Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-05
Mining Partners.

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 The law provides that upon the failure of any one of several co-Owners of a vein, lode or ledge which has not been entered for patent, to contribute his proportion of the expenditures necessary to hold the claim or claims so held in ownership in common, the co-owners who have performed the labor, or made the improvements as required by law, may, at the expiration of the year, give such delinquent co-Owner personal mo- tice in writing, or notice by publication in the newspaper published nearest the claim, for at least once a week for 90 Jays; and If, upon the expiration of 90 days after such notice in writing, or up- on the expiration of 1S0 days after the first newspaper publication of notice, the delinquent shall have failed to con- tribute his proportion to meet the ex- penditures or improvements, his interest in the claim by law passes to his CO., owners who have made the expenditures or improvements.
 The following forms are those which will be the proper ones to use in such cases:
 NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
 To-(names of all parties who have re- cord title to any portion of the mineL You are hereby notified that I have ex- pended ed--dOllars in labor and im- IsN the claim, as will appear by certificate filed ,1SS-, in the office of the Re l corder of said county tor district). in or to hold said premises under the prOvis- | ions of section 2324 Revised Statutes of | the United States, being the amount re- | quired to hold the same for the year end- | ing, lSS-. And if within ninety | days from the service of this notice tor | within ninety days after this notice by | publication, you fail or refuse to con- | tribute your proportion of such expend- | iture as cO-Owner, yOur interest in said ! claim will become the property of the l subscriber under said section 2324.
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 NOTE.-At the expiration of 1s0 days, | this notice should be recorded with the | affidavit of the newspaper publisher, that | the same was published for the period of | ninety days, together with the affidavit 1 (ErOm 4) of the party signing the notice | to the effect that one or more of the CO., owners named in the publish notice have not paid their share of the expenditure. ThIs completes the record little.
 AFFIDAVIT or FAILURE TO CONTRIBUTE.
 -of--, County of--,ss.
 --, being duly sworn, depOses and says, that for the year ending-, |lSS-, he expended at least--dollars |n labor and improvements upon the lode placer claim (here describe | he claim, to hold the same under the avs of the United States and of this district, Territory or State); that due e.Otice thereof was personally served .pon----, cO-Owners, on the ished in the as appears
 om the affidavit of the publisher there , c; and that--( (of the said) CO., wners have failed or refused to con- tribute their share of said expenditures within the time required by law.
 Subscribed and sworn to before me thIs Is-day of, 1SS-. -
 The party who contributes his propOr- tion of the required expenditures, can retain his interest in the mine If a party fails to contribute his proportion of the actual expenditures upon a min ing claim. the remedy must be sought elsewhere than iu the General Land Office.