Lode and Placer Claims; A Manual of Mining Law in the States and Territories of the United States, with Forms - Softcover

Howell, Edward Beach

9781130423501: Lode and Placer Claims; A Manual of Mining Law in the States and Territories of the United States, with Forms

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ISBN 10: 1130423506 ISBN 13: 9781130423501

Publisher: RareBooksClub.com, 2013

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...the foregoing affidavit, when taken before the county recorder or deputy mining recorder, shall be fifty cents; the fee for recording the same when the oath is taken before any other officer authorized to administer oaths shall be fifty cents. Such afi-idavit, or a certified copy thereof in case the original is lost, shall be prima facie evidence of the performance of such labor. The failure to file such affidavit shall be considered prima facie evidence that such labor has not been done. Sec. 7. The location of abandoned claims shall be done in the same manner as if the location were of a new claim; but the locator may, instead of sinking a new discovery shaft, sink the original discovery shaft ten feet deeper than it was at the time of his location, or he may drive the open cut, or tunnel ten feet further along the course of the lead, lode or vein, and must erect new posts or monuments. Sec. 8. No location notice shall claim more than one location, whether the location is made by one or several locators, and if it purport to claim more than one location it is absolutely void. Sec. 9. That section 3103 of the Revised Statutes of Idaho is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 3103. For the convenience of prospectors and locators, the county recorder of the several counties must appoint a deputy at any place where he may deem it necessary, and at all places more than twenty miles distant from an existing office whenever ten or more mining locators interested petition for the appointment of a deputy. Upon failure of any recorder to appoint a deputy for ten days after the petition in writing has been presented to him, the resident miners in such district may appoint temporarily one of their number to act as the recorder for the district,...

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