Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-04
The Stewart Miniag Bill.

OIaIuleS De allleHUeu Dy duulIS lHerG- | to the following:
 "But ID Ierson shall acquire, by | location or possession, more than one mining claim on the same vein, nor shall any person relocate claim which he has previously located"
 Sec. ,. That section twenty-three hundred and twenty-four of the Re vised Statutes be amended so as to read:
 "Sec. 2324. The miners of each mining district may make regulations, not in conflict with the laws of the United States, or with the laws of the State or Territory in which the dis trict is situated, governing the loca- ton, manner of recording amount of work necessary to hold possession of mining claim, subject to the following requirements: The location must be distinctly marked on the ground SO that its boundaries can be readily traced. All records of mining claims hereafter made shall contain the name or names of the locators, the date of the location, and such description of the claim o: claims located as will identify the claim. On each claim located after the tenth day Of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two un- til certificate of entry has been issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars worth of labor shall be per formed or improvements made during each year. On all claims located prior to the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, ten dollars worth of labor shall be performed or. | improvements made during each year, for each one hundred feet in length along the vein until certificate of entry has been issued therefor; and for each twenty acres of placer claims, anI each subdivision thereof, less than twenty acres, fifty dollars worth of labor shall be performed or improve ments made during each year until a certificate of entry shall be issued therefor The period within which the annual work required to be done by this section shall commence at twelve o'clock meridian on the first day of August of each year: Pro vide', IT at upon claims already To- cated previous to the first day of March in any year the annual work shall be performed on such claim for that year prior to twelve o'clock meridian of the first day of August next succeeding. And the time for performing annual work on claims heretofore located is hereby extended to the first day of August at twelve o'clock meridian. When the labor required by this sec ton shall have been performed or the improvements made, an affidavit shall
 be filed with the officer authorized to record deeds in the county in which
 the mine is situated, particularly de
 scribing the labor performed and i'm
 provements made, and the value there
 of, which affidavit shall be prima facie
 evidence of the facts therein stated
 And upon failure to comply with
 these conditions, the claim or mine
 upon which such failure occurred shall
 be open to relocation in the same man
 ner as if no location Of the same had
 ever been made: Provided, That the
 original locators, their heirs, assigns
 or legal representatives, do not resume
 work upon the claim after such failure
 and before such location, and continue
 the same with reasonable diligence
 until the required amount of labor shall have been performed or improve
 ments made. Upon the failure Of any
 one of several cO-owners to contribute
 his proportion of the expenditures re
 quired hereby, the co-owners who have performed the labor or made the i'm provement may, at the expiration O ] the year, given such delinquent co
 owner personal notice in writing ol
 noticeby publication in the newspapel
 published nearest the claim, for at leas
 once week for ninety days, and if a the expiration of ninety days aftel , such notice in writing or by publica ton, such delinquent shall fail or re , fuse to contribute his proportion o : the expenditure required by this sec ) ton, his interest in the claim shall be 3 come the property of his co-owner who have made the required expendi lures, and such co-owner may relocat' such individual interest in his owl name. When person or compan.
 has or may run tunnel for the pur
 poses of developing lode, owned b.
 said person or company, the money sc : expended in such tunnel shall be takel and considered as expended on sai' l lode, and such person or compan, ] shall not be required to perform labo t or make improvements on the surfac of said lode in order to hold the same. t Sec 3. That section twenty-thre . hundred and twenty-five of the Revise Statutes be amended by adding there
 to the following:
 "But no more than three thOusan ! feet in length along the vein of claim D located prior to the tenth day of May s eighteen hundred and seventy-two, an not more than one claim located afte f said date shall be included in the sam e application for a patent, and not nor 5 than one hundred and sixty acres ( e placer ground shall be included in tn
 same application for patent"
 Sec. 4. That section twenty-thre s hundred and thirty-fve of the Revise Il Statutes be amended so as to read: n "Sec 2335. All atfidavits require b to be made under this chapter may b $ verified before any officer authorize o to administer oaths in any State (
 Territory of the United States or in th
 District of Columbia, and all testimon
 and proofs may be taken before an such officer, and, when duly eertifie n by the officer taking the same, sha O have the same force and effect as y taken before the register and receive n of the land office. In cases of conte e as to the mineral or agricultur . character of land, the testimony an v nrnnfs lnoN he tal-n,, 11ndnr S11ch rnn1