Valdez daily prospector., 1913-05-12
NEW MINING LAW
 AS PASSED
General Provisions Concerning Lode and Placer Mining
 Claims.

l supplement- the mining laws of the United States in their application to the Territory of Alaska. Here is the bill:
 Section 1. That no person shall hereafter locate any mining claim in the Territory of Alaska as at torney for another unless he is duly authorized thereto by pow CT of attorney in writing, which will be witnessed by two witness es but need not be acknowledged, and recorded in the office of the recorder in whose precinct each location is made, previous to the date of the initiation of such To- cation.
 Section ,. That the value of work or labor done under the pro- visions of this act shall be com- jputed on the basis of the wage for similar work current in the iprecinct wherein the claim is sit uate
 Section 3. That during each year and until patent has been issued therefor, not less~than one hundred dollars worth of labor shall be performed or improve ments made on, or for the benefit of each and every lode mining claim, and one hundred dollars worth of labor shall be perform cd or improvements made on or for the benefit of each and every twenty acres or fractional part thereof contained in any placer claim hereafter located and after the twenty first day of December, 1914, one hundred dollars worth tof labor shall be performed or Improvements made on or for the benefit of each and every twenty acres, or fractional part thereof contained in any claim hereto fore located, and such work shall be known as annual assessment wurk.' The owner of such claim or some other person having Knowledge of the facts. shall make and file with the recorder of the precinct wherein such claim is situate. an affidavit showing the performance of labor or making of improvement tO the amount of one hundred dollars for each and every twenty acres OF frar- tiunal part thereof contained in such claim as aforesaid and spec flying the character of such la bor or improvements.
 Such affidavit shall sci forth the following:
 a The nam" OF number of the claim and where situated.
 ,b' The number of days work done and the character and val ue of the improvement thereon. e. Date of the performance of Fsuch labor and making of i'm provements.
 1 '(d) The place where such work was done and improvements made with reference to the boundaries of such claim.
 (e) At whose instance the work was done and improvements made.
 (f) The actual amount paid for such work and improvements and by whom paid when such work was not done or improvements made by the owner.
 Such affidavit shall be filed with the precinct recorder not later than ninety days after the close of the calendar year in which the work was done or improvements made. For the filing, recording and indexing of such affidavit the recorder shall collect the sum of one dollar and fifty cents. Up- on, failure to comply with all the provisions of this section such claim shall become forfeited and open to location by others as if no location had been made.
 Section 4. That any person who shall make or subscribe any af- fidavit leGnired to be made under tho provisions of this act, know ing the statements therein con- !tained, or any of them, to be false in whole or in part, or without knowing the statements therein contained to be true, shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and up-' on Conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one nGr more than five years.
 Any person who shall induce or procure, or who shall aid in in- l.,