Show bylaws alivs of the wasatch mountain mining district eat at ft a InC meeting eting of tile the miners or of tho the wasatch mountain mining district held at great salt like city utah territory the lay day of november A A 1863 J M williamson w was Is called to tile tho chair and henry 0 pratt a appointed p secretary the chairman announced the object of tile the meeting to 0 o be for the purpose of organizing ting a mining district M G lewis moved to adopt the following lax laws s to govern th the 0 mining operations of the district which acre massod i article this district shall include thit portion artion of territory situated in the territory PO or of utah abid botin bounded ded as ag follows commencing at tile the confluence or of tile the weber river with G reat salt lake ri running inning thence along the right bank of said ris pr to its cast fork along iho 1110 right bank of said east forato iti he head ad thence due south to tile alio fortieth degree of north latitude thence along said eaid fortieth degree of if north latitude to lake utah thence along the cast of Lak eUtah cUtali to jordan rv river thence along the cast bl bank ank ot of jordan river to great S tit like and along the cast margin of great salt lake to the place of begin beginning pil article art ae agid c ad the extent of a claim on any qi quartz lartz lode or two hundred h feet e e to the iho claim I 1 along th elode with a width jad t I 1 0 of f live five bundled feet on each side 3 including all its dips Ps angles all gIcs spurs tS and variation article ad no person will be permitted to than ono one claim b y on any one vein by purchase an any y number oi ot claims can be lie held id A article fth all claims located must have b ave a notice posted on them stating th thea number and the probable course cl claimed aimed tadd a copy odthe of the uoti cobo i recorded in the looks books of tile the district recorder article M each 1 COMP company any must do 10 one faithful days work on their claim c each aeb month after the first day of june 1864 on a f milli e to do so 80 tile the celium will ill bo be subject to be loc located 01 by any other person pro provided aided vided however that if tile the company are Pie prevented vented by local insurrection 0 or r le bellion from working g a failure nie to too fa sd so will not foi felt feit their chim article oth the discoverer of a vein of quartz containing corita ining gold silver copper lead I 1 or other valuable metals or minerals minei als will be entitled to locate 3 two claims article 7 ath i tb there shall be a district recorder reelected cord tr elected alc acted flom among the miners of tb the district N whose hose duty it shall be to record all claims lor for the tha purpose giving the namo name of each locator ator or owner and ana receiving a sum not n ot except i ig ono one dollar fiam each locator or owner provided pro tided however that it shall r not be lai lawful rill for tho the recorder to record any claim julat hat conflicts conflict with a prior location the recorder shall hold his office for one year or until his r successor Is chosen article etli all claims for gold surface diggings shall be two hundred feet fee A in length and two hundred feet in width article at ath locators on veins of coal or emr iron shall bal 1 bo be five hundred feet for cach locator tar and live five hundred d feet additional for tile the discoverer and shall in all jtb other ar re electa be subject to and enjoy tho the immen immunities ties of these laws tion on motion mr edward pennington was elected district recorder for one year on 03 motion of tho the S same ame the meeting as a adie journea sine e J M secretary chairman 1 |