ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO OCTAVO ET QUINQUA- VICTORIÆ REGINE. A.D. 1895. No. 626. An Act to amend the "Mining on Private Property BE [Assented to, December 20th, 1895.] E it Enacted by the Governor of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said province, in this present Parlia ment assembled, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the "Mining on Private Property Short title and incorAct Amendment Act, 1895," and shall be incorporated with the poration. "Mining on Private Property Act, 1888," hereinafter called the said Act. words "metal" and 2. The word "metal" in the said Act shall, in addition to gold, Interpretation of the mean and include all other metals and minerals, and the word "owner." "owner" shall include the owner of the metals in any land as well as the owner of the fee-simple thereof, and all words relating to the ownership of any private land shall extend also to the ownership of any metals therein. 3. The whole of sections 7 and 29, and the words "and unless Repeal. in the event of the owner being dissatisfied with such certificate the same shall be confirmed by a mining expert appointed as hereinafter mentioned" in sub-division 11. of section 6, and the last four lines of section 22 of the said Act, are hereby repealed. 24 of Act 448 of 4. In section 24 of the said Act the following words shall be Amendment of section inserted to follow after the word "land" in the third line of the said 1888. section, "at a price to be fixed in the manner provided by the Arbitration Act of 1891." 5. Section Repeal of section 19 of Act 448 of 1888. Act to extend within two hundred yards of wells, &c., and two hundred yards of dwelling-house. Reduction of time when land may be provisionally resumed, or declared an alluvial goldfield, from six months to one month. Reduction of fee for special licence. Mining on Private Property Act Amendment Act.-1895. 5. Section 19 of the said Act is hereby repealed. 6. The provisions of the said Act shall extend to lands not within two hundred yards of any well, artificial reservoir, dam, or building (not being a dwelling-house), and not within two hundred yards of any dwelling-house or manufactory. 7. The times prescribed by the said Act in the sections and subdivisions hereunder referred to shall be altered, as follows: 1. In sub-division II. of section 6 the six calendar months' previous notice to be given by the Commissioner to the owner, and also to the occupier of the land of the certificate of the Inspector, and of the intention to proceed pursuant to Part I. of the said Act, is reduced to two calendar months' previous notice: II. In sub-division 111. of section 6 the six calendar months from the giving of the above-mentioned notice after the expiration of which it may be shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioner that the land is being continuously and bona fide mined with the number of men and in the manner which would be necessary if the said land were held under a mining lease from the Crown, is reduced to two calendar months: III. In section 17 the six calendar months' notice to the owner and occupier of the land after the giving of which the Governor may, by Proclamation to be published in the Government Gazette, declare that any private land shall be an alluvial goldfield is reduced to two calendar months' notice: IV. Proviso 1. of the sub-section to section 17 of the said Act is amended by striking out all the words from the beginning down to and including " but " in the fifth line of the said proviso: v. Proviso II. of the said section 17 is amended by striking out the words "for one year from the date thereof" in the third and fourth lines of the said proviso, and inserting, in lieu thereof, "until the field shall cease to be a goldfield, or is resumed": VI. Proviso II. of section 17 is amended by striking out all the words after the word "Pound" in the said proviso. 8. The fee for a special licence shall be reduced to Ten Shillings, but the whole amount received for special licences in respect of any land declared an alluvial goldfield shall, less a commission of Two Pounds Ten Shillings per centum thereon to be retained by the Commissioner, be paid to the person entitled to the same in the same manner as the rent of claims under section 18 of the said Act. 9. Every Mining on Private Property Act Amendment Act.—1895. 9. Every miner, when pegging out an alluvial claim, shall be Claims to be recompelled to register his claim, within a time to be fixed by regula- gistered. tion thereafter, with the Warden, and to keep posted on a peg fixed on the said claim the number thereof, and shall give to the Warden in writing his name and usual place of abode. Every miner failing to comply with this section shall render his claim liable to forfeiture. In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to Adelaide: By authority, C. E. BRISTOW, Government Printer, North-terrace, ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO OCTAVO ET QUINQUA- VICTORIA REGINE. A.D. 1895. No. 627. An Act to amend the Laws relating to Village Settlements, "The Exchange of Lands and Reduction of Rents Act, 1894," and the Act 584 of 1893. [Assented to, December 20th, 1895.] E it enacted by the Governor of the Province of South Aus Btralia, advice and consent of the Legislative and House of Assembly of the said Province, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Village Settlements and Short title. Reduction of Rents Amendment Act, 1895." Hundred Pounds. 2. The sum of not exceeding Fifty Pounds in the aggregate for Increase of amount every villager which the Commissioner of Crown Lands (hereinafter advanced to Village called the Commissioner) is authorised by section 60 of "The Crown Associations to One Lands Amendment Act, 1893," to advance to any one Village Association is hereby increased to One Hundred Pounds: Provided that the total advances which may be made by the Commissioner to Total amount of the associations heretofore registered shall not exceed Fifty Thousand Pounds. advances. 3. No advances shall be made to any association until its village Advances to be made shall have been proclaimed in the manner provided by sections 47 after proclamation. and 48 of "The Crown Lands Amendment Act, 1893." after proclamation. 4. The Commissioner shall, within two months after the pub- Lease to be issued lication of the proclamation constituting a village, issue to every association whose village shall be so proclaimed a lease in terms of section 51 of the said Act. 5. Every |