Ballarat District Gold Mining Lease: February 1894 lease to the New Mariner Gold Mining Company, signed by the Governor of Victoria, Lord Hopetoun, with attached map, a 15 year lease at £7/4/10 [Seven pounds, four shillings and tenpence] per annum., Under the terms of the lease the lessee must 'employ....in mining operations...fourteen able and competent workmen and miners at the least not being Chinese.....