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                    [0] => These application files contained the documentation relating to persons applying for mining privileges in the Clyde Warden's Court.
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            [name] => Clyde Application files
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	From 2010, the Dunedin Branch of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists listed individual applications up to 1900 by name for access on Archway. Applications after 1900 are accessible through the Application and Mining Privilege Registers created by each Warden's Court. Applications were grouped together, rather than being separated out by type (tail races, water races, residence sites, etc.).
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	These application files contained the documentation relating to persons applying for mining privileges in the Clyde Warden's Court. Applications were primarily for water races and claims. Water races included head, tail, and branch races. Claims included amalgamation, transfers and surrenders of claims. Usually, the applicant would give the Warden notice of the applications. This would allow for objections to be made and for any surveying to be undertaken before the Warden made his decision.

	From 1877, applications had to be filed on forms prescribed in regulations issued under Mines Act 1877 and its successors.  The following was a list of application types -

	

		Application for Licence for Tail-race (or Main Tail-race)
	

		Application for Certificate of Protection
	

		Application for Licence for residence-site (or Specified Business-site)
	

		Application for Water-race
	

		Application for Licence for a Claim
	

		Application for Licence for a Dam
	

		Application for Amalgamation of Claims
	

		Application to Surrender Mining Privilege absolutely


	The application files could contain some or all of the following items -

	

		Plan showing extent of application
	

		Objections
	

		Correspondence
	

		Summons for Witness to appear
	

		Copy of Issued Licence
	

		Reports by Government Departments


	Once an application was lodged it was entered into the Register of Applications and then heard by the Warden.  If the application was successful then a Licence was issued. A number of the files also had copies of the registered licence attached to them.

	Some of the applications in this series that date from the 1860s seem to have originated in the Alexandra and Cromwell Wardens' Courts.
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            [ricClassificationDescription] => Annual single number.  Only used consistently from 1887, prior to which files were either chronological or by type of application.
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	Some records in this series are fragile and need to be handled with extra care. To protect the record, the method of copying will be at the discretion of Archives New Zealand.
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