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Show MINING LAWS OF TUB TINTIC MIMING DISTRICT, Adopted nt a Special Meeting of Minors held at Silver City, J uly 1st, li This district shall be known as Tin-tic Tin-tic MiniDg District, and is bounded as follows : Commencing at a point six miles northwest from the south end of discovery claim known as the "Sunbeam," "Sun-beam," thence cast ten miles, thence south fifteen miles, thence west ten miles, thence north fifteen miles to point of beginning, embraciag an area of one hundred and fifty square miles, and shall be governed by the following prescribed laws ; ' Sec. 1, There shall be an annual meeting of the miners of this district, held on the second Saturday in December De-cember of caoh year, to revise and amend the by-laWB, for tho transaction of general mining business, and for the purpose of electing a recorder for the district, who shall hold office for the term of one year, and until his successor succes-sor is duly elected and qualified. Provided, Pro-vided, however, that he may bo removed re-moved at any time for misconduct in office or neglect of his duties (as prescribed pre-scribed by the laws of the district), by the voto of a majority of bona fide olaim-holdcrs at a meeting appointed for that purpose Sec. 2. The recorder shall be required re-quired to keep a substantially bound book, in which ho shall record all notices no-tices of location of all lodes, tunnels and other claims made in tho district. He shall also keep other suitable books tor the record of all other documents pertaining to the business of the district, dis-trict, and shall deliver the same, together to-gether with ail files of location and other documents in his possession, to bis successor in office on proper demand, de-mand, taking a receipt therefor. Sec. 3. The books ot record shall be kept within tho limits of the dis trkt and shall be open for record and examination daib? during business liottrs. Sundays rxeerited. The recorder recor-der shall carefully preserve all papers filed with him for record and shall note upon the back of each location notice, deed, or other instrument so filed the day and hour of filing, and such location notice, deed, or other instrument shall bo deemed recorded from and after the date and hour of such filing for record. Sec. 4. -The recorder may appoint one or more deputies under him, for whose official acts he shall be responsible; respon-sible; and no examination or inspection of the records shall bo made except in the presence of the recorder or his deputy. When a claim shall have been located and recorded the recorder shall, upon request, make and deliver to the owner, his agent, or attorney, a certificate of such record, which shall be evidence of the facts therein stated. The recorder shall be authorized to demand and receive for his services (in alt oases in advance), the following fees, to wit : for each claim or tunnel recorded by any person or company of persons, $3 ; for each deed, power of attorney, or bill of sale, $2 ; and for all other records, omoial documents, and transcripts, fifty cents for each one hundred words, or fractional parts thereof, Sec 5. Any person or persons, being be-ing citizenfl of tho United States,or having hav-ing declared their intention to become suob, may locate and hold mining claims in this distriot, subject to tho following rules and regulations. - Seo. G. All mining claims, whether ooatod by OBe or more persons, may equal, but shall not exceed, fificcn hundred feet in length along the vein or lode, but no location of a mining claim shall bo made until the disoovery of tho vein or lode within tho limits of the claim located ; no claim shall extend ex-tend more than ono hundred feot on each sido of tho middle of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim bo limited to less than one hundred feet, except where adverse rights, existing at the adoption of theso by laws, shall render such limitation necessary. The ends of each claim shall bo parallel to each other. Sco. 7. Any person or persons having hav-ing the right may locato a tunnel for the working and development of their claims and for the discovery of mines not previously known to exist; and the owners of such tunnel shall bavo the right of possession of all veins or lodes within three thousand feet from tho lace of such tunnel, on the line thereof, there-of, not previously known to exist, discovered dis-covered in such tunnel, to the same extent ex-tent as if discovered from tho surfaoc, and looationa on tho lino oi' such tunnel tun-nel of veins or lodes not appearing on the surface, made by other parties after the commencement of the tunnel and while the same is beiog prosecuted with reasonable diligence, shall bu invalid; in-valid; but tailure to prosecute the work on the tunnel for six months shall be considered as abandonmcntof the right to all undiscovered veins on the line of said tunnel. The locators of a tUDnel shall have the right to sufficient surface, sur-face, or an amount not exceeding 5u0 square feet at or adjacent to the mouth of said tunnel, for dump or other lawful law-ful purposes. Sec. H. AH locations, whether mining min-ing claims or tunnels, shall be distinctly marked on the ground by a substantial substan-tial stake or monument, not less than three tecs nigh, on which shall be written or posted a legible notice, giving giv-ing the date of location, the number of feet in IcDgth of the claim or tunnel, the number of feet each way from notice, no-tice, both in length and width, its direction, and tho name or oamca of the person or persona making the location; loca-tion; and such notice shall so describe such location that its boundaries can be readily traced on the surface, and all records of locations hereafter made shall contain such a description of the location by rcforenoo to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the same. Sec 9. AH locations made in this district, whether of claims or tunnels, shall be recorded within twenty days from the date of location. On each claim located not less than one hundred dollars worth of labor shall be performed perform-ed or improvements made during each year, until a patent Ehall have been issued is-sued therefor, and on each tunnel not less than one hundred dollars worth of labor shall bo performed each year, and a iailnre ro oomply with the?e requirements re-quirements shall be deemed equivalent to abandonment, and the claim shall be open to relocation in the same manner man-ner as if no location had ever been made. The iabor performed on a tunnel tun-nel shall bo considered as labor performed per-formed on the whole claim or location. Sec 10, Any person or persons having tho right may locate any spriDg or water privilege for mining purposes ia this district, and. shall be reuiiMd to be in possession or put improvement thereon to the amount ot twenty-fiv dollars annually. Sec. 11. Where two or more veins intersect or cross each other, priority of title shall govern, and such prior location shall be entitled to all ore or mineral contained within tho space of intersection; provided, however, that the subsequent location shall have the right of way through said space of intersection in-tersection for the purpose of the consequent con-sequent working of the said mine; and provided also that where two or more veins unite, the oldest or prior location shall take the vein below the point of union, including all the space of intersection. inter-section. . Sec. 12. In the event of a dispute arising between two or moro claimants, tho origiual claimant may hold h'fl ground until the bubsequent locator shall strip his claim to tho point in disputei and if a connection of vein, ledgo or mineral be shown the original locator shall hold the ground in dispute. Sec. 13. On any notice of relocation reloca-tion of any claim or lode being presented present-ed by any person or company of persons per-sons for file or record in tho office of the recorder of this district, it shall bo the duty of the recorder or his deputy to ascertain if such claim or lode be subjec: to relocation, by examiniog the records and making a personal inspection in-spection of the ground sought to be relocated re-located at the cost or expense of the person or persons applying lor such location, lo-cation, and if it shall appear that the required amount of labor has been performed, per-formed, he shall refuse to either file or record said relocation. Sec. 14. Any poison or persons, after doing tho amount of labor required re-quired by the laws of this district, shall make a report of the same, with the testimony of two or more disinterested disinter-ested miners, to the recorder, who shall enter such report on the records and give a certificate therefor to the nerion or com nan v iiinkirw snnh rn- port. Sec. 15. These by-laws cannot be altered or amended, except by tho vote of a majority of bona fide claim-holders present at a regular annual meot' ing of tho miners held in the district, ten days notice of which meeting shall be published by the recorder in the principal camps of the district and also by at least three insertions in any daily newspaper published Dearest the distriot. A special meeting of miners shall also be called by the recorder for transacting special mining business upon a written petition signed by seven or moro bona fide olaim-holdors in the district, and at least five days notice, stating the object lor which said meeting meet-ing is called, shall be given, by publishing pub-lishing it in the principal camps of the district. Sec. 10. These by-laws shall take effect and be in Ibree from and after their passage. I A. G. Sutherland, j Itecorder. , |