Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-08
MEXICAN MINING LAW
REQUIRES A RESURVEY
Important Changes in Legal Re-
quirements in Southern Re-
public Are Misunderstood

r. L. Hogue, mining engineer, from
Hermosillo, Sonora, a recent visitor
at the Los Angeles chamber of mines
and oil, has called the attention of the
chamber to the provisions of the new
Mexican mining law requiring resur-
vey and permanent monumenting OF
mining claims denounced under the
provisions of the law of June s, 1S92:
As a number of our Los Angeles cit
izens are interested in the various
rarts of our tributary territory in
Mexico. Secretary Swindell of the
chamber of mines and oil has FUR
nlshed the following extracts from the
new mining law:
Article 5 (transitory articles) pro-
vides that: "A term of six months IS
hereby granted to the owners of mines
who have failed to comply with tne
provisions of the first part of article
2 of the law of June 6, 1892, Wlthm
which to prove to the department OF
Fomento that they have fulfilled the
requirements which the laws on Whlch
their titles are based prescribe for the
preservation of their property Inc
term of six months is reckoned, OF
course, from January l, 1910, the GATE
upon which the new law became Ell
fective; and Mr.. Hogue informs the
chamber that this time has now peen
extended to January l, 1911. Tne ar
ticle mentioned above provides for
forfeiture of claims, if the law is not
complied with, in the following IAN
guage: eff they fail to furnish the
nroof required before the expiration
OF the said term, the titles snail pc
deemed to have lapsed without need
of anv special declaration to that et-
feet, and the properties involved snail
be freely denouncable."
ANOTHER PROVISION
There is a further provision of the
new law, which seems to have been
overlooked by a number of owners OF
mining claims, or pertenenclas, III
Mexico, as follows:
article g. mining title deeds, acts
and contracts recorded before the hrst
day of January, 1910, in accordance
with the provisions of the mining law
of June 4, 1892, and its regulations
shall not require a second registration
for. the subsistence of their legal et-
fects. Title deeds, acts and contracts,
which under this law are subject 10
registration and which have not yet
been recorded, shall be recorded, ana
shall produce their legal eftects IN
respect of third parties as from the
date of registration.
The second part of this article is IN
effect retroactive.
Another article in the new law al
lows one year for the setting of land
marks to the boundaries of properties,
and provides that liability for loss or
damage to a third party for failure TO
comply with this regulation shall fall
upon the original owner. lt'also pro-
yides that the party liable for such
failure to comply with the law shall
be subject to fine; and, if he persists
in such omission. provides for impris-
onment. -
The chamber of mines and oil has
on file for reference several of the lat
est translations of the new mining law
of Mexico, and Secretary SWindell
suggests to all local mining men in
terested in Mexico the advisability OF
consulting them.
r. L. Hogue will be in Los Angeles
for several weeks, and says he will
furnish gratuitous advice in regard
to the operations of the new law,
though he advises the seeking Of pro-
fessiOnal advice in regard to the legal
phases of the various sections of the
law.