Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-02-27
4 New lining Bilr.

A bin TO amend chapter six, Of title
thirty-tW :, OF the Revised Statutes
relating TO mineral lands and mining
resources.
Bell enacted By the Senate and
House Of Representatives. of the
United States of America in Con-
gress assembled, That section twenty
three hundred. and twenty four Of the
Revised Statutes be amended SO as
to read:
$50. 2324 The miners OF each
mining district may make regulations
not in conflict with tho 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 follow
ing Requirements: The location must
toe distinctly marked on the ground
by posts or monuments 80 that it's
boundaries can be readily, traced.
All records Fof mining claims here
after made shall.conta ain the name or
names OF the locators, the date OF To-
cation, and such description OF the
claim or claims located by reference
to some natural object or. permanent
monument as will identify the claim
On each claim located after the tenth
day OF May, eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, and until paymen; OF
the purchase money and certificate Of
entry has been Issued therefor, not
less than one hundred dollars worth
OF labor shall be performed. or i'm
provements made, during each year.
On all claims located prior to the
tenth day of, May eighteen hundred
and ssventy-two, ten dollars worth of
labor shall be performed, or improve
nleDts made, during each year for
each one hundred feet in length
along the vein, until payment of the
purchase money and "a certificate of
entry has BEEN issued therefor; but
where such claims are held In com
mon such expenditure may be made
upon any one claim. That the period
within which the work required to
be done annually on mineral claims
| shall commence at twelve o'clock
meridian on the first day of January
succeeding, the date of location of
such claim. When the labor required
by this act shail have been performed
or improvements made, am affidavit
may be filed within thirty days after
the time limited for performing such
labor, or making. suoh Improvements,
with the recorder of deeds OF the
county in which the claim or mine is
situated, particularly describing the
labor performed and the improve,
ments made, and value thereof, which
affidavit shall be prima facie evidence
of the fact therein stated, and upon a
failure to comply with the conditions
OF this act in the performance of labor
or making OF improvements, the
claim or mine upon which such fail
ure occurred shall be open to reloca-
ton the same manner as if no loca
tion Of thesa had ever been made
Provided, That the original locators
their heirs, assigns, or legal represen-
tatives do not resume work upon the
claim after such failure and before
such relocation, and continue the
same with reasonable diligence until
the required amount OF labor shall
have been performed or improvements
made. Upon the failure OF any one
OF the several co owners TO con-
tribute his proportion OF the expen-
ditures required hereby, the CO.
owners who have performed 1.-THE labor
or made the improvements may, at
the expiration Of the year, give such