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Show MINIM? CL1.1I A11A1M-.TIEXT. A11A1M-.TIEXT. On the 10th of June next, if the requisite amount of work has not been done on mining claims located prior to tho Act of .May 10th, lb72, such claims will bo open to re-location in the Bame manner a-i if no location had ever been made. Following are the points of the law bearing on tho subject: On eacli claim located after p ipage of this act, and until a patent shall have been issued therefor, no lew than $100 worth of laljor shall be performed per-formed or improvement) made during dur-ing each year. On all claims located prior to the passage of this act, ?10 worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made e ch yiar for each one hundred feet in length along tho vein, until a f latent shall have been issued therefor; I iut where such claims aro held in1 common, such expenditure may be made upon any one claim; and upon n failure to comply with these condi-tirnn, condi-tirnn, the claim, ermine, upon which failure occurred, shall bo open tore-location tore-location in the same manner jw if no location of tho name had ever been made; Provided, That the original locators, their hciin, assigns or h-gal representatives, have not resumed VtJik upon the claim after such failure and be thru mi "h location. The law provides that if any one of the several co-owners fuila to contribute contrib-ute his portion of expenditures upon certain measureH being taken, he can ho ousted from ownership. After this law whs parsed it wu." found best lo extend the time tor the first annual expenditures upon claims located prior to tho pannage of the net, and an amendment to tho original origin-al bill wh approved un tho first of March, 187.'(, extending the lime for the first annual expenditures, on 1 claims located prior to the passao ol 1 the act, to tho tenth day of June, By this it will be Hem that if the i work is not done, or b''gun, (n or be- i fore tho Kith of June, this year, tho claims will bo open for ro-location, unless the original loeatora have resumed re-sumed work on theni. Tliia being f tho case miners had bolter bryiii now 1 lo look out for their claims, ' j i |