Grass Valley telegraph., 1857-08-29
MINING LAWS

Passed by the Miners of Grass Valley July o. 1857:
ARTICLE l. The Jurisdiction of the following laws
shall extend over all quartz mines, and quartz min
ing property within the Township of Grass Valley in
the County of Nevada and State of California.
ART 2 Each proprietor or locator of quartz
claim, shall hereafter be entitled to claim two hun
dred feet square, embracing all quartz lodges spurs.
pay dirt or gravel that may be contained therein:
and the dscoverer first locator on vein or lead of
quartz, pay dirt or gravel shall be entitled to hold
an additional claim of the same size and with the
same privileges.
ART g. Mo man shall, by virtue of the pre-emp.
tion privilege herein granted, hold >uartz claims
nearer to each other than one half mile.
ART. 4. All quartz claims hereafter taken up or
Nocated shall be surveyed by the County Surveyor of
Nevada County said survey to be made from meri.
dian or base line to be established by the County Sur
veyor for that purpose, and plat OF map of the
same, with claimants names filed and recorded in
Book kept for that purpose the Office of the County
Recorder of Nevada County.
ART. 8. The regularly elected County Recorder of
Nevada County shall serve as Recorder of Mining
Claims for the district Township of Grass Valley,
authentcating his acts by the County Seal and his
fees for recording shall be the the statute fees
for recording per folio.
ART. 6. Any person shall hereafter be entitled to
hold one claim by location provided in articles I'd
and 4th of these Laws, and many more as he NAV
purchase in good faith, for valuable consideration
fol which certificates of propretorship shs be issued
by the County Recorder.
ART. 7. The locator of quartz claim shall define
his boundaries by stakes notices on the claim and
he will be allowed thirty days from that time to have
his claims surveyed and recorded provided for in
Article 4th of these Laws.
ART. 8. Work to the extent of One Hundred DOL
lars in value Twenty Days faithful labor shall be
performed by any person company holding claim
or claims adjoining each other, not to exceed Ten
in number, within thirty days from the date of re-
cording the same as provided for in Article 4th and
the owner of claim, or the duly authorized repre-
sentative of company, making oath that such mon
ey has been expended, or that such labor has been
performed shall be entitled to certificate from the
County Recorder granting possession and pre-emp.
ton title to said claim claims for the space of one
year from the date of recording the same, and for a
like sum of money, or amount of labor expended or
performed within sixty days of each succeeding wear
duly acknowledged herein named shall entite the
claimant, or company to like certificate of owner
ship from year to year, under these laws provided
that nothing in these articles shall be at any time in
consietent with the laws of the United States.
If any person or company own more than the num-
Der of claims specified above, the proportonste
amount of labor must be performed for each addit-
ional claim, or said claims are hereby abandoned.
ART. O.. ANY person or company holding claims
under the existing laws or regulations may relocate
ard record their claims under the above written
laws, provided, however that they file their original
records as evidence of ownership in the Office Of the
County Recorder of Nevada County, subject 10 future
reference u there should be any dispute hereaf
ter in regard to boundaries titles of said claims
ART TO- Notitle to quartz claim hereafter taken
up or purchased in the District of Grass Valley Town
ship will be valid unless surveyed and recorded,
stated in article 4th of those Laws and all bills Of
sale, transfer, assignments of interests in any
quartz claim shall be recorded in the books Of the
County Recorder of Nevada County, within thirty
days after the same has been made.
ART IL These laws shall be in full force and effect
Son and after the 1st day of August next A. D. 1857
ARr IL The County Quartz Laws hetstof0ls ex.
listing and in force hereby repealed and declared
void, so far as they apply TO ths Township Of Grass
Valley,