25. The Government Engineer shall, when required, certify a copy which is shown to his satisfaction to be a true copy of any Special Rules which for the time being are established under this Chapter in any mine, and a copy so certified shall be evidence (but not to the exclusion of other proof) of such Special Rules, and of the fact that they are duly established under this Chapter and have been signed by the Government Engineer.

26. For the purpose of making known the provisions of this Chapter, and of the Special Rules to all persons employed in and about each mine, an abstract of this Chapter, supplied by the Department of Agriculture and Mines, and a correct copy of all the Special Rules, shall be published as follows:

(1) The owner, agent, or manager of the mine shall cause the said abstract and copy of the rules to be placed and kept in some conspicuous place at or near the mine where they may be conveniently read by the persons employed.

(2) The owner, agent, or manager shall supply gratis to any person employed in or about the mine, who shall make application

for same, a printed copy of the said abstract and Special Rules.

(3) Every copy of the Special Rules shall be kept distinct from any rules which depend only on the contract between the employer and the employed.

27. In the event of any non-compliance with the provisions of the next preceding section, the owner, agent and manager of the mine shall each be guilty of an offence against this Chapter.

28. Every person who pulls down, injures, defaces, or removes any notice, proposed Special Rules, abstract or special rules placed or kept in pursuance of the provisions of this Chapter or any notice posted up in pursuance of the Special Rules, shall be guilty of an offence against this Chapter.

29. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make such general rules as may be deemed necessary for the proper sanitation of mines, and of the area comprised in the operation thereof, and for the storing and transport of explosives into, to and from mines, which general rules, when published in the Royal Gazette, shall have the force and effect

30. On or before the 31st day of January in every year, the owner, agent or manager of every mine shall send to the Minister of Agriculture and Mines a correct return specifying the particulars contained in the Schedule B hereto, in respect of the year ending on the preceding 31st day of December; provided that so much of the said returns as relates to the quantity of mineral wrought or gotten shall not be published without the consent of such owner, agent, or manager.

31. In every mine there shall be a room in which shall be kept such a proper supply of lint, bandages, tourniquets and other surgical accessories as the size of the mine demands, and also a sufficient number of ambulance stretchers. In a mine in which a greater number of men than two hundred are employed the ambulance shall be in charge of a person approved of by a duly qualified medical practitioner.

32. It shall be the duty of the owner, agent and manager of every mine in the case of an accident involving serious personal injury, to send for the nearest medical practitioner and to convey any person who has suffered any serious personal injury to his own home or to hospital, at the expense of such owner, agent or manager.

Nature and extent of injury; give physician's report, if any:

Was the injury due to any negligence or fault, and (if so) whose and what?

Steps taken for immediate relief

Has the injured person to your knowledge any accident or benefit insurance?

Is the accident likely to be serious?

Notice made out by

Position with employer

The persons named below either saw the accident or heard the injured person's statement of how it happened:

1. It shall be lawful for any person who shall make any discovery of minerals in this Colony, at the time of making application for a license for the same or without making any such application, to file in the office of the Minister of Agriculture and Mines a claim in writing, verified by affidavit, setting forth that he is the first and original discoverer of such mineral, what said mineral is, and as accurately as possible the situation of the deposit. The Minister of Agriculture and Mines, immediately upon the filing of such claim, shall give public notice in the Royal Gazette and one other newspaper setting forth briefly the facts contained in said claim and the name of the claimant, and calling upon all persons who may dispute such claimant's right as first or original discoverer to give notice to his Department of any objection thereto within sixty days thereafter. If at the expiration of the said period of sixty days no such objectons are received at the Department, the claimant shall be deemed to be the true first and original discoverer, and his name and the location of his discovery shall be registered in a book to be kept in the said Department called "The Register of Mineral Discoveries." If any such objections are received at the said Department, then immediately upon the expiration of the said period of sixty days, the Minister shall summon all parties making such objections, and the claimant, by notice in writing, to appear before him, and after hearing such of the said parties as shall appear in obedience to said summons, either separately or together, shall report thereon to the Governor in Council, who shall determine who is the true first or original discoverer and cause his name and the location of the discovery to be registered in manner aforesaid. The decision of the Governor in Council shall be final.

2. If at any time thereafter any such location shall be developed or operated, the person registered as the true first or original discoverer thereof shall be entitled to receive and shall receive from the funds of the Colony the sum of one thousand dollars; provided that no such location shall be held to be developed or operated unless at least fifty men shall