Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-07-27
A BILL
To Amend Chapter Six of Title Thirty Two of the Revised Statutes Rela- ting to Mineral Lands and Mining Resources.

of Representatives of the United State of America in Congress assembled, Tha section twenty-three hundred and nine teen of the Revised Statutes be amende by adding thereto the following: "Bu no person shall acquire by location nor
 than fifteen hundred feet in length o
 the same vein, nor shall any person re
 locate claim which he has previousl,
 located"
 SEC ?. That section twenty-thre
 hundred and twenty-four of the Revised
 Statutes be amended so as to read:
 "SEc. 2324. The miners of each min
 ing district may make regulations, no
 in conflict with the laws of the United
 States, or with the laws of the State ol
 Territory in which the district is situa
 ted, governing the location, manner oi
 recording amount of work necessary tC hold possession of a mining claim, sub,
 ject to the following requirements: The
 location must be distinctly marked on
 the ground by posts or monuments so that its boundaries can be readily traced All records of mining claims hereafter made shall contain the name CT names
 of the locators. the date of the location,
 and such description Of the claim or
 claims located as will identify the claim.
 On each claim located after the tenth
 day of May, eighteen hundred and seven.
 ty-two, and until payment of the pur
 chase money and a certificate of entry
 has been issued therefor, not less than
 one hundred dollars worth of labor shall
 be performed 1or improvements made
 during each year. On all claims located
 prior to the tenth day of May, eighteen
 hundred and seventy-twc, ton dollars worth of laUor shall be performed or i'm prcvements made during each year for each one hundred feet iii length along the vein until payment of the purchase money and q certificate of entry has been issued therefore; and for each twen- ty acres of placer claims, and for each subdivision thereof less than twenty acres. twenty-five dollars worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year until payment of the purchase money and certificate of entry shall be issued there for. But where several adjoining claims, not exceeding five, whether the same be lode or placer claims, are owned or held by the same person, association, or cor poration, and the sum of five thousand dollars or more is expended in any one year in good faith for the development | of all of the claims so owned or held, l not exceeding five, there shall be no re | guirement for separate labor or improve | ments to be performed or made on the | several claims so owned or held during | such year. The year within which the | annual labor or improvement required | to be performed or made by this section shall commence at i2 o'clock meridian | on the first day of October of each year: Provided, That upon claims To- ,ated previous to the first day of March n any year the annual labor or improve nents shall be performed or made on such claim for that year prior to F o'clock meridian of the first day of Oc- ober next succeeding; and upon claims ocated after the last day Of February md prior to F o'clock meridian of the irst day of October in any year the an lual labor or improvements required i hall be performed or made prior to F o'clock meridian of the first day of the lext following October: And provided urther, That only one-half of the an lTal labor or Improvements required by his act shall be necessary to be per ormed or made prior to 12 o'clock meri- Iiau of the first day of October, in the -ear eighteen hundred and eighty nine. ,1 claims upon which the annual labor IT improvements were performed or made in the year eighteen hundred and tightly eight; but after the first day of Oc ober in the year eighteen hundred and ighty-nine; the full amount of labor IT improvements required by this act hall be performed or made upon such laims as in all cases during each year ,rior to l2 o'clock meridian of the first lay of October. In case the first day f October falls on Sunday or any holi- lay the following secular day shall be within the meaning of this act. When | ,ecn performed or the improvements made an affidavit shall be filed within hirty days after the time limited for DSEIOTnllnH SUCH lGUOT UT | baking such improvements with the recorder of tho mining district n which such claims are situated, and [ there be none then with the recorder f deeds in the county in which the laim or mine is situated, particularly the labor performed and i'm made, and the value there f, which affidavit shall be prima facie vidence of the facts therein stated. Ind upon failure to comply with these the claim or mino upon which such failure occurred shall be pen to relocation Tn the same manner as no location of the same had ever been made: Provided. That the original To- aters, their heirs, assigns, or legal re- ,resentatlves do not resume work upon he claim after such failure and before uch location, and continue the same with reasonable diligence until the equired amount of labor shall have ,een performed or improvements made. Jpon the failure of any one of several o-owners to contribute his proportion if the expenditures required hereby, the .o-owners who have performed the labor IT made the improvement may, at the aspiration of the year, give such delin- Iuent co-owner personal notice in writ ng CT notice by publication in the news paper published nearest the claim, for It least once a week for ninety days.and at the expiration of ninety days after juch notice in writing or by publication ;uch delinquent shall fail or refuse to contribute his proportion of the eXpend- ture required by this section his inter st in the claim shall become tho prop ,rty of his co-ownars who have made the ,equired expenditures. upon recording a copy of such notice, together with an affidavit showing personal service or as the case may be, of such notice with the recorder of the mining district in which such mining claim is situated, and if there be no such officer, -hen with the recorder of deeds of the county in which such mining claim is When iany person or com pany has developed and exposed lode, md expended one hundred dollars'worth |