Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-21
MINING BYLAWS.
MINING DISTRICT OF
Soledad, Los Angeles county, State of Cali
fornia, March 9th, 1876.

an this day, at a meeting held by the mi
~ ners OF the Soledad Mining District, said
county and State, at the house of Samuel
Harper, in said district, and in compliance
with notice calling for said meeting by $.
Harper, Recorder, and posted for thirty days,
George ID. Rush was appointed President and
Chairman.
The meeting was then called to order, and
NJ. j. Reilly was nominated as Secretary.
The motion put before the IN Getting that NJ ].
Reilly act as Secretary, seconded and carried
unanimously.
The following boundaries and bylaws of
the Soledad Mining District were then
adopted:
This District shall be known as the Soledad
Mining District, and bounded as follows:
commencing at point two miles Southwest
from the house of Samuel Harper in said So
ledad Mining District, thence from said point
twelve miles running due East To a point
thence due North ten miles to a point, thence
due West twelve miles TO point, and thence
ten miles South to the place of commence
ment.
SECTION |. All claims shall conform to the
mining act of May 10th, 1872 entitled: An Act
to promote the development of the mining
resources of the United States.
Sec 2. All claims shall be recorded within
twenty days after posting notice on the same.
Sec 3. Any person locating claim shall be
required to go with the Recorder of the District
on the ground, show the boundaries, and if
found TO be not claimed and subject to loca-
tion, the Recorder shall then take copy of
UHe nOIlce posted on Sucn claim ana record
the same, and shall be required to give to the
claimant of said claim a certified abstract
from the records ofsuch claim, for which the
Recorder shall receive a fee of five dollars (S5l
for each claim recorded.
Sec 4. Ali deeds, bills of sale and transfers
shall be recorded in the records Of the district,
for which the Recorder shall receive the sum
of two dollars and fifty cents $3.50 for each
deed, bill of sale or transfer.
Sec ). The Recorder shall be required to
keep fair record of all mining claims in a
well bound book.
Sec 6. The Recorder shall be required to
keep all books appertaining to his office in a
safe place, and allow interested persons to eX-
anime them in his presence, and not other
wise.
Sec.7. There shall be a Recorder elected an
nually, on the 9th day of March ,ofwhich elec.
ton ten days notice shall be given by post
ing notice in three fthe most public places
in the district
Sec s. The Recorder shall have power to ap-
point a Deputy, whose acts shall be as legal
as of the Recorder elected.
Sec. 8. All persons locating ground for min
ing purposes shall be required to expend one
hundred dollars worth OF work on each claim,
within one year from the date oflocation, and
each succeeding year until patent shall have
been obtained.
Sec. 10. All claims not recorded within
twenty days after posting notice on the same
shall be subject to relocation.
Sec.1l. All expenditures made on the claim,
such as recording, surveying by the Deputy
structing bitches, or any other necessary i'm
provement for such claim shall be considered
as work done on the claim.
Sec. II. All placer claims shall consist of
twenty acres each; but an association of eight
persons can jointly locate one hundred and
sixty acres, making eight claims in all and
can hold the same as one mining company
without segregating the same.
Sec. l3 All VEN or lode claims shall consist
Of fifteen hundred linear feet along the course
thereof, and three hundred feet on each side
of the center OF the vein or lode; and no loca-
ton whatever the number of persons making
it,can exceed fifteen hundred linear feet along
the course thereof.
Sec IA. All locations shall be distinctly
marked ON the ground, so that their bounda-
ries can be readily traced.
Sec l5. All records of mining claims shall
contain the name or names OF the locators,
the date of the location and such description
OF the claim or claims located, by reference to
some natural object or permanent monument
as will identify the claim.
Sec. l6. Upon the failure of any one of sew
eral co-owneIs to contribute his proportion OF
the expenditures required by this act, the CO.
owners who have performed the labor or
made the Improvements may. at the eXpira-
ti0n of the year, give such delinquent CO.
owner personal notice in writing or by publi-
cation in the newspaper published nearest
the claim, for at least once q week for ninety
days; and If at the expiration of ninety DAYS
after such notice in writingor by publication,
such delinquent should fail or refuse to con-
tribute his proportion to comply with this act
his interest in the claim shall become the
property of his co-owners,who have made the
required expenditures.
See. II. No lode claim can be recorded until
after the discovery of vein or lode within the
limits of the ground claimed.
Sec. is. These laws shall go into effect from
and after this date, and can only be amended
and altered by giving thirty days notice by
posters In three of the most public places i'll
the district.
A motion being made that Recorder be
ala0fQ6 the anSninO IL moved
and seconded that Samuel Harper, the former
Recorder, be elected to the office of Recorder
for the ensuing year.
Carried unanimously.
There being no more business before the
meeting, /, the Recorder, Samuel Harper,
hereby appoint George ID. Rush as Deputy
Recorder for this district.
SAMUEL HARPER,
Recorder Soledad District.
Motion made and seconded to adjourn the
meeting Carried.
GEORGE ID. RUSH, President.
M, j. REILLY, Secretary. marlS-tf