said meeting all males of the age of twenty-one years and upward holding mining claims, or any interest therein, within said limits, may vote, and by a majority vote determine whether said new mining district shall be established, and its boundaries, which shall be within the limits named in said notices; and thereafter the persons so qualified and holding mining claims in such newly established district shall proceed to select a name therefor and elect a district recorder, who shall be qualified as aforesaid. He shall perform all the duties required of him by law, and shall, within thirty days after qualifying, file and record in his office a record of the proceedings of said meeting. No district formed under the provisions of this act shall be divided by any county line. Mining districts now existing may be continued.

SEC. 22. On and after the second Saturday of July, 1866, all locations of mining claims shall be made in the following manner: On a monument not less than three feet high, firmly established in a conspicuous place on the claim, there shall be placed a plainly-written notice embracing a description of the ground claimed, the date of location, the name of the claim, the name of the company, and the names of the locators, with the number of feet claimed by each, and a copy of said notice, accompanied by a written request for a survey of said claim by the district recorder, shall, within thirty days after the making of such location, be filed in the office of the district recorder of the district in which said claim is located; and in case there be no legally authorized district recorder in and for the district, or the claim be outside of the limits of an organized mining district, then, and in that case, said notice may be filed in the office of the county recorder of the county in which said claim is located; and a written request for a survey by the county surveyor shall be served upon the county surveyor within a reasonable time thereafter; the county surveyor, or his deputy, shall perform all the duties required of a district recorder by the provisions of this act. He shall keep a record of all his transactions in such cases, and for such services he may charge and receive the same fees allowed by law for his services in like cases. Within thirty days after the making of such location there shall be done on said claim, as assessment work, to hold the same up to and including the day preceding the first Saturday of the then following August, excavation involving the removal of fifty cubic feet of earth or loose material, or five cubic feet of solid rock, for each two hundred feet in the claim; and, as soon as may be thereafter, said district recorder shall survey the same and record the notice of survey as provided in section 14 of this act; and said district recorder shall file and record a certificate in regard to the assessment work, which shall be substantially in the following form:

DISTRICT,

COUNTY, NEVADA,
OF

DAY OF

YEAR.

This is to certify that on the

claim governed by the

MONTH

company,

surveyed on date, there has been done by or on behalf of said company sufficient work to hold said claim up to the first Saturday of August next. District Recorder.

SEC. 23. Any person may locate mining claims in favor of others, but no person shall be entitled to hold by location more than two hundred feet of any one ledge, except by virtue of discovery of the same, for which he shall be entitled to hold two hundred feet additional. In the case of locations made as extensions, the location of two hundred feet by virtue of discovery is allowed. No claim shall, in the aggregate, exceed in extent two thousand feet on any one ledge.

SEC. 24. Any location made on a ledge by authority of this act shall be deemed to include all the dips, spurs, angles, and variations of said ledge. The locators of any ledge shall be entitled to hold one hundred feet on each side of

the same, not interfering with the mining rights previously acquired by others' and all dips, spurs, angles, variations, veins, cross-ledges, strings, and feeders within such area of two hundred feet, by the extent of the claim on the supposed line of the ledge as located, shall be considered as claimed and held by said locators as a part of said ledge, and no ledge in any claim subsequently located shall be followed and worked within the said area without the permission of the holders of said area. All measurement of boundaries shall be horizontal air-lines. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as in any manner to change the amount of ground that may be held in any mining claim located and held in accordance with district mining laws, but on and after the first Saturday of August, 1866, all such claims shall in all other respects be subject to the provisions of this act. Locations may be made on blind ledges in the same manner as on cropping ledges, and any person, company, or corporation finding a blind ledge in any excavation made by him or them shall, for ten days after finding the same, have the exclusive privilege of locating the same.

SEC. 25. No person shall become a locator in more than one claim on the same ledge, and any second location made on the same ledge by or in the name of a party already located on such ledge shall be void.

SEC. 26. The holders of any claim shall have the right to use so much of the land in the vicinity thereof as may be requisite for dumps, for the erection of the necessary buildings, machinery, and other works connected with said claim, and for the convenient development and working of the same. And in the development and working of the said claim they may sink shafts and inclines, and run drifts, tunnels, and cuts on any lands in said vicinity, but the prior owner of such lands shall be entitled to reasonable compensation for all damages sustained by reason of such dumps, the erection of such works, or the conducting of such operations. If the prior owners of any such lands have duly claimed the same as mining ground, they shall be entitled to all the ores taken out in the course of such operations, and shall not be interfered with in the conducting of their own mining operations on their own claims. The amount of such compensation shall be determined by a majority of three commissioners, one of whom shall be appointed by such prior owners, one by the party engaged in such development or working, and one by the two thus selected. The amount so fixed shall, within fifteen days after the fixing of the same, be paid to said prior owners, or deposited in the county treasury, subject to the order of said prior owners. Said commissioners shall, before entering upon their duties, take and subscribe to an oath, before some person duly qualified to administer the same, to make a true appraisement thereof according to the best of their knowledge and belief.

SEC. 30. For the purposes of this act the term "foot," when used without qualification in relation to mining ground, is hereby declared to mean twelve. lineal inches, horizontal air line measurement, on the line of the ledge as located ; the term "assessment work" is hereby declared to mean the work done partly, in order to hold a claim, and involving the excavation of fifty cubic feet of earth or loose matter, or five cubic feet of solid rock, for each two hundred feet in the claim; the term "assessment dues" is hereby declared to mean two cents for each foot in a claim, to be paid for the purpose of holding the same one assessment year; and the term "assessment year" is hereby declared to mean the period extending from and including the first Saturday of August of one year to and including the day immediately preceding the first Saturday of August of the following year. The doing of assessment work or the payment of assessment dues shall be regarded as evidence of intention to hold the claim on which or with reference to which the same was done or paid, for the period for which the same was done or paid. The payment of assessment dues shall be in lieu of the assessment work heretofore usually required as an evidence of intention to hold a mining claim for a specified period; and such payment shall not be required in any case where the holders of a mining claim are in good

faith, and to the extent specified in section thirty-two of this act, engaged in developing or working the same.

SEC. 31. On the first Saturday of August, 1866, at which time the first assessment year shall begin, this act shall supersede all district mining laws, and thereafter said laws shall be considered as repealed: Provided, Any and all rights heretofore acquired under and by virtue of such district mining laws shall be determined in accordance with said mining laws existing at the time when said rights were acquired. During the period extending from and including the first day of May, 1866, to and including the day immediately preceding the first Saturday of the following August, no claim shall become subject to relocation by reason of the non-performance of assessment work. Locations may be made under this act at any time on and after the second Saturday of July, 1866, at which time the district recorders elected under this act shall, if qualified, enter upon the discharge of their duties, and on and after said second Saturday of July no location shall be made under district mining laws.

SEC. 32. The doing of assessment work, or the payment of assessment dues, shall not be required in order to hold a claim during any assessment year, if during the year next preceding such assessment year there has been done on said claim, by or on behalf of the claimants thereof, an amount of work costing at a fair valuation not less than fifty cents for each foot in said claim; but in all other cases assessment work shall be done or assessment dues shall be paid as provided in this act. Assessment dues shall be paid for every assessment year by the parties holding the claim to the district recorder elected under this act, before the first Saturday of August commencing the assessment year for which they are paid, except as otherwise provided in this section.

SEC. 33. Except as otherwise provided in section 32, every mining claim located and held under district mining laws, on which before the first day of May, 1866, there has been work done involving the excavation of fifty cubic feet of earth or loose matter, or five cubic feet of solid rock, for each two hundred feet in such claim, shall be subject to assessment dues. On every mining claim located and held under district mining laws, on which such work has not been done before the first day of May, 1866, assessment work shall be done on or before the day immediately preceding the first Saturday of August, 1866. The doing of such assessment work or the paying of such assessment dues shall enable the owner of said claim to hold the same for the next ensuing assessment year, commencing on the first Saturday of August, 1866.

SEC. 34. The assessment work done within the thirty days after the location of a claim under this act, as provided in section 22, shall hold the same only up to the beginning of the assessment year following the date of said location, and for such next ensuing assessment year and for every year thereafter, except as provided in section 32 of this act, such claim shall be subject to assessment dues. SEC. 45. The extraction of gold or other metals from alluvial or diluvial deposits, generally called placer mining, shall be subject to such regulations as the miners in the several mining districts shall adopt.

18.—REGULATIONS OF THE VIRGINIA DISTRICT, NEVADA.

The following are the regulations of the district of Virginia City, Nevada, adopted September 14, 1859:

ARTICLE 1. All quartz claims hereafter located shall be two hundred feet on the lead, including all its dips and angles.

ART. 2. All discoverers of new quartz veins shall be entitled to an additional claim for discovery.

ART. 3. All claims shall be designated by stakes and notices at each corner. ART. 4. All quartz claims shall be worked to the amount of ten dollars or three days' work per month to each claim, and the owner can work to the

amount of forty dollars as soon after the location of the claim as he may elect ; which amount being worked shall exempt him from working on said claim for six months thereafter.

ART. 5. All quartz claims shall be known by a name and in sections.

ART. 6a All claims shall be properly recorded within ten days from the time of location.

ART. 7. All claims recorded in the Gold Hill record and lying in the Virginia district shall be recorded free of charge in the record of Virginia district, upon the presentation of a certificate from the recorder of the Gold Hill district certifying that said claims have been duly recorded in said district; and said claims shall be recorded within thirty days after the passage of this article.

ART. 9. Surface and hill claims shall be one hundred feet square, and be designated by stakes and notices at each corner.

ART. 10. All ravine and gulch claims shall be one hundred feet in length, and in width extend from bank to bank, and be designated by a stake and notice at each end.

ART. 11. All claims shall be worked within ten days after water can be had sufficient to work said claims.

ART. 12. All ravine, gulch and surface claims shall be recorded within ten days after location.

ART. 13. All claims not worked according to the laws of this district shall be forfe ted and subject to relocation.

ART. 14. There shall be a recorder elected, to hold his office for the term of twelve months, who shall be entitled to the sum of fifty cents for each claim located and recorded.

ART. 15. The recorder shall keep a book with all the laws of this district written therein, which shall at all times be subject to the inspection of the miners of said district; and he is furthermore required to post in two conspicuous places a copy of the laws of said district.

19.-REGULATIONS OF REESE RIVER DISTRICT, NEVADA.

The following are the regulations of the Reese River district, Nevada: SECTION. 1. The district shall be known as the Reese River mining district, and shall be bounded as follows, to wit: On the north by a distance of ten miles from the overland telegraph line, on the east by Dry creek, on the south by a distance of ten miles from the overland telegraph line, and on the west by Edward's creek, where not conflicting with any new districts formed to date.

SEC. 2. There shall be a mining recorder elected on the first day of June next for this district, who shall hold office for one year from the 17th of July next, unless sooner removed by a new election, which can only be done by a written call, signed by at least fifty claim-holders, giving notice of a new election to be held, after said notice shall have been posted and published for at least twenty days in some newspaper published in or nearest this district; and the recorder shall be a resident of this district.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the recorder to keep in a suitable book or books a full and truthful record of the proceedings of all public meetings; to place on record all claims brought to him for that purpose, when such claim shall not interfere with or affect the rights and interests of prior locators, recording the same in the order of their date, for which service he shall receive one dollar ($1) for each claim recorded. It shall also be the duty of the recorder to keep his books open at all times to the inspection of the public; he shall also have the power to appoint a deputy to act in his stead, for whose official acts he shall be held responsible. It shall also be the duty of the recorder to deliver to his successor in office all books, records, papers, &c., belonging to or pertaining to his office.

SEC. 4. All examinations of the record must be made in the full presence of the recorder or his deputy.

SEC. 5 Notice of a claim of location of mining ground by any individual, or by a company, on file in the recorder's office, shall be deemed equivalent to a record of the same.

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SEC. 6. Each claimant shall be entitled to hold by location two hundred feet on any lead in the district, with all the dips, spurs, and angles, offshoots, outcrops, depths, widths, variations, and all the mineral and other valuables therein contained, the discoverer of and locator of a new lead being entitled to one claim extra for discovery.

SEC. 7 The locator of any lead, lode, or ledge in the district shall be entitled to hold on each side of the lead, lode, or ledge located by him or them one hundred feet; but this shall not be construed to mean any distinct or parallel ledge within the two hundred feet other than the one originally located.

SEC 8 All locations shall be made by a written notice posted upon the ground, and boundaries described, and all claimants' names posted on the notice. SEC. 9. Work done on any tunnel, cut, shaft, or drift, in good faith, shall be considered as being done upon the claim owned by such person or company. SEC. 10. Every claim (whether by individual or company) located shall be recorded within ten days after the date of location.

SEC 11. All miners locating a mining claim in this district shall place and maintain thereon a good and substantial monument or stake, with a notice thereon of the name of the claim, the names of the locators, date of location, record, and extent of claim. It is hereby requested that owners in claims already located do comply with the requirements of this section.

SEC. 12. The recorder shall go upon the ground with any and all parties desiring to locate claims, and shall be entitled to receive for such service one dollar for each and every name in a location of two hundred feet each.

SEC. 13. It is hereby made the duty of the mining recorder, upon the written application of twenty-five miners, to call a meeting of the miners of the district by giving a notice of twenty days through some newspaper published in the Reese River district, which notice shall state the object of the meeting and the place and time of holding the same.

SEC. 14. The laws of this district passed July 17, 1862, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 15. These laws shall take effect on and after the fourth day of June, 1864.

20.—QUARTZ STATUTE OF THE STATE OF OREGON.

SECTION 1. That any person, or company of persons, establishing a claim on any quartz lead containing gold, silver, copper, tin, or lead, or a claim on a vein of cinnabar, for the purpose of mining the same, shall be allowed to have, hold, and possess the land or vein, with all its dips, spurs, and angles, for the distance of three hundred feet in length and seventy-five feet in width on each side of such lead or vein.

SEC. 2. To establish a valid claim the discoverer or person wishing to establish a claim shall post a notice on the lead or vein, with name or names attached, which shall protect the claim or claims for thirty days; and before the expiration of said thirty days he or they shall cause the claim or claims to be recorded as hereinafter provided, and describing, as near as may be, the claim or claims, and their location; but continuous working of said claim or claims shall obviate the necessity of such record. If any claim shall not be worked for twelve consecutive months it shall be forfeited and considered liable to location by any person or persons, unless the owner or owners be absent on account of sickness, or in the service of their country in time of war.

SEC. 3. Any person may hold one claim by location, as hereinafter pro