Grass Valley telegraph., 1858-07-03
HEENzNG LAWS

Passed by the Miners of Grass Valley July "a 1851
ARTICLE 1. The Jurisdiction of the following Law
shall extend 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 or a Quartz
claim shall hereafter be entitled to claim two hun
dred feet square embracing IL quartz ledges spurs
pay dirt or gravel that may be contained therein
and the discoverer first l0ca1er on vein or lead f
quartz, pay dirt gravel. shall lie entitled 10 hold
an additional claim of tie aaI4e SIZE and with lie
same privileges.
ART. g. Mo man shall. BY virtue of the rrc.enrp-
tion privilege herein granted, hold ,uartz claims
rearer to each other than half mile.
ART All quartz claims hereafter taken up er
located shall be survered by tie County Surve, or 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 map Of the
same with claimants fled and recorded In
book kept for that purpose the office OF the County
Recorder of Nevada County.
Art. s. The regularly elected County Recorder Of
Nevada County shall serve as Recorder of Mining
Claims for the district OF 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 claim by location as provided in articles ID
and 4th of these Laws, and as many more as he may
purchase in good faith fer valuable consideration
fo1 which certificates OF propretorshp shs be issued
by the County Recorder
ART Z. The locator of a quartz claim shaU define
his boundaries by stakes notices on The claim and
he will be allowed thirty days from that time to have
ms CLAIMS surveyed ard recorded provided for in
Article 4th OF these Laws.
ART. s. Work to the extent of One Hundred Dol-
lars IN value or Twenty lays faithful labor shall be
performed by any person or 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 provided for in Article 4th and
the owner of claim, the duly authorized repre-
sentative of company, making oath that such mon
ey has been expended, that such LABOR has been
performed shall be entitled to certificate from the
| DOSSeSSlOQ. Ule-eTnn-
tion title to said claim claims for the space of one
wear from The date of recording the same, and for
| like sum of money or amount OF labor expended or
performed within sixty days of each succeeding year.
du1v acknow lodged herein named. shall enttle the
claimant or company like certificate of owner
| shin from year to year. under these laws provided
that nothing in these articles shall be any time in
consietent with the laws of the United States.
| If any person or company more than the num-
of claims specified above the same proportionate
amount OF labor must be performed for each addit-
! ional claim, or said claims hereby abandoned
ART y. any person or company holding claims
under the existing laws regulations may re locate
and 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 III case there should be any dispute hereaf
ter in regard to boundaries or titles of said claims
ART. 10. No little to quartz claim hereafter taken
up purchaeed in the District of Grass Valley Town
ship will be valid unless surveyed and recorded as
stated in article 4th of those Laws and all bills of
sale, transfer, or assignments of interests in anv
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 ben full force and effect
on and after the 1st day of August next A. d. 1857
ART. II. The County Quartz Laws heretofore ex
void so far they apply to the Township of Grass
Valley.