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                    [0] => These application files contained the documentation relating to persons applying for mining privileges in the Lawrence Warden's Court, which included applications for the Waitahuna and Waipori areas.
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            [id] => 25328
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            [name] => Lawrence Application files
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                    [custom5] => Folded legal files and guard books
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	Note that other series also contain applications (for example, series 25244 Lawrence Mining Surveyor Leases Application Books).

	This series also includes applications from the Waipori and Waitahuna Warden's Court, which was merged with the Lawrence Warden's Court about 1867.

	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 Lawrence, Waipori and Waitahuna Warden's Courts. 

	Prospective applicants were required to file a Notice of Intention to Apply for a mining privllege in a prominent place. This would allow any objectors to file an objection with the Warden, and also for the Warden to require a survey to be done.

	Once an application was lodged it was entered into the Register of Applications and then heard by the Warden.

	Applications had to be filed on forms prescribed in regulations issued under the Gold Fields' Acts and Mines Act 1877 and its successors. The following is a list of application types: 

	

		Agricultural and mining leases and licenses, for example, prospecting licenses
	

		Water rights and licenses, for water races, head races, tail races, dams, etc. 
	

		Surrender, protection, transfer and amalgamation of claims
	

		Ordinary, special and extended claims (alluvial, dredging etc.)
	

		Residence or business sites


	The application files can 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


	If the application was successful then a licence was issued. A number of the files also have copies of the registered licence attached to them.

	The sequences of applications from the 1930s and 1940s sometimes included MB (Minute Book) applications. These had their own annual single number sequence but were top-numbered into the regular applications sequence as well.
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