Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-04-06
SOME NEW LAWS.
Acts Of the 2Sth Assembly OF Interest to
the People.

An act entitled an act relating to the
locating and relocating of mining claims,
and for other purposes.
Section THAT the locator or locators
OF any mining claim, located after this act
shall take effect, shall within ninety days
from the date of taking possession of the
same, sink discovery shaft upon such
claim to depth of at least ten feet from
the lowest part of the rim OF such shaft at
the surface, exposing mineral in place, or
shall drive a tunnel, adit, or oren cut
upon such claim to at least ten feet below
the surface exposing mineral in place.
Sec. 2.-The surface boundaries of all
mining claims hereafter located shall be
marked by four substantial posts or four
substantial monuments OF stone set at
each corner of such claim. Such posts or
monuments of stone shall each be plainly
marked so as to indicate the direction of
such claim from each monument of stone
or posts.
Sec. 3.-The relocation OF any mining
gro md which is subject to relocation
suall be made in the same way as an
original location is required by law to be
made, except the relocation may either
sink new shaft upon the ground relo-
lated to the depth OF at least ten feet
from the lowest part of the rim of such
shaft at the surface, exposing mineral in
place, or drive a new tunnel, adit, or open
ut upon such ground at least ten feet be-
low the surface, exposing mineral In place,
or the relocator may sink the original dis
covery shaft ten feet deeper than it is at
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al tunnel, adit, or open cut upon such
claim ten feet further.
Sec. 4.-If at any time the owner of any
mining claim heretofore or hereafter To-
Gated, or his assigns, shall apprehend
that the original notice of location is de-
fective, erroneous or the requirement of
law has not been complied with before
Hing; or shall be DESTROYS ofchanginghi
surface boundaries; or to take in any part
Of an overlapping claim which has been
abandoned or in case the original notice
of location was made prior to the passage
Of this act and the owner shall be desir-
GUS OF obtaining the benefits of this act,
such owner may file in the office where
notices OF locations are by law required to
be filed an amended or additional notice
Of location, subject to the provisions Of
this act provided, that such additional or
amended notice of location does not in
terfere with the existing right Of others at
tho time of filing such notice; and no
such amended or additional location, or
record thereof, shall preclude the claimant
or his assigns from proving any such title
IA he or they may have held under the
previous location.
Sec. o.-Any person who shall take
down, remove, alter or destroy any stake,
post, monument or notice of location upon
any mining claim, without the consent of
the owner or owners thereof, shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and on
conviction shall be punished by fine
not exceeding 800 or by Imprisonment
in the county Jail not exceeding six
months, or by both such fine and i'm
prisonment.
Sec. Gin addition to the provision of
aw now in force in respect to the aban-
lonment of mining claims, they may be
abandoned in the following manner: The
,wner or owners of any mining claim
Wishing to abandon the same may sign
md acknowledge in the same manner
provided by law for the acknowledgement
# deeds and file for record in the Office of
he county recorder, certificate describ-
ng the same, stating when and by whom
coated, the name of the claim, the book
nd page where the notice OF location of
UGH claim is recorded, that he or they
i've up and abandon such claim, and that
he same is open and subject to reloca-
ion. Upon the filing of such certificate
he mining claim therein described shall
9 considered abandoned and opened to
slocation as if the same had never been
,cated, and the owner or owners thereof
,rever estopped from claiming any right
r interest therein under the location
,entloned in said certificate; provided,
nat this provision for abandonment shall
OF apply to any claim or location UPON
hich any mortgage lien or other incum-
rance exists.
Sec. when the owner or owners 3
any mining claim or claims now located
which may hereafter be located, upon /
hich there shall exist any mortgage,