The Placer herald., 1866-11-24
Mining Laws of Township No. 10, Placer
County, California.

ARTICLE l. The jurisdiction Of the following
laws shall extend over all mineral veins within
Township No, 10, Placer comfy.
ART 2. Any person citizen of the Unised
States, or any person having taken the necessary
steps to become citizen of the United States,
shall be entitled to locate one quartz claim on a
quartz ledge or vein of mineral; each claim
shall he two hundred feet in length, and shall in
clude all the dips spurs angles and variations of
the ledge. and twenty feet of all cross ledges on
each side Of the ledge claimed, and said claimant
shall be entitled to one hundred feet of ground
on each side of the ledge, for the purpose of
working the ledge; prorided, however, that the
granting of the above mentioned one hundred
feet on each side Of the ledge shall not be con-
strued to include any parallel lodges or inter-
fere prevent the working of such parallel ledg-
es, or cross lodges. except within twenty feet on
eaah side OF the ledge claimed.
ART. 3. On the location of claim or claims
by any person or persons, notices shall be immc-
diately posted on said claim or claims, describing
the same by metes and bounds and within ten
days from the time Of such location copy Of
such notice must be recorded in the office of the
County Recorder; such notice to be so recorded
as to contain full description of such clatm or
claims together with the name or names of the
person or persons locating the same.
ART. 4. Work to the extent of twenty dollars
in value shall be performed by each person or
company holding any claim or claims within
as provided for in Article 3 of these laws for
every two hundred feet of ledge or vein claimed
by such person or company; and the duly author
lied agent or any member of 4 company making
oath that labor to the value of twenty dollars for
each claim of said company has been actually
performed, shall be entitled to a certificate from
the County Recorder, or his Deputy, guarantee
ing undisturbed possession Of said claim or
claims for one year from the date of recording
said claim or claims, and like sum of money,
or the value thereof expended or performed
within thirty days of each succeeding year, duly
acknowledged as herein named, shall entitle the
claimants or company from ayear to year to
further certificates Of undisputed proprietorship
ART. s. Whenever the requisite amount of
money or labor, as provided for in Article 4, has
not been expended within sixty days from the
date of recording any claim or claims, then such
claim or claims so neglected shall be considered
abandoned, and shall be subject to he relocated
by any other party or parties; prouided. that
when any person or company have located any
claim or claims under these laws, and have failed
to perform the necessary amount OF labor as pro-
vided for in Article 4, they shall not be entitled
to relocate the same claims until after the exp-
ration of ten days from the time said claims be-
came abandoned.
ART. 6. All claims heretofore located under
the District laws, not complying with the provis-
ions of these laws, shall be considered abandoned
after the expiration Of sixty days from the date
of the adoption of these laws by the District
in which such claims are located; and shall be
subject to bo relocated by any other party or par
ties
ART. 7. The regularly elected County Rccor-
der shall serve as Recorder Of Mining Claims
for Township No. 10, authenticating his acts with
his official seal, and he shall pass his records TO
his successor in office.
ART, 8. No title to claim hereafter located
or taken up shall be valid, unless recorded in
the books of the County Recorder, within ten
days from the date of such location.
ART. 9. The County Recorder shall receive
the sum of fifty cents for each and every claim
recorded in Township No. 10.
The foregoing laws were enacted by the citi-
sens of Township No. TO- Placer county, at Val.
ley View, Tuesday, August 2lst, 1866.
W. II. SMYTH, Chairman.
A BIeKNELI, Secretary.