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Show Mining Decision. The commissioner commis-sioner of the general laud office has rendered a decision of importance concerning a certain annual expenditure expendi-ture on all mining chums. Commid aionor Williamson holds that the first annual expenditure upon a claim located prior to May 10, 1872, should have been made by tho 1st of January, Jan-uary, 3875, and the second by January Jan-uary 1st 187G; also that the first annual expenditure upon a claim located Binoe May 10th, 1872, should have been or muat be made within ono year Irom the date of discovery and location, and that the amount required by the local mining law on regulations to be expended bolbre a record of such losses can be made may apply upou the firat annual expenditure ex-penditure on claims thus held, if tho other provisions of the law are complied com-plied with. The second year com uicncea immediately on the expiration expira-tion of the first, and the required expenditure may bo made any titue during the year. |