Arizona silver belt., 1894-07-21
SENATE B,LL No. Isls.

senator SteWartS Dlll to amend Une mining laws, which passed the Senate June 10th, provides Sec, sss4) that;
 'On each lode claim located after the tenth day of May, eighteen hun dred and seventy-two, and until pay ment of the purchase money and cer- tiflcate of entry has been issued there for, not less than one hundred dollars worth of labor shall be performed or Improvements made during each year. On all lode claims located prior to the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, ten dollars worth of labor shall be performed or improve ments made during each yenr for each one hundred feet in 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, fifty dollars worth of labor shall be performed or improve ments made during each year until payment of the purchase money and a certificate of entry shall be issued ther- for. But where several adjoining lode claims, not exceeding five, are owned or held by the same person, associa- tion, or corporation, and the sum of Ave hundred dollars or more is ex- pended in any one year in good faith for the development of all of the claims so owned or held, not exceeding five, there shall be no requirement. for sepa- rate labor or Improvements to be per formed or made on the several claims Sc owned or held during such year. The year within which the annual la Dor or Improvements required to be performed or made by this section shall commence at twelve o'clock mer- idian on the first day of October of each year:
 PROVIDED, That upon claims loca- ted previous to the first day of March in any year the annual labor or i'm provements shall be performed or made on such claims for that year prior to twelve o'clock meridian of the first day of October next succeeding; and upon claims located after the last day of February and prior to twelve o'clock meridian of the first day of October in any year the annual labor or Improvements required shall be performed or made within one year from twelve o'clock meridian of the first day of the succeeding October;
 And provided further, That only .one-half of the annual labor or i'm proyements required by this Act shall be necessary to be performed or made prior to twelve o'clock meridian of the fl st day of October, in the year eight cen hundred and ninety-fve, but after the first day of October, Tn the year eighteen hundred and ninety-hve, the f,full em0unt Cf labor or Improvements required by this Act shalf he performed or made upon such claims as in all other cases during each year prior to | twelve o'clock meridian of the first day of October. In case the first day of October falls on Sunday or any hol- iday the following secular day shall be construed as the first day of Octo- Der within the meaning of this Act When the lasor repaired by this Act shall have been performed or the inn provements made an affidavit may be filed within thirty days after the time limited for performing such labor. or making such Improvements with the recorder of deeds of the county in which the claim or mine is situated, particularly describing the labor per formed and Improvements made, and the value thereof, which affidavit shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated. And upon 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 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 loca- tors, their heirs, assigns, or legal rep resentatives, do notresume work upon the claim after such failure and before such relocation, and condnue the same with reasonable diligence until the re- quired amount of labor shall have been performed or Improvements made; but no relocation of a claim by a person who has already located such claim and failed to comply with the conditions of this Act in performing work or making improvements shall be valid prior to such resumption and continuance of work upon such claim"
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