from vexatious actions for anything done by them in the execution of their office or duty; and Part IV. of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1882, shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to Wardens as fully as to Justices.

EXTRACT FROM "THE MINING ACT AMENDMENT
АСТ, 1904.”

12. (1) With the consent in writing of the Minister, the Warden within a mining district, or the Commissioner of Crown lands outside a mining district, may grant to any person a warrant (hereinafter referred to as a prospecting warrant ") authorising the holder to prospect for any one specified mineral over any Crown lands specified in the warrant, not exceeding an area of ten thousand acres.

(2) Every application for a prospecting warrant shall be accompanied by a deposit of fifty pounds for the first one thousand acres applied for, with an addition of twenty-five pounds for every one thousand acres or part thereof applied for in excess of one thousand acres.

13. A prospecting warrant shall, unless previously cancelled under section fifteen hereof, continue in force for a period of five years from the date on which it was granted.

14. The holder of any such warrant shall, while it continues in force, have the exclusive right to prospect for the mineral specified in the warrant on the land to which the warrant refers, and may enter upon such land for that purpose.

15. Every prospecting warrant shall be held under such conditions as to employment of labour and development of the mine as may from time to time be prescribed by Regulations, and may at any time be cancelled for the non-observance on the part of the holder of any such conditions.

16. (1) At any time while a prospecting warrant is in force the holder shall, on complying with the provisions of this Act, have the right to a lease of such part of the land to which the warrant relates not exceeding one thousand acres, and in one continuous block, as he may select.

(2) Every application for a lease shall be accompanied by a deposit of one pound for every acre of land applied for, not exceeding in the whole a deposit of one thousand pounds.

(3) The lease shall be for a term not exceeding sixty-three years, and shall be subject to the payment of such rent and to the observance of such conditions as may from time to time be prescribed by Regulations. 17. The Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, make Regulations

(a) Prescribing the rent and royalty payable, and the labour and other conditions under which any prospecting warrant or lease shall be granted;

(b) Providing for the refund from time to time of sums (not exceeding in the whole the amount deposited, whether on application for the warrant or the lease) in proportion to the amount spent in complying with any such labour or other conditions; and

(c) Prescribing the terms and conditions on which licences or warrants may be issued under section eighteen hereof, and the amount that shall be expended each year in prospecting under any such licence or

warrant.

18. (1) Subsection nine of section ninety of the principal Act shall not apply to a lease granted under this Act in so far that in the event of the land in respect of which such lease is granted, or any part thereof, being proved to be auriferous or to contain any mineral other than that specified in the lease, the lease shall not on that account be cancelled.

(2) The Warden may from time to time, if it appears to him that the working of the land comprised in such lease for the purpose specified in the lease is not hereby prejudiced, grant licences or warrants for prospecting for gold or other metal or mineral, or any other mining privilege, over any part of the land comprised in such lease:

Provided that, if at any time it appears to the Warden that the exercise of any such mining privilege is prejudicial to the working of the land by the lessee, the Warden may forthwith cancel such mining privilege, and the holder thereof shall have no right to compensation in respect of such cancellation either against the Crown or the lessee:

Provided further that the Warden may, if he thinks fit, grant to the holder of such mining privilege a fresh mining privilege over such part of the land comprised in the lease as will not be prejudicial to the working of the land by the lessee:

(3) Nothing in this section shall authorise the inclusion in any such lease of any area in respect of which any mining privilege has been heretofore granted, and is now in force.

19. Nothing in the principal Act or in this Act shall prevent the holder of a prospecting warrant or of a lease from applying for and obtaining any mining privilege for gold or any other metal or mineral over any part of the land specified in the warrant or lease, and such application shall have priority as if such holder were the discoverer within the meaning of the second schedule to the principal Act.

ADDRESSES AT WHICH FURTHER PARTICULARS REGARDING THE MINING LAWS OF THE VARIOUS PARTS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE MAY BE OBTAINED.

The British Islands.-Copies of the Mines Regulation Acts and other documents can be bought of Messrs Eyre & Spottiswoode, East Harding Street, London, E.C.

British India.-Copies of the legislation of the Indian Government may be inspected at the library of the India Office, Whitehall, London, S.W., and when spare copies are on hand, these may be obtained on application to the Under-Secretary of State for India, at the same address.

Ceylon and Crown Colonies generally. The legislative Acts of these may be inspected at the library of the Colonial Office, Whitehall, London, S.W. Copies cannot readily be obtained in England.

Burma. As in the case of British India.

The Malay Peninsula.—As Crown Colonies generally.

British Borneo. As Crown Colonies generally; also on application to the British North Borneo Company, 15 Leadenhall Street, London, E.C. Egypt.-On application to the Under-Secretary of State, The Ministry of Finance, Cairo, Egypt.

The Sudan.-On application to the Legal Secretary to the Government of the Sudan, Khartum, Sudan.

Cyprus.-As Crown Colonies generally.

The Dominion of Canada.-Copies of Legislative Acts, with numerous other documents, may be inspected and much information obtained at the office of the High Commissioner for the Dominion, 19 Victoria Street, London, S.W.

British Guiana.-As Crown Colonies generally.

The Gold Coast Colony and Ashanti.-As Crown Colonies generally. The Cape of Good Hope Colony.-At the office of the Agent-General, 100 Victoria Street, London, S.W.

Natal.-At the office of the Agent-General, 26 Victoria Street, London,

S.W.

The Orange River Colony.-As Crown Colonies generally; see also The Mineral Laws of the Orange River Colony, by W. H. Somerset Bell, published by the African Book Company, Limited, Grahamstown, Cape Colony, South Africa.

The Transvaal.--As Crown Colonies generally; also at the office of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines, Salisbury House, London Wall, E.C,

Rhodesia.-As Crown Colonies generally; also at the offices of the British South Africa Company, London Wall Buildings, London, E.C. The Commonwealth of Australia.-Copies of Legislative Acts and other information may be obtained at the offices of the Agents-General of the several federated Colonies:

New South Wales-9 Victoria Street, London, S.W.
Victoria-142 Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.
Queensland-1 Victoria Street, London, S.W.

South Australia-31 Bishopsgate Street Within, London, E.C.
Tasmania-5 Victoria Street, London, S.W.

Western Australia-15 Victoria Street, London, S.W.

New Zealand.—At the office of the Agent-General, 13 Victoria Street, London, S. W. For more technically legal information on all the above subjects, the reader is referred to a Guide to the Mining Laws of the World, by Mr Oswald Walmesley, barrister-at-law, published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, East Harding Street, London, E.C.