional on future orders of flis Excellency the 
 Governor General in Council, or Legislative Enact- 
 ments as respects Gold mines. 
 
 6. Applicants for a tract in unsurveycd territory 
 must furnish apian of survey and description of the 
 land required, by a Provincial Land Surveyor, such 
 tract not to comprise more than four hundred acres, 
 and to be of the dimensions or proportion of forty 
 tjhains by one hundred chains, bounded by lines 
 Tunning due North and South and East and West, or 
 as near to these proportions as the configuration of the 
 locality will admit. A separate licence to be t.ken 
 for each 100 acres. 
 
 7. The number of persons authorized to be em- 
 ployed in mining for Gold shall be not less than five 
 fer licence, including all employed either directly or 
 jndirectly on the work, and the licenced shall be 
 issued on the payment of one dollar ,'or each pernon 
 80 employed, subject to a further payment of one 
 dollar lor each additional person employed. 
 
 8. Monthly returns under oath must be made, to 
 the Inspector of mines for the Division, of the 
 persons employed, the amount of GoK; extracted per 
 day and any luriher information which His Excel- 
 lency the Governor General in Council may direct. 
 
 9. Any increase in the n'-rnber of persons to be 
 employed under the licence must be notified to the 
 Inspector of mines for the Division within ten days of 
 Such employment accompanied by payment of the 
 additional fee. 
 
 10. In cases where a lot borders on a stream, not 
 included therein, the licjnce will go to the middle 
 thereof j where a stream crosses a lot the same will 
 be comprised in the li.ence, subject in all cases to 
 the public rights in navigable or floatable waters. 
 
 11. Parties holiliiig Iiclmicbs shall liiive Itie right of 
 transfer, provided such transfer be notified in writing 
 to the Inspector of mines for the Division, and on 
 ■payment of a fee of one dollar. Such transfer and 
 payment shall be endorsed on the licence. 
 
 12. Purchacers or their assignees of Crown Lands 
 gold and only pariipjly paid for will be required to 
 pay up in full before obtaining a licence, and appli- 
 cants for licence on v.nant Crown Lands will be 
 required to purchase and pay up in full before receiving 
 a licence. 
 
 13. Applications for licence must be made in 
 •wriiing to the Inspector ol mines for the Division, 
 detailing title, pniof of which must bo furnished to 
 such Inspector. 
 
 14. Error or misrepresentalion by applicant as to 
 his right to, or ownership of the lanl, or failure to 
 comply wflh all or any the present Regulations or 
 future Orders of His Excellency the Governor (ienoral 
 in Council or Legislative Enactments having lef'e- 
 rence to Gold mines, to which the liceiicee will be 
 subject, shall entail immediate forfeiture of the 
 licence. 
 
 These Regulations shall not apply to the Seigniory 
 
 It has also pleaseil His Excellency the Gf.vernor 
 <Jeneral to apiwint the two following Guntlomeii to be 
 'Gold Mining Inspectors for the Divisions, on the South 
 
 Shore of the St. Lawrence, below mentioned, viz ! 
 Charles LErEBVRB de Bj:hef£uille, Esquire, for 
 the Division to be called the Chauiliire Division, to 
 comprise the territory lying to the North- East of the 
 line dividing the Counties of Nicolet. Arthabaska, 
 Wolfe and Compton, from the Counties of Lotbiniere, 
 Megantic and Beauce, (save the townships of Spauld- 
 ing> Dilohfleld, Clinton and Woburn, to be attached 
 to the ^t. Francis Division, hereinafter mentioned ;) 
 whose oflice will be at St. Francois de la Beauce, 
 and Daniei W. Mack, Esquire, <or the Division lo 
 he called the St. Francis Division, to comprise the 
 territory lying lo the .Souih-VVest of the same line. 
 With the four Townships above mentioned ; whoso 
 otHce Will be at Staiistead until funher orders, to 
 Whom all mi mg applications, (as per printed form 
 in their possession, and which they will supply to 
 intending applicants,) .,ie to be made. 
 
 The unsold Crown Lands in the following Townships 
 are for the present hereby set apart for sale for Gold 
 mining purposes, under the above hegulations, and 
 will be disposed of to the first applicant, at two dollars 
 per acre, payable cash in one sum, without settle- 
 ment duties, viz : 
 
 CHAUDIERE DIVISION. 
 
 .It rsey, Marlow, Risborough. Liniere, Watford, 
 Cranbourne, Framplon, S. W. parts of Buck land and 
 Standon and Augmentation and Meigormetle, in the 
 Agency of Andrew Ross, Esquire, Office at Framn- 
 ton. 
 
 ^ Ware and Langevin, in the Agency of F. Rouleau, 
 Esquire, Office at "t. Claire. 
 
 Daaquam and Mailloux, in the Agency of S. V. 
 Larue, Esquire, Office at .>-t. Charles, Riviere Boyer. 
 
 Bellechasse, Roiix and N. E. part of Biicklan.l, ir 
 the Aeency of F. Lamonlagne, Esquire, Office at St. 
 Gervais. 
 
 Thetford, Broughton, Leeds, Inverness, Ireland, 
 Halifax, Somerset and Nelson, in the Agency of Joha 
 Hume, Esciuire, Office at Leeds. 
 
 Price, Colraine, Adatock. Tring, Lambton, Forsyth, 
 Aylmer, Gayhurst and Shonley, in the Agency of 
 Louis Labrecque, Esquire, Office at Lambton. 
 ST. FRANCIS 'I VISION. 
 
 VVinslow, Whitton, Hampden, Ditton. Woburn, 
 Chesham, Marston, Clinton, Spauldingand Ditchfield 
 in the Agency of William Farwell, l^squire, Office at 
 HobiiiNoii. 
 
 Stanstead. Barnston, Barford, Hereford and Goto, 
 Auckland, (Hllon, Compton, Hatley, Magog formerly 
 Hatley, Orford, Ascott. Eaton, Newport, VVestbury, 
 Stoke, flromplon, Melbonrne, Shiplon, Cleveland, 
 Windsor, Dudswell and VVeedon, in the Agency of 
 John Fellon, Esquire, Officn at Sherbrooke. • 
 _ Potton, Suttun, Dunham, Slanbridge, Farnham, 
 Graiiby, Sheflijrd, Stukely, Ely, Roxton. Milton, 
 Bolton, limine and Magog formerly Bolton, in the 
 Agency of A. J. Kemp, Hsouire, Ottico at Waterloo. 
 
 Acl(in, Durham, Kiuifsey, Simpson, Wickham and 
 part of Upton, in the Agency of the Uonblo. William 
 Slie|)pard, Office at Wendover. 
 
 Woiton, Ham, South Ham. Wolfestown, Garthhy 
 ami Sliatlbrd, in the Agency of J. T. LeBel, Esquire, 
 Office at Wotton. 
 
 Warwick, (heater, Tingwick and Horton, in the 
 Agency of Antoine Gagnon, Esquire, Office at St. 
 ChriBlophe d'Arthabaska. 
 
 Arthabaska, Bul.-trode and StanfoM, for which there 
 IS at present no Agent; and applications to purchase 
 in these townships must bo made lo ihis Department. 
 
 Applications made for purchase of lots >.inco the .-^ale 
 in certain of the above townships was stayed, to be 
 taken nccording to priority of date, at the above price, 
 provided the same be renewed to the rospci^live 
 Crown Land Agents on or before the aOth day ~>( May 
 next ; afler said date in cases of siinultaneou^'applica- 
 lions lota will ho dispnseil of by the said AgeiitM to the 
 highest bidiler over the upset price of two ilollars per 
 Bcie. Not more than 4lH) acres will be sold to any one 
 pei-son. All applications lo be addressed to the Agents, 
 those tor unsurveyed tracts to bo accompanied with 
 required plan ijf siu > ey and description, connecting the 
 land survcyea Willi oomu known point of a previous 
 Gcvernment survey. 
 
 ANDREW RUSSELL, 
 
 Asst. Com. of Crown Lands. 
 
 QUEBSC !— Primed by Georok Debbarats and 
 
 Excellent 
 
 Malcolm Cameron, Printer to the (Queen's M(Mt 
 Majesty.