The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-24

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prevent the abandonment or forfeit
ture of such claim and save the
rights of the original locator.
Section 3. association placer min
ing claim shall hereafter be located in
Alaska in excess of forty acres. and
on every individual or association
placer mining claim located in Alas
ka after August LIST. 1912. and until
patent has been issued therefor, not
less than one hundred (S10O.00) dol
lars worth of labor shall be per
formed or Improvements made dur
ing each calendar year. including the
year of location for each and every
twenty acres or fraction thereof and
where the title of two or more con
tiguouS placer claims has been vest
ed il the same person or persons,
IT corporation, the said annual as
sessment work or improvements may
be done or made at any place or
places on said contiguous placer
claims. provided. that such work or
improvements inures to, and is for
the benefit of the entire area of
such placer claims. In computing
the value of assessment work or
! improvements. the rate of wages
paid in the vicinity for similar work,
shall be allowed.
Section L. And it is further pro
vided, that survey of the claim
or claims by United States min
eral surveyor may be credited to an
nual assessment work, but in no case
shall the credit for such survey and
! its attendant expense. exceed the re
[ quired assessment for one year on
the claim or claims surveyed. When
| redit Is sought for much work OF
| Improvement, the claimant must file
| in the Recorders office in the dis
trct in which the claim is situated
the field notes of the survey, to-
! gether with voucher showing the
cost OF such survey, properly at
! tested by the surveyor. incorporated
into the proof of annual labor as in
case of other class of labor or in
provements, as provided for in Sec
| ton Seven 90 of this Act.
Section 5. That no individual plac,
er mining location hereafter made
| shall be more than thirteen hundred
! twenty G320) feet in its greatest
/ length; and no association placer
/ mining claim hereafter located shall
be more than two thousand six hun
! dred forty (2640) feet in its greatest
( length.
Any location made containing an
| excess Of ground beyond the limits
prescribed in this Act, either in area
or length, may be RELOCATED as to
| such excess but such ra-lScation shat
be upon that end of the claim far
/ thest from the initial stake. post OF
| monument.
! Section s. That no power of at
| torney for the location of placer min
! ing claims in Alaska shall be valid
/ 7 have any tHrce or effect what
/ soever, nor shall any locations made
! Hereunder be valid or have any
| force or effect unless such power
Of attorney be duly executed and
acknowledged before an officer au-
thorized to administer oaths and re-
corded in the office of the Recorder
for the district in which such claim
| is located, prior to the date of the
! filing for record of any location
| hereunder. And no person shall be
authorized to act as agent or attor-
ney for the location of placer min
| ing claims except under written
power of attorney duly executed and
! acknowledged, and no person shall
/ torney in fact for the location of
| placer mining claims for more than
| one individual in any one Record
ing District during the same calen-
| dar month. That no person shall
| hereafter locate, or cause to be To-
/ Gated for himself more than two
placer mining claims in any one cal
endar month, in any one Recording
CT rin hot Of i,h
/ tons may be included in associa
ion claims.
Section 7. In order to hold a
claim or claims after the annual as
I 3essment work has been done there
on, the owner of such claim or
! claims. or some other person havins
knowledge of the facts, shall make
and file an affidavit of the perform
ance Of such assessment work with
| the recorder of the district in whic
such claim or claims is or are To-
Gated, not later than ninety 600 day
after the close of the calendar year
! in which such work was done, or
the improvements made, which aft
davit shall set forth the following:
(a) The name and number of
| the claim and where sit
uated.
| % The number of the days
| work and the character and
-e value Of the Improvements
| made thereon.
| (c) The date of the performance
! of such labor and the, max
| . ing of such improvements.
! (D The place where such work
| was done and the improve
nanfS made with
to the boundaries of such
| claim.
(e) At whose instance the work
was done and improve
! ments made.
(D The actual amount paid for
for such work and i'm
| provements and by whom
/ paid, when such work was
| not done or improvements
| made by the owner
The failure to file for record the
proof of assessment work as herein
provided. shall be deemed an aban
donment of the location and the
claim shall be subject to relocation
by any other person. provided, how
ever. that a compliance with the
provisions of this section before any
relocation, shall operate to save the
rights of the original locator, and
! further provided. that if said placer
| claim or claims have NOT been ret,.,-