The San Francisco call., 1897-01-21


claim, as provided for in section of this act,
the relocator shall mark his relocation on the
ground so that its boundaries can be readily
traced and shall file in the Office of the County
Recorder OF the county wherein said m1nln g
claim is situated a certificate of relocation,
which said certificate shall state the facts re-
quired to be stated in the posted notice pro-
yided for by section of this act, and in add-
ton thereto shall contain a description OF the
claim as relocated, defining its exterior boun-
daries as they are marked upon the ground
and such additional description by reference
to some natural object or permanent monu-
ment as win identity the claim.
s Said certificate shall be signed by or on
behalf OF the relocator or reloeators and dated
and when filed for record shall be deemed and
considered as prima facie evidence OF the facts
therein recited, provided, however, that said
certificate shall not be evidence of the fact
that the prior locator had either forfeited or
abandoned his location, but the burden OF
proof establishing such abandonment or for
teiture shall rest upon the relocator or those
claiming under him.
Sec. 8. The discoverer of placers or other
forms of deposit subject to location and appro-
prlation under mining laws applicable TO
placers shall locate his claim in the following
manner ~ By the erection of substantial
monument or mound OF rocks within the Inn
its OF the ground claimed and posting thereon
notice of location containing the name OF
the locator, the date of location. the number
OF acres claimed and the name OF the claim.
(2l By marking the location of the ground so
that its boundaries can be readily traced
Such notice shall not be recorded. Within
twenty days from the date OF completing said
location the locator shall file with the Re-
corder OF the county in which such claim IS
situated certificate of location, which should
be dated and signed by or on behalf or the
locator or locators, and shall contain: % The
name OF the claim; (2l the name of the locator
or locators; (3) the date of the discovery
and posting of the notice hereinbefore pro-
vided for which shall be considered the date
OF the location; ~ description OF the claim
hy Pafn 10 fAdi eli nf
ii the location is made In conformity with the
public surveys. Otherwise description with
reference 10 some natural object or permane mt
monuments as will identify the claim.
Where such claim is located by legal subdi-
visions of the public surveys such location
shall, notwithstanding that fact, be marked
by the locator upon the ground the same as
other locations.
Such certificate of location when filed for
record shall be deemed and considered prima
facie evidence of the facts therein recited. A
copy of such certificate certified by the County
Recorder shall be admitted in evidence in all
actions or proceedings with the same effect as
the original.
Sec. z. Abandoned or forfeited placer
or other claims usually located under the laws
applicable to placers shall be relocated sub
stantially in the same manner rs is provided
for the relocation of lodes vein claims i'll Sec
tons and of this act
Sec. 8. If at any time the owner of any min
ing claim heretofore or hereafter located shall
apprehend that his ocation is detective or er-
roneous or that the requirements of the law
have not been complied with, or where he
may desire to change his surface boundaries
so as to include land other than that en-
braced within his boundaries as originally
located or marked, or in case the original
notice of location WAS made prior to the pas
sage OF this act and the owner shall be de-
sirous OF obtaining the benefits OF this act
such owner may change his boundaries and
correct or amend his location By remarking
the same and thereupon may file with the
County Recorder an amended or additional
certificate of location which in the absence OF
any prior or intervening rights shall relate
back to the original location.
Sec. g. The locator OF a mill site, claim or
location shall, within thirty days from the
date OF his location, record his location in the
office OF the County Recorder OF the county in
certificate, which must be similar in all
respects to the one posted on the location.
Said notice when recorded shall be prima facie
evidence of the facts therein stated.
Sec. 10. The locator of a mill site location
shall locate his claim by posting notice OF
location thereon, which must contain Q) the
name OF the locator or locators; (2) the name
of the vein or lode claim or mine OF which he
is the proprietor or the name OF the quartz
mill or reduction works of which he Is the
owner; (3) the date OF the location; az the
number OF acres claimed; (5) description OF
the claim by such reference to natural oblects
or permanent monument as shall identity the
claim or mill site; and by marking the bound
aries OF his claim in the same manner as pro-
Vloeu IN tnls hCC lot the mdTKluR VI tHe
boundaries OF placer mining claim, SO lar as
the same may be applicable thereto.
Sec. IL. Within sixty days after the perform
ance OF labor or making of improvements re-
quired by law to be annually performed or made
upon any mining claim, the person in whose
behalf such labor was performed, or improve
ments made, or some one in his behalf shall
make and record in the Office of the County
Recorder in which such mining claim Is stu
ated, an affidavit setting forth the amount OF
money expended, or value OF labor or I'M.
provements made, or both, the character OF
expenditures or Labor or Improvements, q de-
scription OF the claim or part OF the claim
affected by such expenditures, or labor or i'm
proveTents, for what year, and the name OF
expense the same was made or performed.
Such affidavit, or copy thereof, duly certified
by the County Recorder, shall be prtma fac1e
evidence of the performance of such labor
or the making of such Improvements, or both.
Sec. IL. No record of a mining claim or MILL
site made after the passage of this act in the
records OF any mining district shall be valid.
sites and other notices heretofore recorded In
such district records, If such notices conform
to the local rules and regulations in force In
such district are hereby declared valid. Withln
thirty days after the passage of this act the
district Recorder or custodian of the records
OF the several mining districts IL this state
shall tran smit to the County Recorders OF the
respective counties wherein the respective
districts are situated all the records OF SAID
respective districts, and thenceforward such
County Recorder shall be deemed and consld-
cred the legal custodian OF such records
Thereafter copies of such records cert1f1ed by
the County Recorder may be received in evi-
Sec. 13. This act shall take effect and be In
force sixty DAYS after its passage.