The Placer herald., 1867-01-19
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.
ART 2. Any person citizen OF the Unlsed
States, or any person having taken the necess ry
steps to become citizen Of the United States,
shall be entitled to locate one quartz claim on
quartz ledge or vein Of mineral each claim
shall be 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 lodges 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; provided. however, that the
granting of the above mentioned one hundred
feet on each side Of the ledge shall not be con-
srued to include any parallel ledges or inter
fcre or prevent the working of such parallel ledg-
cs, 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 ilnmc.
diately posted on said claim or claims, describing
the same by metcs and bounds, and within ten
DAYS from the time of such location 4 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.
A.,
in value shall be performed by each person or
company holding any claim or 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 duly author
lied agent or any member OF n 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 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 a 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 or company from year to year TO
further certificates OF undisputed proprietorship.
ART. s. Whenever the requisite amount of
money or labor. rs 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 be relocated
bv any other party or parties; prOridea, 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. 6. All claims heretofore located under
the District laws, not complying with the provis-
ions of these laws shall be considered abandoned
after ,he 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. l. The regularly elected County Rccor-
der shall serve rs 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 a 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 cit-
sens of Township No. 10. Placer county, at Val.
ley View, Tuesday, August 2ls, 1866.
W. ii. SMYTH, Chairman.
A BIckNELL, Secretary.
Mining Laws OF Township. No.. @, Placer
County.
Article L. This District shall be known and
designated as Township No. Quartz Mining Dis
trct, and the boundaries shall be those Of the
township.
Art. !. The jurisdiction of the following laws
! shall extend to and define the rights and prv-
legcs of tn SC who may locate claims upon veins
or lodes of quartz or other rock containing gold,
silver, cinnabar, or copper, within this district
Art. 3. Any citizen or qualified person shall be
entitled to locate or own by 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 eet or less shall include all dips spurs angles
and variations of the main lode, together with the
crossing parallel veins or ledes within twenty
feet of the sama upon both sides; provided that
the dip of any parallel vein or lode, so included
follows the dip of the main vein or lode, Any
inIn crio
may claim at right angles frsm the main lode,
and wholly upon the one or partly upon both side,
two hundred feet of surface ground iorconvenient-
ly working the mine; but such claim of surface
ground shall not include others than the vein or
lode provided fer in this article, nor prevent oh :
cr parties from working such vein OF lode.
Art 4. The discovercr OF a vein or lode shall
be entitled to locate two hundred feet in ddition
to the rights and privileges accorded to others by
these laws.
Art. 5. Any person claiming more than two
hundred feet in the same lode, except as provided
for in Article A. and except by actual, bona fde
purchase, shall be considered rs abandoning all
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 To-
cation on the same vein or lode.
Art 6. Upon the location of claim or claims
| a notice shall be posted upon the lodes which
shall clearly have written the name or names OF
the locators, the general direction OF the vein or
lode, the surface ground. if located upon ono or
10th sides OF the main vein or lode
Art. l. A copy of the notice provided for in
Article shall be recorded in the Book of Records
in this district, within ten days after being posted
on the vein or lode. The record shall also state
the boundaries of the claim, its locality in the
District and that the claim is first, second, ect
nortbcrly or southerly. eastery or westerly, from
the first location on the same vein or lode; but
no record shall be made OF aclaim containing
| more than three thousand feet OF the lode.