A permit to dig for gold.
the final injustice for diggers was the introduction of a compulsory gold licence
Example sentencesExamples
- To control the miners, and to make money for the new colony, the Victorian governor introduced a gold licence.
- They formed a league to oppose the gold licence and the brutal enforcement of it.
- Despite being denied the right to vote, they were forced to pay a gold licence.
- Their next meal depends on their finding gold to pay for it and their gold licence.
- Most significant of Australian gold-rush ephemera is the gold licence, a key item in the prospector's often meagre possessions.