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having a mill contracted for in good faith, to the amount of
$5000, for the working of its claim or claims, the proper representatives of the company making oath of the same, shall
be entitled to receive from said county recorder a title-deed
to said claim or claims, guaranteeing to the claimant or company, their successors and assigns, undisputed possession and
proprietorship forever under these laws; provided that. nothing
in this article shall at any time be inconsistent with the laws
of the United States,
"Article 5. Whenever the requisite amount of money or
labor has not been expended within thirty days from the adoption of these laws, the claim or claims thus neglected shall
be considered abandoned and subject be relocated by any other
party or parties. ‘
"Article 6, Any person, a citizen of the United States, or
any person having taken the necessary. steps to become a citizen of the United States, shall be entitled to hold one quartz
claim as provided for in Article 2, and as many more as may
be purchased in good faith for a valuable consideration, for
which certificates of proprietorship shall be issued by the
county recorder.
"Article 7, The regularly elected county recorder of Nevada County shall serve: as recorder of this county in quartz
claims, authenticating his acts by the county seal. He shall
appoint as his deputy such persons for Grass Valley as may be
elected by the district of Grass Valley, and he shall pass his
records to his successor.
"Article 8. The fees of the recorder and deputy shall be
the same as the statute fees for recording per folio.
“Article 9, No title to a claim hereafter taken up or purchased shall be valid unless recorded in the books of the aforesaid county recorder or deputy within ten days of its location
or purchase,
"Adopted December 20, 1852,"
MINING LAWS OF LAFAYETTE HILL
The following laws of Lafayette Fill are copied from the
only original manuscript containing the handwriting of officers
and now known to be in existence.
"Minutes of the proceedings of the miners owning claims
on Lafayette Hill, at a meeting held on said hill on Monday the
10th day of November, 1851, pursuant to a notice calling said
meeting.
"1st: Proposed, seconded and resolved, that T. S. Thompson
be called upon and requested to preside at the meeting.
"2nd: Proposed, seconded and resolved, that G. A. Montgomery be requested to act as secretary.
"8rd: Proposed, seconded and resolved, that each claim on
the hill be eighty feet wide on the ledge, and that each claim
shall be designated by two stakes so placed as to show the width
or side boundaries of each claim; that there shall be no boundaries as to the length of claims; that each person may follow
the ledge found on his claim, withall its dips, depths, and angles,
so that he does not interfere with claim or claims that may be
next to his side boundaries, each claim to have a third stake
placed between the other two with the initials of the owner
and the number of the claim cut or marked thereon.
"4th: Proposed, seconded and resolved, that Serrie Lavanche, the discoverer, be entitled to two claims,
"Sth: Proposed, seconded and resolved that a recorder be
appointed for Lafayette Hill, who shall keep a book in which he
shall enter from time to time, as persons may desire, the name
of the person having a claim on the hill, and the number of their
claims; and that any person owning a claim, when he sells the
same, shall give to the purchaser a bill of sale duly witnessed
and the recorder, upon production of said bill of sale, shall
make an entry of such transfer, no sale to be considered valid
and complete until entered in the recorder's books. The recorder shall be entitled to one dollar for the original entry and fifty
cents for the transfer.
"6th: Proposed, seconded.and resolved, that persons holding
claims on Lafayette Hill and having the same duly recorded
shall be entitled to hold until the first day of July next, without
doing work or leaving tools thereon.
"7th: Proposed, seconded and resolved, that Geo. A. Montgomery be chosen and appointed recorder of Lafayette Hill.
(To be continued next week)