The record-union., 1898-01-29

OTTAWA, Jan. 2S.-After careful con-
sideration and with the advice of VIM.
Cgiivie, the Canadian authority on the
Yukon country, the Department or the
Interior has decided upon the legal con-
ditions which are to govern placer min
ing in the Yukon. The regulations in
substance are as follows:
Free miner shall mean male or fe-
male over the age of Is, but not under
that age, or joint stock company, named
in, and lawfully possessed OF, Vaild ex-
isting free miners certificates and no
other.
A free miners certificate shall not be
transferable. This certificate may be
granted for one year to run from the
date thereof or from the date of eXpira-
ton of the applicants then existing GER
tificate, upon the payment thereon or the
sum of SO unless the certificate is to be
issued in favor of a joint stock COM
pany. in which case the fee shall be sou;
for a company having a mammal cap
ital exceeding 100000, the fee shall be
S100. Only one person or joint stock
company shall be named in certificate.
i
holder the privilege of fishing and shoot
ing subject to provisions of law; the
privilege of cutting timber for actual
necessities; for the exclusive use OF the
miner himself, but such permission shall
not extend to timber which may nave
been granted to other persons or corpor-
ationS.
Certificates may be obtained by appLl-
cants in person at the Department OF the
Interior, Ottawa, or from the agents OF
Dominion lands at Winnipeg, Man )
Calgary, Edmonton, Prince Albert, IN
the Northwest Territory; Kamloops and
New Westminster. B. c.; at Dawson IN
the Yukon district, also from the agents
of the Government at Vancouver ana
Victoria. B. c.
No person or joint stock company VIII
be recognized as having any right or in
terest in or to any claim unless he or 1t
and every person in his or its employ
ment shall have a free miners ceru-
ficate unexpired. And, on the expiration
of a free miners certificate, the owner
thereof shall absolutely forfeit all his
rights and interest unless he shall, on or
before the day following the expiration
Of such certificate obtain new free
miners certificate. Nevertheless,
should any co-owner fail to keep up his
free miners certificate, such failure
shall not cause a forfeiture or act as an
abandonment of the claim; but the in
terest of such co-owner, pro rata, ac-
cording to their former interests so pro-
vided, nevertheless. that shareholder
In a Joint stock company need not be a
free miner.
Every free miner shall during the
continuance of his certificate have the
right to enter. locate. prospect and mine
for gold and other minerals upon any
lands in the Yukon district. whether
vested in the crown or otherwise, except
upon Government reservations and land
lawfully occupied A creek, gulch. river
or hill claim shall not exceed 30 feet
IN length in the general direction of the
stream or ravine on which ii fronts, and
shall not he more than 600 feet in
width.
Every alternate ten claims shall be
reserved for the Government or can
ada; that is to say, when claim Il
located, the discoverer's claim and
nine additional claims adjoining each
other and numbered consecutiveiy VIII
be open for registration. Then the
next ten claims Of 2o0 feet each viii be
resrvel for the Government. and so on.
The penalty for trespaSsing upon d
claim reserved for the crown shall pe
immediate cancellation of an entry or
entries hich the persons trespassing
may have obtained, whether by orig
inal entry or purchase, for mining
claim. and the refusal of the accept
ance of any application which the per
son trespassing may at any time make
for claim.
If any free miner or party of free
miners discover a new mine, and such
discovery shall be established TO III.
satisfaction of the Mining Recorder,
creek, river or hill claims OF the fol-
lowing size shall be allowed:
To one discoverer one claim, ooO
feet In length; TO party Of two discov-
erers, two claims. amounting to l,oUJ
feet in length; each member of a party
beyond two in number a claim of the
ordinary size only.
A claim shall be recorded with the
Mining Recorder In whose district ii is
situated within the ten days after the
location thereof. The entry shall not
be granted for claim which has nor
been staked by the applicant in per-
son in the manner specified IN these
regulations.
An entIy fee of S15 shall be charged
the irst year, and an annual fee of SlD
for each of the following years. \
royalty of 10 per cent. on the gold
mined shall be levied and collected
on the gross output OF each claim. The
sum Of s., 800 shall be deducted from
the gross annual output OF a claim
when estimating the amount upon
which royalty is TO be calculated. bur
this exemption shall not be allowed
unless the royalty is paid at a banking
Office or 10 the Gold Commissioner or
Mining Recorder.
Regulations have also been adopted
for the issues Of leases to persons CT
companies who have obtained n free
miners certificate 10 dredge for min
erals cther than coal in the submerged
beds or bars of rivers in the provls-
ional district of Yukon. in the North
west Territory. They provide that: