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Show Mine Assessment Work Again Suspended Text of the new act suspending suspend-ing annual assessment wcrk on mining claims, approved by Con-, Con-, gress May 3, was received today by A. G. Mackenie, executive secretary of the Utah Metal Mine Operators' Association. The bill, HR 2370, introduced by Representative Murdock of Arizona, provides that suspension suspen-sion as instituted last year of the- required $100 a year of work on each unpatented mining claim, in order to hold the claim until the patent goes through, be permitted until July 1 following follow-ing the end of the war, with no limit on the number of claims so j held. The number was restricted last year to six claims for an I individual and 12 for a corporation. corpora-tion. Under the present act, the claimant is required to file a I notice of intention to take advantage ad-vantage of the act, each year before 12 noon on July 1. Men in the armed forces have been provided with suspension by a separate act, and will not be affected by the bill. |