Colonial Despatches

The Bedrock Flume Company was a company operated by gold miners. James Douglas writes in his ordinance on 26 February 1864, that the Bedrock Flume Company may enter on abandoned ground and shall be entitled to all the gold deposited in the flume.1 Douglas further states that the company is entitled to the use of unoccupied and unappropriated water of the streams for the foundations of the flumes. The ordinance was placed in order to extend and improve upon the laws relating to gold mining.2

• 1. James Douglas, No.4. An Ordinance to extend and improve the Laws relating to Gold Mining, 26 February 1864, p.2.
• 2. Ibid., 2-3.