Arizona silver belt., 1889-08-03
BILL
To Amend Chapter Six of Title Thirty.Two of the Revised Statutes Relating te MiR. erai Lands and Mining Resources.

House of Representatives of the United
 States of America in Congress assem-
 bled, That section twentythree hun
 dred and nineteen of the Revised
 Statutes be amended by adding there
 to the following: But no person shall
 acquire by location more than fifteen
 hundred feet in length on the same
 vein, nor shall any person relocate a
 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 min
 ing 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 district is situ-
 ated, governing the location, manner
 of recording amount of work necessary
 to hold possession of a mining claim,
 subject 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 inning claims
 hereafter made shall contain the name
 or 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 To- catea after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seYenty.two, and until payment of the purchase
 money and a certificate of entry has been isSued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year. On ali claims lo, cated prior to the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seyenty-twe. ten dellarS worth of labor shall be performed CT Improvements made dur iug each year for each one hundred feet Tn length along the vein until payment of the purchase money and certificate of entry has been issued therefor; and for each twenty acres of placer claims, and for each subdivision thereof less than twenty acres, twen- ty-tiye dollars worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made dur ing each year until payment of the purchase money and certificate of entry shall be issued therefor. But where several adjoining claims not exceeding five. whether the same be lode or placer claims, are owred CT held by the same person, association, or corporation, and the sum of five thousand dollars or more Is expended in any one year in good faith fer the development of all of the claims so owned or held, not exceeding five, there shall be no requirement for sep arate labor or improvements 10 be performed or made on the several claims go owned or held during such year. Ibe year within which the an uual labor or improvement required 10 be performed or made by thls sec. ton shall commence at l2 o'clock me ridian on the first day of October of each year: Provided, That upon claims located previous to the first day of March in any year the annual labor or improvements sball be performed or made on such claim for that year prior to l2 o'clock meridian of the first day of October next succeeding; and upon claims located after tue last day of February and prior to F Q clock meridian of the first day of October in any year the annual labor or improve. ments required shall be performed or made prior to F o'clock meridian of the first day of the next following Oc- tober: And provided further, That only cue half of the annual labor or required by this act shall be necessary 10 be performed or made prior to i2 o'clock meridian of the first day of October, Tn the, year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, on claims upon which the annual labor or improvements were performed or made Tn the year eighteen hundred and eighty eight, but after the first day of October in the year eighteen hundred and elghty-nine, the full amount of labor or improvements re- luired by this act shall be performed or made upon such claims as in all cases during each year prior to F o'clock meridian of the first day of October. In case the first day of 0c- tober falls on Sunday or any holiday, the following secular day shall be con strued as the first day of October within the meaning of this act. When the labor required by thls act shall have been performed or the improve ments made, an affidavit shall be filed within thirty days after the tune liin- tied for performing such labor or such improvements, with the recorder of the mining districts in which such claims are situated, and if there be none then with the recorder