The Placer herald., 1866-12-29
Mining Laws Of Township No. 10, Placer
County, California.

Mining Laws of Township No. 10, Placer
County, California.
ARTICLE |. The jurisdiction OF the following
laws shall extend over all mineral veins within
Township No. 10. Placer comfy.
AFT. 2. ANY person citizen of the Unised
States, or any person having taken the necess ry
steps to become Il citizen Of the United States
shall be entitled to locate one quartz claim on a
quartz ledge or vein of mineral; each claim
shall be two hundred feet in length. and shall III
cluie all the dips. spurs angles and variations of
the ledge, and twenty feet Of all cross led yes on
each side of the ledge claimed. and said claimant
shall be entitled TO one hundred feet Of groan.l
on each side of the ledge, for the purpose OF
working the led sc; provided. however, that the
granting of the above mentioned one hundred
feet on each side Of the ledge shah not be con-
strued to include any parallel lodges or inter
fcre or prevent the working of such parallel ledg-
cs or cross lcdgcs except within twenty feet Oh
eaah side OF The ledge claimed.
ART s. On the location OF q claim or claims
by any person or persons, notices shall be iMnc-
datey posted on snid claim or claims, describing
the same by metes and boan.ls, and within ten
days from the time Of sueh location copy of
such notice must be recorded in the Office OF the
County Recorder; such notice to be so recorded
as TO contain fnl description Of such clatm or
claims, together with the name or names of the
person or persons lOCallnS lne same
ART 4. Work to the extent OF twenty dollars
in value shall be performed by each person or
company holding any claim claims within
sixty days from the date of recording the same.
as provided for in Article of these laws, for
every two hundred feet OF ledge or vein claimed
by such person or company, and the du uly aut hor
lied agent or any member Of company making
oath that labor 10 The value OF twenty dollars for
each claim of said company has been actually
performed, shall be entitled to certificate from
the County Recorder, or his Depaty. guarantee
ing undisuTbed possession OF said claim or
claims for one year from the date of recording
said claim or claims, and q like sum Of money,
or the value thereof expended or performed
within thirty days Of each succeeding year. duly
acknowledged rs herein named, shall entitle the
claimants OF company from year to year TO
further certificates Of undisprted proprictorship.
ART. 5. 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 cha i'm or claims then such
abandoned, and shall be subject 10 be relocated
by any other party or parties; pyesiaea. that
when any person or company have located any
claim or claims under these laws, and have failed
to perform the necessary amount oil labor as pro-
vided for in Article 4. they shall not be entitled
to relocate the same claims until after the expi-
ration of ten days from the time said claims be-
came abandoned.
ART. s. AN claims heretofore located nnter
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 be relocated by any other party or par
ties.
ART. The regularly elected County Reeor-
der shall serve as Recorder Of Mining Claims
for Township No 10, auihentcating bis acts with
his official seal, and he shall pass his records 10
his successor in Office.
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. 8. 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. 10. Placer county, at Val.
ley View, Tuesday, August 2st. 1866.
W. II. SMYTH, Chairman.
A BIcKxELL, Secretary.
Mining Laws Of Township. No.: 6, Placer
County.
Article l. This District shall be known and
designated as Township No. Quartz Mining Dis
trict, and the boundaries shall be those Of the
township.
Art 2. The jurisdiction of the following laws
shall extend to and define the rights and privi-
leges OF those who may locate claims upon veins
or lodcs OF quartz or other rock containing gold
silver, cinnabar. or copper, within this district.
Art. s. Any citizen or qualified person shall be
entitled to locate, or own 10y the location OF 9th
ers, but two hundred feet along the line, or upon
the same vein or lode. Every claim OF two hun.
dred feet or less shall include all dipsspurs, angles
and variations OF the main lode, together with the
crossing parallel veins or lodes, within twenty
feet of the sama upon both sides; provided. that
al. al 1n.a nOa1
follows the dip of the main vein or lode, Any
person locating vein or lode. within this district
may claim at right angles lrsm Me main lode
and wholly upon the one or partly upon both SIDE
two hundred feet Of surface ground lorconvenient'
| ly working the mine; but such claim OF surface
ground shall not include others than the vein or
lode prov ded tnr in this article nor prevent L.
er parties from working such vein o. lode.
| Art. H. The discovercr OF a vein OF lode shall
be entitled to locate two hundred feet in addition
to the rights aud privileges accorded 10 others by
! these laws.
Art. 5. Amy person claiming more than two
hundred feet in the same lode, except as provided
for in Article 4, and except by actual. bona Jfdt
purchase, shall be considered as abandoning al
feet in excess of the first two hundred feet loca
| ted in his name, and such excess may be claimed
and recorded by any other party not owner by 10
cation on the same vein or lode.
Art. 6. Upon the location of q claim or claims
notice snail Dc pOsteu upon Tue iooes "uici
shall clearly have written the name or names p
the locators, the general direction Of the veir2 p
lode, the surface ground, if located upon on5Pl
10th sides Of the main vein or lode.
Art. 7. A copy of the notice provided for il
Article shall be recorded 10 the Book OF Record
in this district, within ten days after being postet
ON the vein or lode. The record shall also stat'
the boundaries of the claim. its locality in tA'
District. and that the claim is first, second, ect.
northcrly or southerly easterly or westerly, iron
the first location on the same vein or lodei bu
no record shall be made Of acclaim containing
more than three thousand feet Of the lodc