The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-11

poration, the said annual assessment work or Improvements may be done or made at any place or places on said contiguous placer claims, provid- ed; that such work or Improvements inures to, and Is for the entire area of such placer claims. In computing the value of assessment work or im- provements, the rate of wages paid in the vicinity for similar work, shall be allowed.
 Section 4. And it Is further provid- ed, that survey of the claim or claims by United States Mineral Surveyor may be credited to annual assessment work. but in no case shall the credit for such survey and it's at- tendant expense, exceed the required assessment for one year on the claim or claims surveyed When credit is sought for such work or improvement, the claimant must file in the recorders office in the district in which the claim Is situated the field notes of the survey, together with voucher show ing the cost of such survey, properly attested by the surveyor, incorporated into the proof of annual labor as in the case of other class of labor or i'm provements, as provided for in Sec ton Seven CD of this act.
 Section 5. That no individual plac- CT mining location hereafter shall be more than thirteen hundred twenty t132O) feet in its greatest length; and no association placer mining claim hereafter located shall be more than two thousand six hundred forty (2640) feet in it's greatest length.
 Any location made containing an ex- cess of ground beyond the limits pre- scribed by this act, either in area or length. may be relocated as to such excess, but such relocation shall be made upon that end of the claim farthest from the initial post or mon- ument.
 Section 6. That no power of att torney for the location of placer min ing claims in Alaska shall be valid or have any force or effect whatsoever, nor shall any locations made there under be valid or have any force or effect unless such power of attor- ney be duly executed and acknowl- edged before an officer duly authorized to administer oaths and recorded in the office of the recorder for the dis trict in which the claim is located. prior to the date of filing for record of any location hereunder. And no per son shall be authorized to act as agent or attorney for the location of placer mining claims except under written power of attorney duly executed and acknowledged. and no person shall be. competent to act as agent or at- torney iii fact for the location of placer mining claims for more than one individual in any one recording district during the same calendar month, in any one Recording district, one or both of which locations may be included in association claims.
 Section ' In order to hold claim or claims after the annual assess ment work has been done thereon, the owner of such claim or claims, or some other person having knowledge of the facts. shall make and file an affidavit of the performance of such assessment work with the recorder of the district in which such claim or claims is or are located, not later than ninety (90) days after the close of the calendar year in which such work was done, or the improvements made, which affidavit shall set forth the fol- lowing
 q. The name and number of the
 claim and where situated
 b. The number of days work
 and the character and value of
 the Improvements made there
 on.
 c. The date of the performance
 of such labor. and the making
 of such improvements. d. The place where such work