The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-24

such annual expenditure.
LOCATION OF MlLLSiTE CLAIMS.
Section II. The proprietor of a
lode claim (or the owner of quartz
mill or reduction works situate
upon the land proposed to be locat-
/ ed. may locate not more than five
acres of non-mineral land as a mill
site by posting thereon notice OF
location and by marking the boun-
| daries thereof as hereinafter pro
vided.
! The notice of location must con
| tain:
| First: The name OF the locator or
| locators.
Second: The name of the lode
claim or claims to which the mill
site is appurtenant, or of the quartz
| mill or reduction works, owned by
| the locator or locators.
Third The date of location.
Fourth The amount of surface
ground claimed.
Fifth: Such a description of the
| millsite with reference to some ma
tural object or permanent monument
as will identify it.
The boundaries and corners of the
milsite must be marked upon the
ground in the same manner as re-
CURED by the act for lode locations.
Recording shall be performed as
required under lodes.
Assessment Work on MIIsites:
During each calendar year after the
year of location and until patent
has been issued therefor at least
twenty five ($25.00) dollars worth
of labor shall be performed or
improvements made upon each mill
site claim heretofore or hereafter
located in the Territory Of Alaska.
And the locator or owner of such
claim, or some person having knowl-
edge of the facts, shall make and
file with the recorder of the district
N which the claim is situate an af-
fidavit showing the performance of
labor or making of Improvements
to the amount of twenty-five ($25.00)
dollars as aforesaid, and specify the
character and extent of such work
in the manner set forth in this act
under the provisions relating to
proof of labor on lode claims.
And the recorder shall collect
fee for filing, indexing and recording
each such proof of annual labor on
millsites, of the same amount and
in a similar manner as hereinafter
provided under the section Of this
act relating to proofs of labor on
lode claims.
PROVIDED. that the claimant or
owner of any millsite claim in the
Territory of Alaska shall have the
privilege of paying on or before the
31st day Of December of the current
year to the Territorial treasurer of
Alaska the sum of twenty-five ($25.-
J0) dollars. lawful money Of the
United States in lieu of expending
the said amount on labor or i'm
provements on the said millsite claim
in said current year.
The Territorial treasurer shall is
sue a receipt therefor, which re-
ceipt shall bear upon it's face the
name Of the said millsite claim, the
name of the claimant thereto, the
name of the person making the pay
ment, and such description of, or
reference to the location notice of
the said claim as will positively
identify it; and the recording of
such receipt with the recorder of
the district in which such claim is
SitudlS, within NJo) ddy dItCl
the issue thereof, shall be deemed
the equivalent of the performance
If twenty-five ($25.00) dollars worth
of annual labor or making Of i'm
provements on or for the benefit of
said millsite claim.
PROVIDED, also, that the cost of
making a survey of such millsite
claim by United States Mineral
7urveyor shall be deemed to fall
within the meaning of the term
making Of improvements" as here
inbefore used the procedure in
such case to follow the requirements
Of this act relating to the survey of
lode claims in all respects
SURVEY OF MINING CLAIMS.
Section IS. Where locator or
owner Of lode, tunnel site or mill
site claim has all the exterior lines,
or the boundaries of his claim sur
veyed, and the corners established
by a United States mineral survey
or; corner No. l of the location
should be connected by course and
distance with the nearest corner Of
the public survey or with United
States monument, if the cain lie
within two miles of such corner or
monument. In case the claim Is sit
uated in a district where there are
no corners Of the public survey and
no monuments within the prescribed
limits, the United States mineral
surveyor will proceed to establish
such mineral monument in accord
ance with the requirements of the
United States mining laws. The
locator will incorporate into his
amended location notice the field
notes of said survey which shall
contain certificate by said mineral
surveyor, setting forth:
First: That such survey was &C
tually made by him in his own prop
er person giving the date thereof
and the name of all assistants.
Second: The name of the claim
and locator or locators thereof
Third: That the description in
corporated into the amended loca-
ton notice is sufficient to identify
the locus of the claim.
An amended location notice, in
Guiding said field notes and accom-
panying certificate, is prima facie !,
evidence Of the facts therein con-
tanned, and shall be recorded with |
the recorder of the district within
which the claim Is located.
ANNUAL ASSESSMENT WORK.
Section 10. On each location one |
hundred (s1O000) dollars worth OF
labor shall be performed or improve
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