The Nome daily nugget., 1915-05-26

thereof and where the title Of TWO or more contiguous placer claims has corporation, the said annual assess ment work or Improvements may be on said contiguous placer claims, pro- Vided, 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 4 And it is further provided that a survey of the claim or claims by a United States Mineral Surveyor may be credited to annual assessment work. but in no case shall the credit for such survey and it's attendant ex- pense, exceed the required assessment for one year on the claim or claims sur veyed 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 sit uated the field notes of the survey. to- gether with a voucher showing the hy the surveyor. incorporated into the proof of annual labor as in case of other class of labor or Improvements. as provided for in Section Seven G of this act.
 Section ,. That no individual placer mining location hereafter made shall be more than thirteen hundred twenty Q320) feet in it's greatest length; and no association placer mining claim hereafter located shall be more than two thousand six hundred forty (2G40) feet in it's greatest length.
 IAny location made containing an excess of ground beyond the limits prescribed in this Act, either in area oi iSiStli, DC IS-lOCattu dS lO such excess, but such re location shall be upon that end of the claim farthest from the initial stake. post or monu- ment.
 Section 6. That no power of attorney in Alaska shall be valid or have any force or effect whatsoever, nor shall any locations made hereunder be valid or have any force or effect unless such power of attorney be duly ex ecuted and acknowledged before an of ficer authorized to administer oaths and recorded in the office of the Re corder 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 attorney for the location of placer mining claims except under written power of attorney duly executed and acknowledged. and llo person Sndll be competent tp dtl as agent or attorney in fact for the loca : ton of placer mining claims for more than one individual in any one Re cording District during the same calen- dar month. That no person shall here after locate, or cause to be located for himself, more than two placer mining claims in any one calendar month. in any one Recording District, one or both of which locations may be in- cluded in association claims.
 Section [ In order to hold claim or claims after the annual assessment work has been done thereon, the owner of such clai nor 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 (9O) days after the close of the calendar year in which such work was done, or the improvements made, which affidavit shall set forth the following.
 a. The name and number of the claim and where situated
 b. The number of the days work and the character and value of the improvements made thereon.
 c. The date of the performance of such labor and the making of such im- provements.
 d. The place where such work was done and improvements made with re- ference 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