The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-04-25
DISTRICT MINING Laws
VI white Pine Mining District,
Adopted April Is. Iea5.

VIC osaee Oh Nevada, on the 18th day
April, 1885, the following was pro-
posed as the mining laws of said dis.
trict, and being, on motion, read by
sections and submitted TO q vote
thereat, were duly adopted at said
meeting by the miners assembled at
the time and place aforesaid:
SECTION l. This district shall be
twelve miles square, bounded as fol-
lows Commencing at The Six-mile
House, northwesterly from Hamilton,
and running thence due east six miles:
thence due south twelve mile; thence
due west twelve miles; thence due
north twelve miles; thence due east
SIX miles, To the place of beginning
prue meridian).
SEC. z. The United States Mining
Laws are hereby adopted in full az
the laws OF this district.
SEC. 3. The annual meeting for the
election OF Mining Recorder and for
the transaction OF such other business
AS may be necessary, shall take place
at o o'clock P. NJ. on the third Satur-
day of April of each year. The Re-
corder shall give ten days notice OF
the time and place OF such meeting.
SEC. 4. The Recorder shall have a
competent deputy 10 attend to his
business during his absence from the
district. In case OF death or resigna-
ton the deputy shall give ten days
notice that an election will be held,
when maj ority OF the quail fed cleo
tors present shall elect a Recorder to
fill the vacancy for the unexpired
term. In case there Is no deputy,
five qualified miners shall issue call
for meeting OF the miners TO fill the
vacancy.
SEC. 8. No person shall have the
privilege Of participating IN any meet
ing except bona tide miners of tho
district, and no person shall be con-
sidered a miner unless be is an owner
IN claim, recorded and worked ac-
cording TO law.
SEC. D. All examinations of the rec
ords shall be made IN presence OF the
Recorder or his deputy. The books
shall be kept during business hours
in suitable place, convenient Of
access.
SEC. !. Notice OF claim or loca ion
Of mining ground on file in The Ise-
corder's ofiico shall TOO deemed equiv
alent 10 record Of the same.
SEC. :. All locations snail be made
bv y written notice, posted on The
initial point, aud within thirty days
from the daie OF posting said not ce,
the owner or owners II said claim
snail have the boundaries OF the To-
Gated property deiued by suitable
stakes placed ut each corner OF the
location. marked with the name
oil the claim and the number OF the
stake, commencing at tho northeast
corner and numbering With the sun.
The owner or owners of SUCH location
shall furnish Two written notices 10
the Recorder, who shall file one aud
forward immediately one copy to the
County Recorder. The Recorder shall
collect Two dollars at the time of filing
the notice of such location. aud shall
forward one dollar TO the County Re-
corder With the copy furnished by
said owner or owners. 4 failure 10
comply with the provisions OF this
Section shall be deemed an abandon
ment of said location, and II shall be
subjset to relocation the same as
though no previous location had been
made.
SEC. 9. The owners of any location
having compiled with that part Of
Section B OF the United States Mining
Laws, precrIbing the amount of work
necessary to hold possession of a
mining claim, may make affidavit be-
fore Notary Public or Justice OF the
Peace that the law has been complied
with, and shall file such affidavit for
record on the books of the District
Mining Recorder. The fee for max
ing such record shall not exceed one
dollar. But If such expenditure, as
provided in Section 5, u. ). Mining
Laws, is susceptible OF proof or self
evident, the record Of the same is not
mandatory.
SEC. 10. Every location made pre-
vious to the 18th day OF April. 1855,
for which United States patent has
not been applied for, shall before the
he first day of January, 1886, file
with the District Recorder a complete
description OF such location. In The
event of the owner OF such location
heretofore made having In his pos
session a copy that had previously
been filed for record, which record
was destroyed by the late burning OF
the Court House, such filed notice
shall be recorded at fifty cents, and