The hydraulic press. (North San Juan, Nev. Co., Cal.) 1858-18??, 1858-10-16

posed bill for au +" Act to Authorize
and Establish Uniform Boundaries to
Mining Claims was originally pub
lished in the Nevada National al the
request of a miner:
"SEcrIoN 1. The County Surveyor of
each county in the counties of Nevada, ST.
ezra, Sc, &C., (mining counties) be and are
hereby authorized (or require6 to extend
the township lines, as surveyed by the United
States Surveyor General for the State of
California, throughout the counties named in
the 1st section of this act.
"SECrIoN g 1t shall be the duty of the
County Surveyor of each of the counties
named in the 1st section of this act to survey
the Mining Claims of any owner of such
claims, when he shall be requested by snch
owner, and all such survey shall be estab-
lshed by and from one or more of the Town
ship lines in the County which such claims
may be located.
"SECTIoN 8 The owner of any mining
claim, surveyed in accordance with the pro-
visions of this act, recording in the Office of
the County Recorder in the county in which
such claim is located, the map and notes of
the survey, and paying to the county treas
ury of such county annually the sum of ten
dollars, shall be entitled to hold said claim
for one year-and the certificate of re-
cord of such survey and the certificate of
the county auditor that such payment has
been made shall be prima face evidence of
title to such claim so surveyed in any court
in this State.
"SEcTIoN 4. Money paid INTO the coun-
ty treasury, for the use of the county and
one half to the State
"SEcTIoN 5 Nothing in this act shall be
construed so as to compel any miner to sur
vey and record his claim or claims, and no.
thing in this act shall be so Construed as to
repeal or annul any rules or regulations of
any mining district of the Stste, or 10 pre-
vent the miners of any district from adoptin g
hereafter any rules or regulations for their
government"
1t was not our intention to copy
this proposed bill, not deeming it wor-
thy of serious notice unless it should
actually come before the Legislature !;
but at the request of an intelligent
correspondent We have inserted it.
The correspondent alluded to does
not think it 'emanated from the brain
of any practical miner possessing a
general acquaintance with the laws
of the several mining districts of Me-
vada county" He is +" disposed to
regard with q jealous eye any en-
croachment upon mining rights, whe-
Their emanating from 'cow-county
member or an amateur mining legis
lator," and thinks the proposed law
ought to be published and discussed.
In our opinion there is no danger of
any law ever being passed to define
the boundaries Of mining claims.
Even if such a law as outlined above
were passed, it would be a nullity, for
sec. 5 provides that nothing in the
act shall be construed so as to compel
any miner to survey and record his
claim or claims, and that existing
rules or regulations shall not be re-
pealed, nor the right to make others
interfered with. Of what avail a law
providing for, but not requiring an
official survey Of claims already suffi-
GENTLY we'll surveyed and recorded
under local rules
And all such survey shall be es-
tablished by and from one or more of
the township lines p This might
have done at the beginning, but to
attempt it now, even if there were
any thing to be gained byit, would be
like trying to make the thread of a
SPIDERS web conform to a given line.
But the special feature of the pro-
posed bill is the annual fee, from each
claim, of ten dollars, the certificate
of payment of which shall be prima
facie evidence of title to such claim
in the courts. An indirect way of
taxing mining claims, we take it, if
surveys were made compulsory and
no better " evidence of title" is want
ed than possession already gives.
The MINES. Although a majority