Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-07-06
Mining LAWS of the Mokelumne Hill
Quartz Mining District.

Quartz Mining District.
| Pursuant to call published in the GALA
tvsRks CHRONICLE. meeting of the quartz
miners of Mokelumne Hill was held in the
court house building on Saturday June Sth,
| 1867. at j P. NJ. The meeting was organ
lied by the choice of DIR. James Hepburn as
The following preamble and laws were then
adopted. to wit:
Whereas the laws of the State of California,
and also of the United States recognize the
right of the miners of any district to make
their own laws for the holding and working
the mines in such district and whereas no
such laws have hitherto existed governing
the quartz mines in this vicinity. and bellev-
ing that the development thereof will be
promoted by making such laws, we therefore
| the members of this meeting, being interested
in quartz mining. do make and enact the
following, and pledge ourselves each to the
other that we will be governed thereby:
ARTICLE /. This district shall be known
as the Mokelumne Hill district, the boun-
dares of which shall be as follows, TO wit ::
Commencing on the Mokelumne river, at the
north-easterly boundary of the Middle Bar
district, thence along said boundary line to
southerly to the south easterly boundary
line of the Chilli Gulch District, thence along
said boundary line to Jackson's. ou the CAL
averas river, thence along the west bank of
said river to its junction with the Esperanxa
branch thence northwest to the Mokelumne
river, and thence along the easterly bank Of
said river to the place of beginning.
ART. 2. Each claimant shall be entitled to
hold by location two hundred (200) feet in
length on any quartz lode in this district.
with an additional two hundred feet to the
discoverer of the lode, with the right to fol-
low such vein to any depth. with all its
widths, dips, spurs, angles and variations,
together with reasonable quantity of sur
face for the convenient working of the same.
ART. 3. No person shall make more than
one location on the same lode and not more
than three thousand feet shall be taken in
any one claim by any association of persons.
| ART 4. The bounds and extent of all
claims shall be established and defined by
legible written notices. containing the names
of each and every claimant placed upon
trees or other objects sufficiently firm, on or
near the lode, a copy Of which notice to-
gether with description of the claim shall
| be recorded in the books of the district reg
| istry within fifteen days after the date Of
said notice. and all claims not located and
recorded in compliance with the provisions
of this article shall be forfeited and subject
| to relocation.
ART. 5. Within one month after the loca-
| tion of a claim. there shall be performed
| thereon one days work for each two hundred
feet in length, and every three months there
after one days work for each two hundred
feet in length, provided that when COM
| pany have sunk shaft or run q tunnel on u
| clam thirty feet, and said shaft or tfinncl
shall be open and in working condition, said
company shall be required to perform on
such claim only one days work for each two
hundred feet in length every six months !;
and all claims not worked in compliance with
the provisions of this article shall be forfeited
and subject to relocation.
ART. &. All persons having located claims
on any quartz lode in this district prior to
this date shall have fifteen days from this
date to post their notices Of location; after
which they shall be required to comply with
the provisions uf articles fourth and fifth,
and failure to comply with the provisions
of this article shall subject their claims TO
forfeiture and relocation.
| ART. 7. Recorder of this mining dis-
trict shall be chosen at this meeting to hold
Office for one year from the date of his cleo
ton, and until his successor is chosen. who
shall have the custody of the books, laws and
papers of this district. and shall keep suit
able book Tor records, and make full and
truthful record of all claims presented by
persons requesting the same, and for his feea
shall receive twenty-five cents for each two
hundred feet. 1t is provided however, that
all claims record d in the County Records
prior to this date, he shall record free OF
charge. The books of said Recorder shall at
all times be open to those who may wish to
examine them.
ART. 8. These laws may be amended Ia
the following manner to wit: ANY five per-
sons desiring an amendment may request the
Recorder in writing to call a meeting for such
purpose. .~sta,ing in their request the article
or articles they desire to have amended. to-
gether with the amendment they propose (;
and it shall be the duty Of fhe Recorder to
call a meeting for such purpose by posting
or publishing a notice for two weeks prior
to the time such meeting may be called. en-
bodying the substance Of said request ; and
any amendment so proposed at such meeting
which shall receive two thirds of all the
votes present shall be declared adopted, aud
shall become part Of these laws.
William II. Leavitt was then chosen Re-
corder of the district. The meeting theu
adjourned.
JAMES HEPBURN Chairman.
T. S. MITCHELL, Secretary.
Mok Hill June sth. 1867.