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OF THE
HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR SOUTH AFRICA.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE HIGH COMMISSIONER.
Vou. C.] PRETORIA, ERIDAY, 23RD DECEMBER, 1927. ' [No. 1375
+ No. 45 of 1927.] PROCLAMATION
By His Excrnpency tag Hien Commissioner.
Whereas it is expedient to provide for the establishment of a township on certain land proclaimed to be Crown land by Proclamation No. 21 of 1916 and known as Lot No. 136 (1), Ubombo District, Swaziland, and to make provision for the disposal of lots within the said township and for other matters in connection therewith ;
Now therefore under and by virtue of the powers authorities and jurisdiction conferred upon and committed to me by His Majesty under the Swaziland Order in Council 1903 as amended by the Swaziland Order in Council 1906 and the Swaziland Order in pouneil 1909, I do hereby declare proclaim and make known as ollows : —
1. That portion of the Crown land known as Portion of Portion No. 1 of Crown Land Lot No. 186 District Ubombo in extent 203 morgen and 265 square roods more fully described on General Pian &.G. No. 15/27 framed by the Surveyor-General, at Pretoria, in July, 1927, shall be and is hereby proclaimed a township under the name of Stegi, and the above referred to General Plan, dupli- cate originals whereof. shall be deposited in the offices of thé Surveyor-General and Registrar of. Deeas respectively in Pretoria, shall, in respect of the figure thereon described by the names New B, 2 Line, 15 B, Way, 1 Ruh, Rot, GT, Red, 4 Arm, 3 Arm, represent the General Plan of the Township of Stegi.
2. The lots and streets in the township shall be as shown on the General Plan but the Resident Commissioner may, with the approval of the High Commissioner at any future date cause further lots, streets, squares and reserves to be surveyed within the proclaimed limits of the township and to be added to the General Plan thereof by the Surveyor-General. ~
3. The lots enumerated in Schedule A to this Proclamation which have been alienated under the Swaziland Crown Lands Dis- posal Proclamation 1911 and registered as farms shall be trans- ferred from the Farm Register to a Register of Stegi Township by the Registrar of Deeds who shall make consequential amend- ments in the Deeds under which the said properties are held.
The lots enumerated in Schedule B to this Proclamation which have been alienated under the Swaziland Crown Lands Disposal Proclamation 1911 but not yet registered shall when registered be dealt with in like manner by the Registrar of Deeds.
4. The Surveyor-General shall make consequential amendments on the existing diagrams of the lots enumerated in the Schedules to this Proclamation. : . .
5. The High Commissioner may subject to the reservation of the rights to minerals, mineral products and precious stones which ‘are hereby reserved to the Crown dispose of lots within the said township on such terms and conditions as he may think fit. |
6. (a) If payment of any annual quitrent shall be a condition of the grant of any lot within the said township, such quitrent shall be payable in advance on the first day of January in every year provided that a proportionate part of such quitrent shall be payable on the date when the grant is issued in respect of the un- expired portion of the year then current. Where the annual quitrent payable in respect of the lot remains unpaid for more than two years after the same becomes due and payable the Resident Commissioner may give notice in the Gazette that. unless all sums due for quitrent in respect of such lot together with the cost of such notice are paid within three months from the date of publica- tion thereof such lot will be sold by public auction. Such notice shall also be served personally on the registered owner of the lot or posted to him by registered letter addressed to him at his last known address, :
If on the expiration of such period of three months all sums due for quitrent in respect of such lot and for the cost of the notice have not been paid the lot may be sold by public auction
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without any further notice to the owner thereof, but a tender of all sums due as aforesaid at any time before such sale shall be accepted if all costs incurred up to the date of the tender shall also be paid. All sums due as aforesaid and the costs of sale shall be paid out of the proceeds of the sale and the balance, if any, shall be paid to the registered owner of the lot.
(b) Transfer of any lot so sold may be passed upon the authority of a power of attorney signed by the Resident Commis- sioner without production to the Registrar of Deeds of the title- deed of the registered owner thereof.
7. (1) No lot in the said township shall be sub-divided withou the permission in writing of the Resident Commissioner. .
(2) Im the case of the sub-division of any lot within the said township which is subject to the payment of an annual quitrent each of the sub-divisions of such lot shall be subject to the payment of an annual quitrent in accordance with the provisions of this Proclamation of such amount as may be fixed by the Resident Commissioner provided that the quitrent payable in respect of any such sub-division shall not exceed the quitrent originally payable in respect of the whole lot.
8. The High Commissioner may from time to time by notice in the Gazette make alter avid revoke regulations prescribing the conditions on which lots in Stegi. Township may be disposed of and the form of grant to be-issued in respect of such lots and generally for the better carrying out of the objects and purposes of this Proclamation.
9. This Proclamation may be cited for all purposes as the Stegi Township Proclamation 1927 and shall have force and take effect from the date of its publication in the Gazette.
Gop Save rHe Kine.
Given under my Hand and Seal at Capetown this Sixth day of December One thousand Nine hundred and Twenty-seven,
ATHLONE, . High Commissioner.
By Command of His Excellency the High Commissioner.
B, E. H. CLIFFORD, Imperial Secretary.
SCHEDULE A.
Lots Soip aND REGISTERED UNDER THE SWAZILAND Crown LANDS Disposan Proctamation, 1911. .
Lot Registered as Present Registered Deed under which No, Farm No. Owner. Property is Held.
1 338 Ge J. Way.ccccccc ccc csceeeeees Transfer No, 46/1922. 6 385 Wesleyan Methodist Missionary ,
> Trust Association.............. Grant No. 20/1924. 7 415 E. L. Mordaunt.............6... Grant No. 3/1925. 8 398 GoD. Way. eee ccc cece ee nees Grant No. 33/1924. 9 383 J. G. Young and R. J. Venables,
trading as Young & Venables... Grant No. 14/1924. 10 414 G. G. Bennett...... 0... eee eee Grant No. 2/1925. ll 433 J. Linaker..... 0... cece eee Grant No. 31/1925, 12° 484 J. H. Howe..:..cc. ccc eee eee Grant No. 8/1927. 15 434 J. M. Roberts................... Grant No. 35/1925. 21 472 G. G. Bennett... 0.2.0... eee eeu Grant No. 25/1926. 22 489 J. G. Young and R. J. Venables,
trading as Young & Venables.. Grant No. 12/1927. 23 399 G. J. Way. eee eee e eee eens Grant No. 34/1924. 24 498 J. G. de Kock.......... cee ae Grant No. 31/1927. 28 499 C. P. 8. Badenhorst............- Grant No. 32/1927. 30 501 H. G. Mordaunt............... .. Grant No. 34/1927, 31 500 H. G. Mordaunt...............4. Grant No. 33/1927. 38 483 Trust Board of the Diocese of Zulu-
: land. ...ccsescoererseusees seea Grant No. 7/1927.
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SCHEDULE B.
Lovs Soup UNDER THE SwaziLAND Crown Lanps Disposan ProcuamMation, 1911, Bur Not yer REGISTERED.
Lot No. Purchaser. l6...cc ccc ee cece J. M. Roberts. VD. ccccceeceeeee H. W. Duyts. Qc eee rece J. Linaker. QWBivececeneececs J. F. van Staden. 29D. ce cece ceeee T. I. Potgieter. Bocce eee ences J. J. Potgieter. BB. cc cceeeceeees BF. OG. M., A. J. J., and A. J. H. Hintze.
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Noe 47, 1927.]
PROCLAMATION
By His Excenrency tHe Hien ComMMIssionen.
Whereas it is expedient to provide by law for the throwing open of areas of land in Swaziland (exclusive of Native Areas as hereinafter defined) held under mineral concessions to prospecting and mining by persons other than the concessionaires subject to the consent of the concessionaires being first obtained ;
And whereas it is expedient to provide that where a con- cessionaire withholds such consent in respect of any land held under a mineral concession which is reasonably capable of exploita- tion by prospecting or mining and which is not being adequately exploited by the concessionaire such land shall be subject to an undeveloped minerals tax subject to such conditions as are here- inafter contained ;
And whereas it is expedient to enable the High Commissioner to accept the surrender of mineral concessions where the con- cessionaires desire to surrender the same,
And whereas it is expedient to make other provisions incidental to, or connected with the matters above mentioned ;
Now therefore under and by virtue of the powers, authorities and jurisdiction conferred upon and committed to me by His Majesty under the Swaziland Order in Council 1908, as amended by the Swaziland Order in Council 1906 and the Swaziland Order in Council 1909 I do hereby declare, proclaim and make known as
. follows :-—
1. In this Proclamation unless the context otherwise requires—
* arbitration ?’? shall mean arbitration in accordance with the Arbitration Ordinance 1904 of the Transvaal as in force in Swaziland and any amendment thereof;
“base metals’ shall mean quicksilver, iron, lead, copper, tin, zine, cobalt, nickel, arsenic, manganese, antimony, hismauth, as well as the ores of such metals and sulphur, graphite, or any other mineral substance, not specially excluded from this definition, for the exploitation of which no special provision is made by law, but shall not include coal, tor- banite, oil-shales, limestone, sand or clay;
“ claim ’’ shall mean a portion of any mineral concession area lawfully pegged as a claim under this Proclamation, and on which the right to prospect and dig for precious or base metals has been lawfully obtained hereunder ;
“ diagram ’’ shall mean a diagram prepared by a person law- fully admitted to practise as a land surveyor;
‘dig ? shall mean intentionally to win precious or base metals (as the case may be) from the earth and shali include all excavating necessary for the purpose whether by under- ground working open cutting boring or otherwise;
“ digger’s licence’ shall mean a digger’s licence issued under this Proclamation ;
. ** discoverer ’? shall mean a person who holds a certificate issued under section ten of this Proclamation;
“imprisonment”? shall mean imprisonment either with or without hard labour ; . .
‘improvement ’’ shall mean any cultivated soil, road, dam, furrow, plantations, crops, buildings, drainage, fencing, clearing, or other work or structure by which the value of land has been increased ;
“ mine ” when used as verb shall have the same meaning as ig”;
“ mineral concession ”’? shall mean a concession made by or on behalf of the King or Paramount Chief of Swaziland and confirmed either by the late Chief Court of Swaziland or by the High Commissioner under Proclamation No. 63 of 1908, giving a right to precious or base metals precicus stones minerals or mineral products on any piece of land, and where the area subject to any such concession has been sub-divided shall include the title to any sub-division there- of, but shall not include any such concession which is vested in the High Commissioner or other authority representing the Crown;
‘mineral concessionaire’? shall mean any person in whose name is registered in the Deeds Office of Swaziland any mineral concession; it shall further include the legal repre- sentative of any such person who has died become insolvent is a minor or is of unsound mind or is otherwise under disability; provided that a person shall not be deemed to be a mineral concessionaire by reason only of the fact that he is the holder of a concessionaire’s reserve or of any rights in respect of such reserve;
‘* Native area’’ shall mean any area or portion thereof set aside under the provisions of section four of the Swaziland Concessions Partition Proclamation 1907 as amended for the sole and exclusive use and occupation of Natives of Swazi- land and described in the Schedule to the Swaziland Native Areas Proclamation 1917;
*‘ mining title ”’ shall mean a prospecting or digger’s licence or any other right to mine granted under this Proclamation or any amendment thereof ;
pegs on its sides and angular points.
“precious metals’? shall mean (a) gold and silver and their ores and gold or silver found in combination with a base metal where such gold and silver cannot be worked apart from such base metal and the value of the gold or silver exceeds the cost of producing both such precious and base metals; (b) any other metal (uot being a base metal) declared by the High Commissioner by notice in the Gazette to be a precious metal for the purposes of this Proclamation and the regulations ;
“ proclaimed land ” shall mean land proclaimed a public dig- ging under this Proclamation provided it has not been law- fully deproclaimed ;
‘« prospecting ’’ shall include all work which is necessary for or incidental to the search for precious or base metals ;
“ prospecting licence ” shall mean a prospecting licence issued under this Proclamation ; ,
‘‘ prospector ”? shall mean the person or persons by whom or on whose behalf a prospecting permit is held under this Proclamation ; .
‘‘ reoulation’ shall mean a regulation made by the High Commissioner under the powers of this Proclamation.
2. The supervision and control of prospecting and mining on all mineral concession areas or portions thereof thrown open tu
prospecting or proclaimed under this Proclamation shall be vested
in the Resident Commissioner who shall exercise all rights powers
and jurisdiction conferred upon him by this Proclamation or any ~
law amending the same or any law or regulation from time to time in force governing prospecting or mining. .
3. The High Commissioner may from time to time appoint puch
other officers as he may consider necessary to assist the Resident Commissioner in carrying out the provisions of this Proclamation and any regulations made hereunder.
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s Prospecting. :
4. (1) 16 shall be lawful for the Resident Commissioner by
notice in the Gazette to declare any mineral concession area or
portion thereof open for prospecting provided that the written
consent of the mineral concessionaire to such declaration has first
been obtained in the form prescribed by regulation; And provided always that any portion of a mineral concession area on which mining ‘operations have already been carried on shall not be included in any area thrown open for prospecting under this
section, unless the Resident Commissioner is satisfied that it is in
circumstances reasonable to require that opportunities shall be given for prospecting on such portion. , . .
@) Any such notice shall specify the land to which it applies
by reference to the mineral concession area of which such land
forms part and such land shall for the purpose of the notice be
described as a “‘ section’ which shall be identified by letters or
numbers or by a combination of letters and numbers, or may be
divided into one or more sections which shall be so identified. (8) No section shall contain land forming part of more than
one mineral concession area except where the same area of land
is subject to more than one mineral concession, or where the rame
concessionaire holds similar rights under different concesions in respect of adjoining areas. ;
(4) It shall not be necessary to survey the boundaries of sections
before the same are thrown open for prospecting under tis
section, but such boundaries may. for the purpose of any notice hereunder be indicated by reference to the boundaries of other concessions or to natural features or otherwise, and where any doubt arises as to whether or not a piece of land is included in a particular section the question shall be referred to the Resident Commissioner whose decision shall be final. .
(5) Sections of land thrown open for prospecting by a notice issued hereunder shali only be open to prospecting for such precious or base metals as may be specified in such notice, and the Resident Commissioner may in such or any subsequent notice attach conditions subject to which such prospecting shall be carried on. -
(6) The Resident Commissioner may at any time by like notice withdraw from prospecting any land declared open for prospect- ing under this section without prejudice to any rights acquired under any prospecting permit while the land was so open.
(7) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any mineral concession area which is included within a native area or to any part of any such concession area which is so included.
5. Where any land has been declared open to prospecting under this chapter prospecting for such metals as may be mentioned in the notice may be carried on thereon under the authority of a pros- pecting permit, and no such prospecting shall be carried on there- on without such authority.
6. (1) Subject to the provisions of this chapter a prospecting permit shall upon application be issued by the Resident Commis- sioner or other person authorized thereto by him to any white person of the age of sixteen years or upwards either on his own behalf or on behaif of another such person or persons or of an incorporated company. Every prospecting permit shall be in the form prescribed by regulation.
(2) A prospecting permit shall be available for prospecting for precious or base metals on land thrown open for such prospecting subject to the provisions of this Proclamation. It shall be in force for twelve months from the date of its issue, and a fee of five shillings shall be payable therefor. _ (8) A prospector shall, for the purpose of authorized prospect- ing, be entitled to graze, free of cost, four draught animals, and, with the written consent of the Resident Commissioner or other person authorized thereto by him, such additional number of draught animals up to sixteen as may appear necessary; the prospector shall further have the right to use such water (nos being water artificially conserved), and to take so much dead wood as the Resident Commissioner or such other person may authorize in writing.
7. (1) On land on which prospecting is permitted under this chapter, a prospector may peg an area (called a prospecting area) as far as possible rectangular in shape and not exceeding two thousand feet in length and two thousand feet in breadth. Such area shall be pegged by placing, in accordance with the regulation,
A prospector who has
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fulfilled the conditions of this section ‘shall have the exclusive wight of prospecting in such area so long as he prospects to the satisfaction of the -Resident Commissioner and maintains his pegs - according to regulation. In default. of compliance by the pros- pector with the provisions of this section, the Resident. Commis- sioner may declare forfeited the rights acquired thereunder, and such area, and any. portion thereof, shall not. be open for pegging by the same prospector within a period of twelve months from the date of. such forfeiture,
(2) The prospector may at any time abandon the area, and shail report the pegging or the abandonment to the Resident Commissioner within one month, and if he abandon the area or forfeit the rights aforesaid, or whenever his prospecting permit expires, he shall remove the pegs. If the prospector fails to comply with any provision of this sub-section he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds. :
- (8) No prospector shall be entitled under this section to peg or hold more than one prospecting area at one and the same time unless he satisfies the Resident Commissioner that be intends to prospect for liquid oil by deep boring, in which case he may be granted special permission to hold such number of prospecting areas as the Resident Commissioner may determine, within such area and for such period as the Resident Commissioner may think it. .
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CHAPTER II.
: Discovery. 8. (1) Tt shall be the duty of every prospector who has dis-
covered precious or base metals on land thrown open for prospect- ing under this Proclamation, to give notice in writing of such discovery to the Resident. Commissioner within thirty days: there- after. With such notice there shall be transmitted a declaration containing particulars of the time when and the place where such discovery was made! and any further particulars prescribed hy regulation. :
(2) If the prospector fails to comply with any provision of this section, or make a declaration falsé in any material particular knowing the same to! be false, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, and in default of payment to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months; . upon. conviction of a prospector for such false declaration, the Resident Commissioner may declare forfeited any rights granted in consequence of it. .
9. The Resident Commissioner may cause investigation to be made concerning the, nature, extent, and results of prospecting, with a view to ascertaining if any discovery of precious or base metals, whether notified or not, kas been made.
10. (1) When a discovery shall have been notified in accor- dance with section eight, in respect of any place on land thrown open for prospecting under this Proclamation, and the Resident Commissioner is satisfied that it is, or, having regard to all the circumstances, should :be regarded as a genuine discovery and that there are reasonable grounds for believing that precious or base metals exist in payable quantities at such place, the Resident Commissioner shall give to the prospector a notice entitling him within a period specified thereby (not being less than thirty days) to peg at such place as follows :—
(a) in the case of a discovery of precious metals (not being an alluvial deposit) not less than ten and not more than fifty claims ;
(b) in the case of! a discovery of base metals (not being an alluvial deposit) not- less than ten and not more than oue hundred claims;
(c) in the case of alluvial deposits of precious or base metals not less than one and not more than five claims.
Provided that, if the discovery was made. by prospecting or boring to a greater depth than one thousand feet, the Resident Commissioner shall increase the size of the area which may be pegged to such an extent as the High Commissioner may in each case approve, but not exceeding in any case fifty claims for every additional thousand feet of depth.
(2) If the inspector'does not comply with the terms of the said notice within the period specified thereby, he shall be deemed to have abandoned his rights under this section.
(3) Such area shall,‘as far as possible, be rectangular in shape, and where a definite reef exists shall in respect of the proportions of length to breadth along and across the reef be at the highest as two is to one. : 7,
(4) As soon as the: prospector shall have complied with the terms of the said notice, he shall be entitled to have issued to him a certificate in respect of the area pegged by him.
(5) Such. certificate ‘shall entitle the holder to the exclusive right of prospecting and mining on the said area for a period of three years from the ‘date of the said certificate, but if the prospecting and mining is not carried on to the satisfaction of ‘the Resident Commissioner, licence moneys calculated as provided in section seventeen of the Crown Mineral Areas (Swaziland) Proclamation 1912 shall thereupon be payable in respect of the area, and in any event shall become payable after the expiry of the said period of three years.
(6) As soon as the certificate is issued the provisions of the Crown Mineral Areas (Swaziland) Proclamation 1912 relating to claims, as incorporated’ in this Proclamation, shall apply to tho said area, and as soon as licence moneys become payable, the said area shall, for all the purposes of this Proclamation and the regulations, be deemed to be claims. :
(7) The terms of the notice mentioned in sub-section (1) shall be published in the Gazette and in a newspaper circulating in Swaziland and thereupon all prospecting, except by the discoverer, shall cease within such distance from the place where the discovery was made as the Resident Commissioner may determine.
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Right of Mineral Concessionaires in respect of Proclaimed Land. 11. (1) Where notice ‘has beeu given under section sixteen of
this Proclamation of intention to proclaim any mineral concession area or portion thereof as a public digging the mineral conces- sionaire shall, subject to: the discoverer’s rights (if any), have the ] right to select on the land to be proclaimed either one or two areas
called a concessionaire’s reserve which shall not in the aggregate exceed six hundred morgen or be more than one-fifth of the land to be proclaimed within the mineral concession area.
(2) The mineral concessionaire shall retain in respect of his reserve all rights conferred by his mineral concession.
(3) Where a definite reef exists, the proportion of the length of the reserve along the reef to its breadth across the reef shall be at the highest as two is to one, and it shall, as far as possible, be rectangular in shape. /
(4) The mineral concessionaire shall lodge at the office of the Resident Commissioner a diagram of the reserve so selected together with a certificate of the Registrar of Deeds thai he is the registered holder of the concession. ‘
(5) Tf the concessionaire shall not have complied with the provisions of sub-section (4) within a period of six months after notice of intention to proclaim, he shall be deemed to have abandoned his right to the reserve.
(6) Ground selected as a reserve under this section shall, upon proclamation, be deemed to be proclaimed land, but shall not be
_ dealt with under section nineteen save as is otherwisé expressly provided in this Proclamation.
12. (1) The holder of a concessionaire’s reserve where the land -is not subject to a subsequent mineral concession shall be entitled on making application to the Resident Commissioner as herein provided to obtain a lease under section nineteen of this Proclama- tion of the area included in the reserve or any portion thereof as from the date of the expiry of the mineral concession under the terms of which the reserve is held provided that before such lease can be claimed all rental or other moneys payable under such concession up to the date of expiry thereof shall have been duly paid, and all the terms and conditions of such concession shall have been fulfilled by the concessionaire.
(2) Such application shall be made in the form prescribed by regulation not later than three months before the expiry of the concession or at such later date as the Resident Commissioner may in special circumstances allow.
(8) Such lease shall be for such period not being legs than one year as the concessionaire may require, and shall be renewable from time to time at the will of the lessee, but shall contain such conditions as to cancellation for non-payment of rent or other breach of the conditions thereof as may be prescribed by regula- tion. -
(4) The ‘rental payable under such lease shall be payable in advance for each successive period of six months, and shall be the equivalent of the amount of claim licence moneys which would be payable in respect of the area leased if the same were held as claims.
(5) Where upon the expiry or cancellation of the mineral con- cession under the terms of which a concessionaire’s reserve is held the land becomes subject to a subsequent mineral concession the owner of such subsequent mineral concession shall be entitled to take over the concessionaire’s reserve and shall be subject in respect thereof to the provisions of this Proclamation. Where there is no subsequent mineral concession or where the reserve is not so taken over any land included in such reserve which is not leased under the provisions of this section may be dealt with: ‘under section nineteen of this Proclamation.
18. (1) Upon Proclamation of any portion of a mineral con- cession area the mineral concessionaire shall cease to be entitled to exercise any rights conferred by his concession in respect of any portion of the land proclaimed other than the concessionaire’s reserve, and ‘so long as the proclamation of such land remains in foree all such rights shall be deemed to vest in the High Commis- sioner on behalf of His Majesty for the purposes of this Proclama- ion,
(2) It shall be lawful for the Resident Commissioner to permit subject to regulation the holders of any mining title in respect of ‘land proclaimed under this Proclamation to exercise any sutface or ancillary rights or any rights to water conferred by the mineral concession in respect of any land so proclaimed so far as may in his opinion be necessary for the purpose of enabling such holders effectively to exploit the land held by them under mining title.
(3) Notwithstanding anything in this section contained where a mineral concessionaire has prior to the seventeenth day of June 1921 granted to any person any right to mine or prospect for minerals within the area of his concession such rights shall not be effected by proclamation of the land to which such rights relate or by such land being declared open for prospecting under section four of this Proclamation.
14. (1) All moneys received by the Resident Commissioner for the issue or renewal of prospecting or digger’s licences or as rental under any lease of proclaimed land granted under section nmmeteen of this Proclamation, shall be dealt with as follows:—
(a) In the case of all such moneys as become payable in respect of any mineral concession area prior to the date at-which the mineral concession expires or is cancelled, the same shall—
(i) if the mineral concession is a prior-dated concession, be- paid by the Resident Commissioner to the mineral concessionaire ; ,
(ii) if the mineral concession is a later-dated concession, be divided between such mineral concessionaire and the proprietors of the surface rights in respect of such area in such proportions as may be agreed between them or as failing agreement may be determined by a board exercising jurisdiction under section four of the Swazi- land Surface Rights Proclamation, 1910; provided that any share of licence moneys or rental awarded here- under to a proprietor of surface rights by such board shall be deemed to be on account of the compensation to which such proprietor is entitled under the said section, and if payment of such compensation is other-. wise fully provided for the proprietor of surface rights shall not be entitled to any such share but the mineral concessionaire shall be entitled to receive the licence moneys and rentals without deduction. .'
(b) In the case of all such moneys as become payable in respect of any proclaimed portion of a mineral concession area after the date of the expiry or cancellation of the mineral concession, one-half thereof shall be paid by the Resident ‘Commissioner to the proprietor of the surface rights’ jn respect of such land, and the other half thereof: shall be paid into the public revenue of Swaziland, ——
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(2) Where there is more than one proprietor of surface rights
in respect of any proclamed land, the amount payable under this
section to the proprietor of surface rights shall be apportioned
between the different proprietors in such manner as may be agreed
between such proprietors or as, failing such agreement, may be
prescribed by regulation, or as the Resident Commissioner, acting
wader the directions of the High Commissioner, may determine.
(3) Payments required to be made under this section shall be
made annually, or at such shorter intervals as may be prescribed
by regulation. : ;
(4) For the purpose of this section the terms “¢ prior-dated ”’
and “‘later-dated’’ in relation to mineral concessions and the
terms ‘proprietor’ and ‘surface rights’? shall have the same
meaning as is given to those terms by section one of the Swazi- land Surface Rights Proclamation 1910.
15. (1) After the mineral concessionaire has lodged at the
office of the Resident Commissioner the diagram and certificate
required by sub-section (4) of section eleven the Resident Com-
missioner shall give written notice to the concessionaire requiring
him to construct on the concessionaire’s reserve selected by him
beacons and trenches in accordance with this section and with
regulation. If he does not comply with such notice within three
weeks after the date thereof, the Resident Commissioner may
cause the beacons and trenches to be constructed at the cost of
the concessionaire., (2) The beacons shall be constructed at the angular points of
the concessionaire’s reserve, and if required by the Resident Com-
missioner, line beacons shall be constructed at clearly visible dis- .
tances (not exceeding one thousand yards) along its sides;
whenever it is possible trenches shall he constructed so as to
indicate the direction of the boundaries at each beacon. ‘
(8) If the Resident Commissioner does not in the first instance
require the construction of line beacons he may if he thinks
necessary require the construction of such beacons at a later date,
and may give written notice accordingly to the mineral con-
cessionaire, and upon such notice being given, the provisions of
sub-sections (1) and (2) shall apply in respect of the construction
of such beacons. (4) The beacons and trenches shall be maintained in repair
to the satisfaction of the Resident ‘Commissioner by the person
for the time being entitled to the concessionaire’s reserve, and
if he shall make default in complying with a notice in writing
by ‘the Resident Commissioner, calling upon him’ to put the
trenches and beacons in repair within a specified time, the
Resident Commissioner may effect the necessary repairs at the
cost of such -person. .
Cuarter IV. .
Proclamation of Public Diggings and Provisions Relating Thereto.
16. (1) Whenever the High Commissioner is satisfied that there
are reasonable grounds for believing that precious or base metals
exist in payable quantities on any land which has been declared
open for prospecting under section four of this Proclamation, he
may proclaim such land a public digging for any precious or base
metals or for both precious or base metals after the discoverer’s
rights, if any, under this Proclamation have been ascertained
and secured, (2) The area of a digging included in one proclamation shall
not exceed three thousand morgen, and no.land shall be proclaimed
which is not necessary for the purpose of the digging.
(3) Notice of intention to proclaim any. land under this section
shall be published in four consecutive weeks in the Gazette and in
a newspaper circulating in Swaziland, and shali further be posted
outside the principal door of the office of the Resident Commis-
sioner for a period of one month.
(4) In the proclamation there shall be stated the date on which
it shall take effect (not being less than thirty days after the first
publication thereof), and_in respect of any portion of the public
digging which is to be declared open to pegging, the proclama-
tion ‘shall describe such portion and state the hour at which
pegging may be commenced thereon.
(5) The Resident Commissioner shall cause notice to be given
in the Gazette and in such other manner as he may think necessary
of the places at which and the date pon and after which licences
under section seven of the Crown’ Mineral Areas (Swaziland)
Proclamation 1912, as incorporated in this Proclamation, may be
obtained to peg claims on such portion.
17. After such proclamation, prospecting on the land
proclaimed, other than prospecting on the concessionaire’s reserve
by the concessionaire or some person authorized by him, or
prospecting by virtue of any such right as is mentioned in sub-
section (3) of section thirteen, shall only be allowed under a
mining title.
18. No land shall. be proclaimed a public digging until beacons
in accordance with regulations have been erected at the angular
points thereof as well as line beacons if deemed necessary by the
Resident Commissioner at clearly visible distances at the cost of
the public revenue, and a diagram of the land has_ been lodged
at the Office of the Resident Commissioner and the Deeds Office ;
nor, if a conecessionaire’s reserve has been selected, until the-
beacons and trenches mentioned in section fifteen have been con-
structed. If in the opinion of the Surveyor-General any existing
diagram having reference to the land to be proclaimed is not
sufficiently accurate, a new survey may be made by the Surveyor-
General of the ground in accordance with the existing beacons and
after due publication and passing of the new diagram the old
diagram shall be cancelled by him. :
19. Subject to the rights conferred on a discoverer by section
ten and on a mineral concessionaire by section eleven the Resident
Commissioner may deal with proclaimed land in either or both of
the following ways:—.
(a) He may declare the whole or any portion thereof open to
the public for the pegging of claims in accordance with the
provisions of the Crown Mineral Areas (Swaziland) Procla-
mation 1912, as applied by the next succeeding section ;
(b) he may lease to any person the exclusive right to mine any
precious or base metals for the digging of which the land
has been proclaimed on any portion of the digging not held
under mining title, subject to the provisions of this Procla-
mation: and the regulations.
20. (1) The following sections of the Crown Mineral Areas
(Swaziland) Proclamation 1912, that is to say, section seven,
section eight (with the omission of the words therein “‘ save as is
otherwise provided in section fourteen with respect to pegging
under a prospecting permit'’’), sections nine to thirteen inclusive,
sections fifteen to nineteen inclusive, section twenty [with the
omission in sub-section (2) thereof of the words ‘‘ or section
fourteen’’], sections twenty-one and twenty-two, section twenty-
five as amended by Proclamation No, 22 of 1914, and sections
twenty-sie and twenty-eight shall be deemed to be incorporated
mutatis mutandis in this Proclamation and shall apply accordingly
to any proclaimed land and to the pegging of claims thereon and
to claims so pegged and to prospecting permits and prospecting
and diggers’ licences issued under this Proclamation as if such
land were a Crown mineral area and such claims were pegged and
such prospecting permits and prospecting and diggers’ licences
were issued under that Proclamation, provided that the number of
claims which may be pegged by any one person on any portion of
a public digging declared open to pegging by any one notice issued
under this Proclamation shall not exceed fifty in the case of
precious metal claims or one hundred in the case of base metal
claims. . (2) The references in sections twenty-one and twenty-two of
the Crown Mineral Areas (Swaziland) Proclamation 1912 to
to section five of the said Proclamation shall in those sections as
incorporated in this Proclamation be read as references to section
nineteen of this Proclamation. (3) Section twenty-three of the Crown Mineral Areas (Swazi-
land) Proclamation 1912 shall apply to land thrown open for
prospecting under this Proclamation and to proclaimed land (other
than the concessionaire’s reserve) and to prospecting permits and
licences issued under this Proclamation. 21. The rights conferred by any mining title shall not include
the right of disposal over the surface of the ground held under
such tithe and the holder of any mining title shall not be entitled
to use the surface of the ground held thereunder otherwise than
for mining, save as may be permitted by the Resident Commis-
sioner under section thirteen of this Proclamation.
29. (1) No holder of a prospecting permit or of mining title
shall damage or disturb any improvement made by any proprietor
of surface rights or any person holding under such proprietor on
land in respect of which the prospecting permit or mining title
may be héld, without in the case of the holder of mining title,
the written permission of the Resident Commissioner, or some
person authorized by him to grant such a permission, which per-
mission may be granted subject to such conditions as to compensa-
tion as the Resident Commissioner may impose. (2) Any person contravening this section shall be liable to a fine
not exceeding fifty pounds and in default of payment to imprison-
ment for a period not exceeding three months.
(3) Where a holder of a prospecting permit or of mining title
is convieted of contravening this section, the court before which
he is convicted may on the application of the injured party and
in the presence of the convicted person, inquire summarily and
without pleading into the amount of damage caused by such
contravention, and may assess the amount of such damage,
and give judgment for the amount. assessed in favour
of the injured party and against the person convicted, and such
judgment shall be of the same force and effect, and be executable
in the same manner as if it had been given in a civil action duly
instituted before such court; provided that judgment shall not
be given under this section for a sum exceeding the civil juris-
diction of such court. (4) In any proceedings under this section the onus of proving
that any act complained of was done with the written permission
of the Resident Commissioner shall be upon the person charged.
(5) The werds “ proprietor”’ and ‘‘ surface rights’ as used in
‘this and the next succeeding section shall have the same meanings
as are given to those terms by section one of the Swaziland Surface.
Rights Proclamation, 1910.
28. (1) Any portion of a public digging which has been declared
open to pegging under this Proclamation may be deproclaimed by
the High Commissioner, if the extent of ground held under digger’s
Hicencé is at the date of the notice mentioned in sub-section (3)
less than one digger’s claim to every twenty morgen of such
portion, and, the Resident Commissioner is satisfied that neither
precious nor base metals are being found or are likely to be
found in payable quantities on such portion.
(2) Any portion of a public digging which has not been
declared open to pegging may be deproclaimed by the High
Commissioner whenever the Resident Commissioner is satisfied
that neither precious nor base metals are being found or are
likely to be found in payable quantities on such portion.
(3) Notice of intention to deproclaim any portion of a public
digging shall be ‘published in four consecutive weeks in the Gazette
and in a newspaper circulating in Swazijand.
(4) The deproclamation of any portion of a public digging shall
not affect any rights granted on such portion under this Pro-
clamation, and existing at the date of the notice of intention to
deproclaim; provided that the mineral concessionaire or a pro-
prietor of surface rights in respect of such land may with the
sanction of the Resident Commissioner expropriate any such first-
mentioned rights on payment of an amount, by way of compensa-
tion, to be fixed by mutual agreement, or in default of such
agreement, to be determined by arbitration...
Tf, on or after the date of deproclamation, payment of licence
moneys due in respect of such first-mentioned rights be three
months in arrear, such rights shall be cancelled by the Resident
Commissioner and thereupon the ground shall no longer be portion
of a public digging.
94, Save as expressly provided in this Proclamation the
existence of a public digging, established under this Proclamation,
and the rights held in respect thereof, other than the rights of
the mineral concessionaire, shall not be affected by the expiry
cancellation or surrender of the mineral concession within the
area of which the same has been established or the transfer thereof
to the Crown or to the holder of a later-dated concession and the
provisions of the Crown Mineral Areas (Swaziland) Proclamation
1912 shall not by reason of such expiry cancellation surrender or
transfer to the Crown apply to any such public diggings save in
so far as the same are incorporated in this Proclamation, but
this Proclamation shall continue to apply thereto.
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25. Nothing in this Proclamation shall authorize the High Commissioner, or the Resident Commissioner acting on his behalf to confer on the holder of any mining title in respect of any portion of any mineral concession area greater rights in respect thereof during the period ‘for which the mineral concession con- tinues than those conferred on the mineral concessionaire in respect of such area by the terms of his concession.
CHartEr V.
Undeveloped Mineral Tax. 26. Where a concessionaire on being invited by the Resident
Commissioner to give his consent to the throwing open for pro- specting of his mineral concession area or any portion thereof under section four of this Proclamation declines to give such consent, or fails to give such consent within three months after notice inviting such consent has been served upon him, such area or such portion shall be subject to a tax of five shillings per hundred morgen per annum (hereinafter referred to as the ‘‘ undeveloped minerals tax’’) unless either
(a) such area or such portion thereof has been adequately exploited during the preceding calendar year by the carry- ing on of prospecting or mining operations thereon; or
(b) there are conflicting rights which interfere with the ex- ploitation of such area or such portion thereof, and not- withstanding the provisions of existing legislation the adequate exploitation thereof is hereby prevented ;
Provided always that any concessionaire’s reserve and any portion of a mineral concession area which has in the past been exploited to such an extent that the further exploitation thereof cannot reasonably be required shall he excluded from the area in respect of which the tax is payable.
27. (1) The Resident Commissioner shall cause to be prepared annually not later than the thirty-first day of March in cach calendar year a provisional assessment list showing—
(a) those concessionaires who appear to him liable to payment of the undeveloped minerals tax in respect of the preceding calendar year;
(b) particulars of the areas in respect .of which such tax appears to him to be payable, and
(c) the amount of such tax payable by each such concessionaire.
Such list shall when completed he deposited at the office of the Government Secretary of Swaziland and shall be open to inspection at such office during office hours for a period of not less than thirty days.
(2) As soon as possible after the provisional assessment list has been completed and deposited as provided in the preceding sub-section notice that the list has been completed and deposited shall be published in the Gazette, and notice shall also be given by the Government Secretary to each concessionaire included in such list that he has been provisionally assessed for payment of such tax.
(8) The Government Secretary shall in such inotice of pro- visional assessment give notice to the concessionaire that any objection to the assessment made must be sent to him within twenty-one days after the date of such notice or within such further time as the Resident Commissioner may for good cause allow.
28. (1) Objections may be made against any provisional assess- ment on any one or more of the following grounds : —
(i) That the area in respect of which the assessment is made is exempted from payment of the tax under paragraph (a) of section twenty-six; or
(ii) that such area is so exempted under paragraph (6b) of section twenty-sia; or ,
(iii) that such area or any portion thereof should be excluded from assessment under the proviso to section twenty-six; or
(iv) that the amount of the tax payable in respect of such area has been wrongly calculated.
(2) Every objection to assessment shall be in writing and shall be in the form prescribed by regulation, and shall specify in detail the grounds upon which the objection is made and shall be. supported by affidavit.
29. (1) On receipt of a notice of objection to a provisional assessment the Resident Commissioner shall consider the objection, and may require the objecting party to furnish any further infor- mation which he requires in relation to such objection, and mav obtain such reports thereon from any officer of the Government of Swaziland and any qualified mining engineer as he shall think necessary or advisable.
(2) After consideration of the objection, and of the informa- tion and reports furnished to him in connection therewith the Resident Commissioner may set aside or reduce the assessment or may confirm the same, and shall send to the concessionaire notice of such setting aside or reduction or confirmation, and shall cause such setting aside, reduction or confirmation to he recorded and any necessary alteration to be made accordingly in the provisional assessment list, and after the period allowed for sending notices of objection has expired and all objections have been duly dealt with by the Resident Commissioner or withdrawn, and all necessary alterations have been made in the provisional assessment list in accordance with his decisions, the Resident Commissioner shall certify such list and subject to the right of appeal hereinafter provided the same shall become final and con- clusive.
30. (1) The burden of, proof that any mineral concession area ‘or portion thereof included in a provisional assessment is not an area in respect of which the undeveloped minerals tax is payable shall be on the concessionaire.
(2) Where a portion only of a mineral concession area is in- cluded in any provisional assessment the Resident Commissioner or other authority shall in considering the question whether such portion has been adequately exploited in any calendar year have regard to any prospecting or mining operations carried on during such calendar year upon adjoining portions of such area which may affect the exploitation of such first-mentioned portion.
(3) Where a concessionaire is the holder of mineral concessions conferring similar rights in respect of two or more adjoining areas he shall be entitled to claim that such areas shall for the purpose of deciding any questions as to the adequate exploitation thereof be regarded as forming a single concession area.
31. (1) Any concessionaire who is dissatisfied with the decision of the Resident Commissioner on any objection made to a pro- visional assessment may appeal therefrom to the High Commis- sioner,
(2) Unless a concessionaire gives notice of such appeal wthin the period prescribed by sub-section (8) his objection shall be deemed to be determined.
(3) Notice of such appeal shall be in writing and shall be lodged with the Resident Commissioner within twenty-one days after the date of the notice mentioned in sub-section (2) of section twenty-nine or within such further time as the Resident Com- missioner may for good cause allow.
(4) At any such appeal the concessionaire shall be limited to the grounds stated in his notice of objection.
32. (1) The High Commissioner may appoint an Appeal Board to which he may refer any appeals made under section thirty-one. The Appeal Board shali consist-of not less than three and not more than five members of whom, if there are three members, not less than two, and, if there are more than three members, not less than three shall be persons having technical knowledge of mining.
(2) The Appeal Board shall for the purpose of hearing any appeal have the powers conferred by the Commissions Powers Ordinance 1902 of the Transvaal as in force in Swaziland, and shail report to the High Commissioner on each case referred to it.
' (3) The High Commissioner may confirm, set aside or vary the decision of the Resident Commissioner in respect of which an appeal is made, provided, that where any case is referred by the High Commissioner to the Appeal Board the High Commissioner shall before dealing with such case consider the report of the Appeal Board thereon.
(4) The Resident Commissioner shall cause the assessment list to be altered in accordance with any decision on appeal given by the High Commissioner.
33. (1) The amount of any tax assessed in the assessment list shali if there has been no objection to such assessment become due and payable sixty days after the deposit for inspection of the provisional assessment list. :
(2) Where there has been an objection to an assessment in a provisional assessment list the amount of the tax assessed shall be due and payable in accordance with the assessment as confirmed or varied thirty days after the objection thereto has been determined.
(3) The amount of any undeveloped minerals tax assessed in respect of any mineral concession area.or part thereof shall be paid by the mineral concessionaire and shall as soon as it becomes due and payable be deemed to be a débt due to the Government and may be sued for and recovered by action in any Court of competent jurisdiction by the Receiver of Revenue suing on behalf of the Government.
(4) A concessionaire shall be entitled to deduct from any amount of undeveloped minerals’ tax due by him for a calendar year such amount of the rental payable to the Government in respect of that year in terms of the deed of concession from which his title ig derived as may be proportionate to the area which he has declined or failed to consent to being thrown open for prospect- ing under section twenty-sia of this Proclamation.
(5) In case any amount of undeveloped minerals tax remains unpaid after the date upon which the same becomes due and payable interest upon the same shall be chargeable and recoverable y the Receiver of Revenue suing on behalf of the Government
at the rate of one-half per cent. for every month or portion of a month for which the tax remains unpaid reckoned from such date.
34. (1) Proceedings in any Court’ for the recovery of any tax payable hereunder shall be deemed to be proceedings for the recovery of a liquid debt.
(2) In any action or proceeding for the recovery of any tax payable hereunder it shall not be competent for the defendant to question the correctness of the assessment list as certified by the Resident Commissioner or any extract therefrom certified by the Receiver of Revenue.
35. The production of any assessment list certified by the Resident Commissioner or of any document under the hand of the Receiver of Revenue purporting to be a copy of or extract from any such list shall be conclusive evidence of the making of the assessment and, except in the case of proceedings on the hearing of any objection to the assessment, shall be conclusive evidence that the amount and all the particulars as to the area assessed appearing in such book or document are correct.
36. The Resident Commissioner, with the approval of the High Commissioner, may enter into an agreement with any conces- sionaire for a stated period providing for a definite amount to be expended by such concessionaire over such period in respect of the exploitation of his mineral concession area or a portion thereof, So long as the conditions of such agreement are duly discharged any area or portion thereof to which the agreement shall apply shall be deemed to be adequately exploited within the meaning of section twenty siz.
Cuapter V1.
Further Provisions as to Mineral Concessions.
37. Where any concessionaire makes application to the Resident Commissioner for leave to surrender a mineral concession the Resident Commissioner shall submit such application to the High Commissioner who may accept such surrender on such conditions
‘as he shall deem fit provided that no surrender shall be accepted by the High Commissioner until all claims under any mortgage
‘bond registered against such concession have been duly satisfied and until all the title-deeds held by the concessionaire have been delivered to the Resident Commissioner. The acceptance of any surrender of a mineral concession shall be notified in the Gazette and upon such notification all rights in respect of such concession shall be deemed to have been transferred to and shall vest in the High Commissioner on behalf of His Majesty. .
38. (1) When under the terms of a mineral concession the holder thereof is hable on the happening of a certain event to pay over and above any rental or other sum theretofore payable by him either a sum in the nature of a bonus or sums in the
74. OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR SOUTH AFRICA.
nature of rental, or both, such holder shall not be liable to pay any such additional sum by reason of any discovery made or work done under the authority of a prospecting permit or mining title issued under this Proclamation outside the concessionaire’s reserve, where such discovery is made or work done by some person other than the holder and not acting on his behalf.
(2) Where under the terms of a mineral concession it is provided that the holder thereof shall become liable on the happening of a certain event to pay over and above any rental or other sum theretofore payable by such holder either a sum in the nature of a bonus or sums in the nature of rental. or both such holder may notify to the Resident Commissioner in such form as the Resident Commissioner may prescribe his desire to commute such contingent liability for a liability to pay a royalty as prescribed by the next succeeding sub-section and at the same time declare a domicilium citandi et executandi chosen by him in Swaziland.
‘The Resident Commissioner shall upon receipt of such notification and declaration fix a date not being more than twelve months subsequent to the date of such receipt upon which such commuta- tion shall take effect and such commutation shall take effect accordingly.
(8) The royalty payable under sub-section (2) shall be an amount equal to two and a half per cent. of the annual net produce obtaining from mining, such net produce shall be taken to be the value of the precious or base metals produced after deduction therefrom of the cost of production.
(4) The provisions, of the Profits Tax (Gold Mines) Proclama- tion 1902 of the Transvaal as amended by the General Revenue Amendment Ordinance 1906 shall apply mutatis mutandis with respect to the assessment and recovery of the royalty payable under this section as if the same were a tax payable under that Proclamation provided always that in assessing the amount of such royalty no allowance shall be made in respect of the ex- haustion of capital.
(5) The royalty payable in respect of a commuted mineral con- cession under this Proclamation shall be in addition to
(a) any sum in the nature of rental or royalty which may be payable under the terms of such concession at the date of commutation and
(b) any sum payable in respect of such concession under the- provisions of section nineteen of the Swaziland Administra- tion Proclamation 1904 or any amendment thereof.
(6) Save as in this section provided nothing in this Proclama- tion shall affect the liability of the holder of any mineral conces- sion to pay rental in accordance with the terms of his concession ;
- provided however that in the case of a mineral concession which has been declared open for prospecting under section four of this Proclamation the holder thereof shall not be liable to pay royalty in respect of metals won from the land held under such concession other than metals won from the concessionaire’s reserve or other- wise by himself or his agents.
Crapter VIT.
General.
_ 39. (1) The High Commissioner may from time to time by notice in the Gazette make alter and rescind regulations for any or all of the following purposes : —
(i) For prescribing the form of prospecting permits, prospecting and diggers’ licences, and leases to be issued under this Proclamation and for prescribing any other forms to be used for the purpose of this Proclamation;
Gi) for prescribing the mode of pegging of claims and in what ‘manner the boundaries of claims shall be indicated by pegs or beacons, and the ature of such pegs or beacons;
Gili) for prescribing the conditions under which base metal claims may be converted into precious metal claims, and vice versa and the conditions under which prospecting and mining for precious metals may be permitted on base metal claims and the conditions under which prospecting and mining for base metals may be permitted on precious metal claims, and the conditions under which persons may be com- pelled to take out precious metal licences for claims held as base metal claims; ‘
Gv) for controlling the use of the surface of ground held under mining title ;
(v) for controlling and regulating the use of water on any pro- claimed land and for the issue, cancellation or withdrawal of water-right grants;
(vi) for prescribing the payment of fees and charges in con- nection with any matter which may be dealt with by regula- tion ;
(vii) for providing for the registration of claims or licences and of leases and water rights issued under this Proclamation and for transfers or mortgages thereof ;
(viii) for prescribing the manner in which the rights mentioned in paragraph (b) of section nineteen shall be offered for lease and leased and the terms to be included in any such ease ;
(ix) generally for the bette carrying out of the purpose of this Proclamation or any amendment thereof.
Such regulations may prescribe as penalties for contravention thereof fines not exceeding fifty pounds and in default of payment imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, and daily penalties may be imposed for a continuing contravention.
(2) Until further notice the regulations published under High - Commissioner’s Notice No. 36.of 1914, as amended by High Com- missioner’s Notice No. 142 of 1927 shall be deemed to apply mutatis
' mutandis to mineral.areas thrown open for prospecting and mining under this Proclamation, in addition to any regulations issued under this section.
_ 40. Whenever under this Proclamation or any regulations made thereunder the Resident Commissioner is authorized or required to investigate any matter or hear any application or objection he
. shall for the purposes of the investigation or of hearing the applica- ‘tion or objection have all the powers conferred by the Commissions Power Ordinance 1902 of the Transvaal as in force in Swaziland.
41. Any notice or other document required by this Proclama- tion or any regulation to be served upon any person shall be deemed to be effectually served if delivered personally to such person, or left at his last usual place of abode or business or sent
by registered post to his last known postal address, or whenever such person is absent from Swaziland, if such notice or document is served in manner aforesaid on any agent or representative in the territory of such person.
42, Any person who without.lawful authority prospects or mines for precious or base metal¢ on any land thrown open for prospect- ing or proclaimed under this Proclamation shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds and in default of payment to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six weeks, and to a further fine of five pounds and in default of payment to imprisonment for a period not exceeding seven days for every day upon which such prospect- ing or mining has been carried on. ; .
48, Any person who prospects or mines for any precious or base metal on any portion of land thrown open for prospecting or proclaimed under this Proclamation. on .which prospecting or mining for such metal is not authorized or is expressly forbidden by this Proclamation shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds and in default of payment to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months and to a further fine of ten pounds and in default of payment to imprisonment for a period not exceeding fourteen days for every day upon which such prospecting or mining has been carried on,
44, (1) Any person prospecting or mining on land thrown open for prospecting or proclaimed under this Proclamation shall on the request of the Resident Commissioner or of any Assistant Commissioner or of any person duly. authorized by the Resident Commissioner to make such request produce the permit, licence or other document under the authority of which such prospecting or mining is being carried on. . . .
(2) Any person failing to comply with the requirements of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds and in default of payment to imprisonment for a period not exceeding seven days.
45. Any person who
(a) wilfully alters, moves or damages. any beacon or peg erected under this Proclamation or the regulations; . .
(v) knowingly pegs any claim on land held under mining title by another without his permission in writing or on land forming part of a concessionaire’s reserve or on a native area ; ;
(ce) occupies or resides upon land thrown open for prospecting or proclaimed under this Proclamation without any permit or licence or other right to occupy such land and fails to remove therefrom when ordered by or under the authority of the Resident Commissioner,
shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds and in default of payment thereof to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year. .
46. Any person who .
(a) unlawfully removes ore from ground held under.any mining title; or a
(b) wilfully damages or attempts to damage any mine machinery, watercourse, or other mining property situate on proclaimed land ;
shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds or to imprisonment with or without the option of a fine for a pericd not exceeding five years. . :
47. The Swaziland Mineral Rights Taxation Proclamation 1921 (No. 33 of 1921) shall be and is hereby repealed.
48. This proclamation may be cited for all purposes as The Mineral Concession Areas (Swaziland) Proclamation 1927, and shall have force and take effect from the first day of January, 1928.
Gop Savz tHE Kine. Given under my Hand and Seal at Pretoria this nineteenth day
of December One thousand Nine bundred and Twenty-seven.
ATHLONE, High Commissioner.
By Command of His Excellency the High Commissioner. é
B. BE. H. CLIFFORD, / : Imperial Secretary/ ao
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d Sa. (Printed by the Government Printer, Pretoria.) f
a“ P \ BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE. /
Notice is hereby given, under section five of Proclamation No.
48 of 1907, that the undersigned intend to apply to the Resident Commissioner to divert the undermentioned road, viz. :—
So much of the Lobatsi-Bathoen road which traverses the farm “Woodhall? and the B.S.A. Coy’s Estate ‘‘ Woodlands’? from a point about 5. miles north of Lobatsi where the said road crosses to the east of the Railway line and proceeds north for about 34 miles and then crosses to the west of the Railway line, so that the road will run close te and parallel with the Railway line for a distance of about 3% miles.
: J. P. MULLIGAN. J. F. CRONJE.
Lobatsi, 19th October, 1927. 28 Oct.—25 N.—-23 D.°
LOST TITLE-DEED.
Notice is hereby given that we intend applying for a certified copy of certain Swaziland Cession No. 10/1924, registered on the 18th March, 1924, made by Jacob Johannes Nortje in favour of Charles Ethelberd Nunn, whereby certain three-tenths (3/10ths) share of and in certain farm Doorndraai No. 113B, forming part of Land Concession No. 1 P, situate in the District of HMlatikulu, Swaziland, measuring 906 morgen 391 square roods, was conveyed.
And all persons having objection to the issue of such copy are hereby required to lodge the same in writing with the Registrar of Deeds for Swaziland, at Pretoria, within three months from the first publication of this notice.
Dated at Pretoria, this 21st day of November, 1927. °
STEGMANN, OOSTHUIZEN & JACKSON, 2-9-16-23 Attorneys for Applicant.
OFFICIAL GAZETTE. oF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR SOUTH AFRICA.
LOST TITLE-DEED.
Notice is hereby given that we intend applying for a certified copy of certain Swaziland Cession No. 11/1924, registered on the 13th March, 1924, made by Johannés Cornelis Nel in favour of Charles Hthelberd Nunn, whereby certain one-tenth (1/10th) share of and in certain farm Doorndraai No. 118B, forming part of Land Concession No. 1 P, situate in the District of Hlatikuli, Swaziland, measuring 906 morgen 391 square roods, was conveyed. .
And all persons having objection to the issue of such copy are hereby required to lodge the same in writing with the Registrar of Deeds for Swaziland, at Pretoria, within three months from the first publication of this notice.
Dated at Pretoria, this 21st day of November, 1927.
STEGMANN, OOSTHUIZEN & JACKSON, 2-9-16-23 Attorneys for Applicant.
LOST TITLE-DEED.
Notice is hereby given that we intend applying for a certifiea copy of certain Swaziland Cession No. 55/1923, registered on the
i dth September, 1928, made by the Estate of the late Abraham _ ’ Johannes Vermeulen in favour of Abraham Johannes Vermeulen,
Barend Hermanus Fourie, and Anna Roseina Petronelie Vermeulen, minor spinster, whereby certain three-fifths (8/5ths) share of and in certain farm Doorndraai No. 113 B, forming part of Land Concession No. 1 P, situate in the District of Hlatikulu, Swazi- land, measuring 906 morgen 391 square roods, was conveyed.
And all persons having objection to the issue of such copy are hereby required to lodge the same in writing with the Registrar of Deeds for Swaziland, at Pretoria, within three months from the first publication of this notice. ,
Dated at Pretoria, this 21st day of November, 1927.
. STEGMANN, OOSTHUIZEN & JACKSON, 2-9-16-23 Attorneys for Applicant.
MANKAIANA POUND, SWAZILAND.
i To be sold in front of the Court-house at Mankaiana on the : . 28th of December next, at 12 noon, one grey donkey stallion,
unbranded. Terms cash to the highest bidder. ‘
M. C. TEMPLE, Poundmaster.
Printed at the Government Printing and Stationery Office, Pretoria.
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Generali Notices—(continuéd) : PAGE
MisceLnaNEous—(continued) :
*xNo. 982. Water Court of the Water Court District No. 10—Application ... . . 649
*x ,, 983. Water Court of the Water Court District No. 3—Application ... . . 650
* ,, 984. Water Court of the Water Court District No. 10—Applcation :..'. . 650
* ,, 985. Water Court of the Water Court District No. : 10—-Application ... . 651
* ,, 986. Water Court of the Water Court District No. 3—Application ... . .. 651
* ,, 987. Loerie. River Irrigation “Board—LHlection of Member ... .. 651
* ,, 988. Application for “Discoverer’s Rights i in Mining District of Ottoshoop . . 651
*x ,, 989. List of New Businesses Registered . .. 652 & ,, 990. Arrear Licence Fees, etc., due on Claims in
Zululand... 656 *x ,, 991. Ohrigstad River’ Board—Election ‘of Members 657 * ,, 993. Formidable Epidemic Diseases in the Union—
Monthly Statement ... vee eee tee nee eee 657 * ,, 994. Weekly Public Health Bulletin ... |. . 657 % 4, 995. Application for Registration of “certain ‘Dis-
coverer’s Claims ... 0.1... c.. ce e ecee ee ee 688
— — Tenders ... * 658-665 — —- Sale of Obsolete and ‘Redundant Stores, etc. ... 666
Pustic SERVICE COMMISSION : . :
—_ — Vacancies for Temporary Clerks of Works ... ... 666 4 — Vacancy for Clerk-Stenographer ... wee . 666
x— — Vacancies for Matron at Hshowe Cottage “Hos- - pital and Newcastle Cottage Hospital ... ... 666
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Patents andyIrade Marka wee ens eee eee wee cee ii Transvaal Province see vee aes wee we wee x Cape of Good Hope Province... vee tee wee vee w xxvii Natal Province ee oe wee wee wee xxxii Orange Free State Province... see tee vee wae w. XEEV
. xxxvii Estate Notices
Algemene Kennisgewings—(vervolg):
BLAD SY
Gemencp—(vervolg) :
%xNo. 982. Waterhof van Waterhofdistrik No. 10—Appli-
kasie ... . . 649 x 4, 983. Waterhot van ““Waterhofdistrik No. “3-"Appli-
kasie ... ... . 650 #4, 984. Waterhof van ““Waterhofdistrik No. 8—Appli-
Kkasie ... ccc cee cee cee ene cee cee tee eee eee nee eee 650 * ,, 985. Waterhof van Waterhofdistrik No. 8—Appli-
kasie 0. 0. cee cee cee eee eee eee cee tee ete eee eee G51 %* ,, 986. Waterhof van Waterhofdistrik No. 8—-Appli-
kasie ... ..... - 651 %* 4, 987. Loerierivier I Besprociingsraad—Verkiesing van
i 651 * ,, 988. Toekenning yan ‘ ontdekkersregte, “Distrik Rus-
tenburg . 651 x ,, 989. Lys van ceregistreerde ‘huwe hesighede, “Trans-
vaal ... eee ee 652 * ,, 990. Voorgenome “Yervalleverklaring — yan sekere
kieims, Natal ... . . 656 mm ,, 991. Ohrigstad Rivierdistrik—Verkiesing ‘yan lede... 657. x ,, 993. Gedugte epidemiese siektes, November 1927 ... 657 * ,, 994. Weeklikse bulletien van besmetlike siektes... ... 657 xm ,, 995. Natal Mynwet, 1899 —Applikasie vir r rogistrasie
van sekere kleims ... ... 658
—_— — Tenders ... .. a. 658-665 — .— Verkoop van “yeronderds. en oortallige voorraad,
(ODS. cee cee cee cee cee cee tee cee tee nee nee ee eee 666
STAATSDIENSKOMMISSIE :
— — WVakatures vir , Tydelike Klerke van Werke ... 666
— — Vakature vir ’n Klerk-stenograaf . sees ee 666 — — Vakatures vir Matrone, Cottage Hospitale, Hs-
howe en Newcastle ... . 666
ADVERTENSIES. .
Patente en Handelsmerke eee we toe ane wee tee ii Provinsie Transvaal eee wee tee aes eee x Provinsie Kaap die Goeie Hoop... wee ses one wee w= Exvii Provinsie Natal ... see we aes wee w= XExii Provinsie Oranje-Vrystaat wee wee ae wee oe wa.) XXXV Boedel-kennisgewings ... ose se oe eee oe w. Exxvii
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