The Nome daily nugget., 1915-05-26
H. B. NO. 4e.


 laws of the United State. in the Ter Act entitled, "An Act to supplement the mining laws of the United States in their application to the Territory of Alaska; providing for the location and possession of mining claims in Alaska and repeating all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith to the extent of such conflicts, approv- ed April 30, ls13."
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska:
 Section l. Any person qualified un der the laws of the United States, who ulScoNefS upon tHe pupiic uoiildih WitH- in the Territory of Alaska placer deposit of gold, other mineral which is subject to entry and patent under the mining laws of the United States, may locate a mining claim thereon in the following manner, towit:
 1st He shall post, or write upon the initial post, stake, or monument on the claim, a notice of location contain ing:
 a. The name or number of the cla i'm. b. The name of the locator or To- cators
 C. The date of discovery and of boating notice on the claim.
 d The number of feet in length and width of the claim.
 This notice shall be known as the location notice.
 End. He shall distinctly mark the location on the ground that it's boundaries can be readily traced by placing at each corner or angle there of substantial stakes. or posts, not less than three feet high above the ground and three inches in diameter, hewed on four sides: or by placing at each corner or angle thereof mounds of cart h or rock not less than three feet high and three feet in diameter and the stakes. posts or monuments so used must be marked with the name or number of the claim and the designa- tion. by number, of the corner or angle. The initial stake or monument shall be one of the corner stakes. posts or mon uments of the claim located.
 If the claim is located on ground that is covered wholly or in part with brush or trees. such brush or trees shall be cut or blazed along the lines of such claim, so as to be readily traced
 If located in an open country. the boundary lines shall be located by placing line stakes or line monuments so as to be readily traced from corner to corner of said claim
 Section ?. Within ninety days after the discovery and posting of the notice aforesaid. the locator shall record with the Recorder of the District wherein such claim is situated a certificate of location. Such certificate shall con- tain:
 q. The name or number of the claim.
 b. The name of the locator or lo- cators.
 c. The date of discovery and of posting of the location notice.
 d. The number of feet in length and width of the claim.
 e. It shall set forth the description with reference to some natural object, permanent monument, or we'll known mining claim, together with a descrip- tion of the boundaries thereof so far as applied to the numbering of stakes or monuments.
 A failure to record a certificate of location of claim as herein provided shall operate as and be deemed aban- donment thereof, and the ground so located shall be open to relocation; provided that if a full compliance with the preceding provisions of this act shall have been made before any lo- cation by another such compliance snail operate to prevent the abandon ment or forfeiture of such claim and save the rights of the original locator Section 3. No association placer mining claim shall hereafter be located in Alaska in excess of forty acres. and on every individual or association nlac- CT mining claim located in Alaska after August 1st 1912 and untjl na+su. l.,