The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-03-26
Bald Mountain District Laws.
COUNTY OF WHITE PIsg, STATE OF
NrYLnI Inlr % 1850

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company of miners met at Bald Mountain
on the above day, for the purpose Of forming
district. The meeting was called TO order,
| and j. IL. Foreman was appointed President.
motion was made and carried that E. II.
! Fairchild act as Secretary. A motion was
made and carried, that this district be known
| us Bald Mountain District, and bounded
as follows: On the east by the Ruby and
Hamilton telegraph line; on the west, by the
! ellison road, and Six miles northerly and six
miles southerly from the Genie ledge. ....
motion was made aud carried that J. II.
Foreman be elected Recorder of Bald Noun.
tain for term of twelve months, OF until bis
successor is qualified.
The following bylaws were presented and
approved:
Article /. The Recorder shall be allowed
fifty cents per maine for recording all notices.
Article 2. When u claim is located and the
proper notice is put on it, there shall be al
lowed ten days to file notice for record, and
forty days additional time within which peri
cd the proper amount of work must be done
on the ledge or ground claimed.
Article 3. Each claimant shall be entitled
10 hold by location two hundred feet on any
ledge in the district, with all the dips, spurs,
angles and variations, with all the minerals
and ores therein contained.
Article 4. The locator Of any lead, lode or
ledge in the district, shall be entitled TO hold
hundred feet, with all the mineral aud other
valuables therein contained, whether parallel
ledges or deposits; the dscoverer Of any new
ledge being entitled TO one claim for discoy.
cry.
Article 8. There shall be excavnted from
each claim of two hundred feet five cubic
feet Of rock, or thirty-iye feet of loose earth,
| for the assessment work, which shall hold the
claim for one year.
/ Article 6. Any claims having the necessary
| amount OF work done on it, rs specified in
the previous article, shall have the same sur
vcyed and the work recorded within ten days
after said work is done, and the Recorder
| shall receive two dollars for his services for
surveying and recording the same.
Article z. There shall be monument
three feet high on each company's claim
where it Is located, and ono three feet high
where the assessment work is done.
Article 4. Work done upon any portion Of
u location shall be deemed as having been
done for the benefit Of the whole Of said To-
cation, except i'll cases as stated hereinafter.
Article .. In cases whcro portion OF the
company refuse TO do tho necessary amount of
work TO hold their clnims, after being notified
by placing written notice on the Recorder 3
Office for twenty days, and the other portion
of the company wish 20 work enough TO hold
their portion Of said claims, they shall give
notice in writing Of their intention TO the Re
they wish to hold, and the balance Of said
claim shall be subject to relocation If the laws
are not complied with.
; Article 10. 1t shall be the duty Of the Re.
} corder to keep u suitable set Of books, n full
and truthful record of the proceedings Of all
! meetings, and TO place OIL record all claims or
notices brought 10 him for record. IL shall
be the duty of the Recorder to keep his books
open at ali times for the inspection 81 the
} public. II shall be the duty OF the Recorder
to deliver 10 his successor in Office all books,
papers &c. belonging to or pertaining TO his
Office. at. s..,,...
Article II. All examinations Of the records
must bc made in the full presence Of the lie
corder or his deputy.
Article l2. Notice of claim or location o
/ mining ground, by any individual or by .
company, on file in the Recorder office, ahal
be deemed equivalent 10 record of the same
Article 10. The Recorder shall have the
privilege of absenting himself from the dis
, trict, but shall have deputy to attend to his
!, business during his absence; and in case o.
, resignation, removal or death Of the Recorder
l the deputy shall Immediately give ten days
notice, by placing written notices in three
. conspicuous places in the district, that M
0 election will be held TO elect Recorder
r stating time and place; when majority Of thu
: miners present shall elect to fill the vacnn
Z cy for the unoNpircd term, and until sucl
: officer be qualified the deputy shall act as Ro
e cOrdcr. ....-...
, Article "A. The Recorder shall 30 allowed
Y fifty cents per name for every name on an ab
slract Of record furnished by him.
r Article 10. These laws cannot DO amend
. ed. altered or repealed, for ono year.
4 Resolved, That n copy Of these laws b
published in the Elko Independent and In
: land Empire.
d Tho meeting adjourned
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