On Motion the Laws of the District for 1862 to June 16 1866 were then read there by the Secretary. The following Laws were adopted for the government of the District and ordered to be placed on record. to wit.

ARTICLE 1st By Motion of present Meeting, the Names of Palmyra and indian Spring Mining District.

The question put to Motion and carried in favor of the District to be called 'Como Mining. District' and embracing the same boundries as, Palmyra and indian Spring Mining District

ARTICLE 2nd By Motion and vote of present meeting Article 2nd of the old Bylaws. is declared null and void, and in its place the United States Laws, for Claims and location, Past. May 10th 1872. will govern this District.

ARTICLE 3d. Article 3d 4th 5th 6th of the old laws declared null and void

ARTICLE 4th By vote of present Meeting it was declared that the Recorder should be allowed a fee of four ($4.00) dollars for each Claim recorded on the Books

ARTICLE 5th It shall be the duty of the recorder to go on the grounds, with the locator to see that all stakes are properly put in their place, and in case said location is in conflict, with any older location, to inform the same Party's of said adverse claim, and Not to record it. untill authorized by Miners Meeting.

ARTICLE 6th It shall be the duty of the Recorder to keep the Books of Records in a safe place, and open for examination during business hours.

ARTICLE 7th By vote, Article 9th of old Bylaws was ordered retained, this law shall take effect from this date
ARTICLE 8th The Recorder shall have these laws published

E DALE Prest

PAOLO MESSINI
MARTIN LEON
WM ANNIS

I hereby certify that the above is a true and full coppy of the laws passed at a Miners Meeting held in Como July 26th 1879

W. CROWNINSHIELD District Recorder"

LYON COUNTY.-PALMYRA AND INDIAN SPRINGS MINING DISTRICT.*

"MINERS MEETING Aug" 18th 1879

At a called meeting of Miners held in Como Aug 18th 1879, there were present Hon W. J. Westerfield. Park Barnes. John Scott. Wm Brown. J. H. Casehen. Minnie Leslie. John Lothrop. Walter Crowninshield. Henry Fischer Adolph Anderson Jesus Estrada Nimrod Winter J E Bray Jack Godfrey M. L. Johnson The reporter of the Sutro Independent and about 40 others

John Scott was elected President

Park Barnes was elected Secretary

The minutes of the meeting of July 26th were read. when a Motion was made and carried that the Recorder produce the Record Books of the District.

A motion was made and carried that the old name of Palmyra and Indians Springs be substituted for Como Mining District.

A motion was made and carried that the Recorder be authorized to change the Records in all claims affected by the action of changing the District name at the last meeting,

On motion it was declared that all claims heretofore recorded either by the County or District Recorder be legalized.

A motion was made and carried that the boundaries of the old Districts Palmyra and Indian Springs, be inserted in the by laws.

A motion was made and carried that the by laws be adopted as amended.

A motion was made and carried that the District Recorder produce a certified coppy of the Mining Laws signed by the President and Secretary and given to the County Recorder and that the same be published in the Sutro Independent.

A motion was made and carried that the Mining laws be entered in a new set of books.

On motion the proceedings of the Meeting of July 26" were legalized with the exception of the change in the District name.

The boundaries of Palmyra and Indian Springs District are as follows

Palmyra-commencing on the high peak of mountains on the Palmyra Wood company's Ranch, thence running Southerly on the mountains Six miles, thence easterly 6 miles, thence northerly Six miles. thence westerly Six miles to place of beginning.

Note.-May 24, 1869, the Palmyra and Indian Springs Mining Districts were consolidated.

Boundaries of the Indian Springs District

Commencing at an Indian Spring near the Mountain Cos South Stake='Mountain Ledge' and running thence easterly eight miles. thence northerly six miles. thence westerly twelve miles thence Southerly Six miles. thence easterly four miles to place of beginning. I hereby certify that the above is a full and correct coppy of by laws passed at a Miners Meeting held in Como August 18/ 1879 W. CROWNINSHIELD District Recorder"

ORMSBY COUNTY.—EAGLE AND WASHOE VALLEY MINING DISTRICT.

LAWS OF EAGLE AND WASHOE VALLEY MINING DISTRICT.

At an adjourned meeting of the miners of the Eagle and Washoe Valley Mining District to revise the laws of said District, held at Carson City, Saturday, November 9th, 1861, the following laws were unanimously adopted for the government and working of the mines in the District:

ARTICLE 1st. This District shall be known as the Eagle and Washoe Valley Mining District," and shall be bounded as follows, to-wit: Commencing at Rose's Dam on Carson River, thence running northerly along the western line of Gold Hill District to a point directly east of the ridge dividing Washoe and Quick's Valley; thence westerly to the dividing ridge of the main range of mountains; thence southerly to Cleark Creek; thence due east to a point due south of the starting point; thence due north to the place of beginning. And the said Mining District shall not be segregated, or its boundaries interfered with, except by a majority vote at a miners' meeting in the city of Carson; said meeting to be called by the Recorder, after thirty days public notice, at the request of ten or more miners of the district.

ARTICLE 2d. Each claimant shall be entitled to hold, by location, 200 feet on any lead in the District, with all its dips, angles, spurs, offshoots, outcrops, depths, widths, variations, and all the minerals and other valuables therein contained-the discoverer of, and locator on a new lead, being entitled to one claim additional for discovery.

ARTICLE 3d. All claims shall be designated by stakes and notices at each end, and shall be designated by a name, and its locality particularly described.

ARTICLE 4th Surface and hill claims shall be one hundred feet square, and be designated by stakes and notices at each corner. ARTICLE 5th All ravine and gulch claims shall be one hundred feet in length, and in width extending from bank to bank; and be designated by a stake and notice at each end.

ARTICLE 6th. The locators of any lead, lode or ledge, in the district, shall be entitled to hold on each side of the lead, ledge or lode, located by him or them, two hundred feet. Any lateral veins, lodes or leads, bearing minerals within the space of the said two hundred feet, on each side of the main ledge, shall be considered as claimed by and entirely belonging to the locator or locators of a lead, and his or their assigns, and part and parcel of the same mine

ARTICLE 7th. It shall be the privilege of any person, persons or company, when the vein, ledge or lode of mineral is not distinctly traceable upon the surface, to take up the ground they desire to prospect, stating in their notice the manner in which they intend to prospect the same, whether by running a tunnel, cut or drifts, or shafts and the length or depth of such tunnel, cut or drifts or shafts. If the locator or locators, who claim ground for mining purposes, shall declare their intention to run a tunnel into, through or across the Jine of their claim, then it shall be understood that the length of the tunnel which their notice declares it to be their intention of running, shall be and is hereby intended to grant and determine the width of claim located, and no person or persons shall be allowed to locate claims coming within the distance and bounds claimed by such notice of record.

ARTICLE 8th. Any person, or persons, company or companies, who shall locate ground under these laws, shall be entitled to hold and enjoy and receive all the profit of working any and all leads, lodes or ledges of mineral deposits found on and within the limits of their location and claim, by the running of tunnel, cut, shafts or drifts on any part of the ground claimed, which shall be considered as work done upon the claim and if such work amounts to that required by these laws, the title of the ground claimed shall be deemed to rest in the locators and their assigns.

ARTICLE 9th. There shall be a Recorder elected to hold his office for the term of twelve months and it shall be his duty to call all necessary meetings of the miners of the District, to preside thereat, and to keep in a suitable book or books a full and truthful record of all public meetings; to place on Record all claims brought to him for that purpose when such claims shall not interfere with or effect the rights and interests of prior locality, recording the same in the order of their date; for which service he shall receive fifty cents for each claim recorded. He shall also at all times keep his books open for the inspection of the public. He shall have the power to appoint a Deputy to act in his stead, for whose official acts he shall be held responsible.

ARTICLE 10th. All examination of the Record must be made in the full presence of the Recorder or his Deputy, and in no instance shall any person or persons making examination of Records, be permitted to use pen and ink; the Recorder shall furnish to such person or persons a lead pencil, with which memoranda may be made.

ARTICLE 11th. Every claim, whether by individual or company located, shall be recorded within ten days after date of location. ARTICLE 12th. Notice of a claim or location of mining ground by any individual or by a company, on file in the Recorder's office, shall be equivalent to a record of the same.

ARTICLE 13th. Three days' labor shall be done on each claim or on the company's ground for each claim, in order to hold the same. The work so required must be commenced within thirty days after date of record, and fully performed within ninety days after

commencement.

ARTICLE 14th. Whenever work shall have been done within six months from location thereof upon the claims of a company, deemed to be of the value of fifty dollars or upward, to each and every claim, the claims on which such sums shall have been expended, cannot and shall not be subject to a forfeiture and re-location for the term of one year from the date of the last work done.

ARTICLE 15th. Whenever one hundred dollars shall have been expended on each and every claim of a company in this District, the ground so claimed by the company, shall be deemed as belonging in fee to the locators thereof and their assigns and the same shall not be subject to location or re-location by other parties ever after, except by an acknowledged abandonment by the company of the ground. ARTICLE 16th. All claims not worked according to the rules and regulations of the District, shall be subject to forfeiture and

re-location.

ARTICLE 17th. All laws and parts of laws heretofore made in conflict with the spirit and meaning of these laws are hereby repealed. PARKER H. PIERCE, Recorder"

REVISED LAWS OF EAGLE AND WASHOE VALLEY MINING DISTRICT.

CARSON CITY, Nov. 1, 1875. Pursuant to a call published in the Carson Daily APPEAL for thirty days, by A. Waitz, Mining Recorder, of which the following is a true copy, viz:

OFFICE OF THE MINING RECORDER OF EAGLE AND WASHOE VALLEY MINING DISTRICT,
Carson City, Nev., Sept. 27, 1875.

Notice is hereby given that in accordance with Article First of the laws of Eagle and Washoe Valley Mining District, adopted November 9th, 1861, and upon the request of more than ten miners of said district I hereby call a meeting of the miners of the district to be held at my office in Carson City, Nevada, Monday, the First day of November, 1875, at 1 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of considering the repeal of the aforesaid mining laws and adopting the United States Mining Laws, entitled: "An Act to promote the development of the mining resources of the United States," approved May 10, 1872, and the election of a Mining Recorder and all other matters connected with the district. A. WAITZ, Recorder Eagle and Washoe Valley Mining District.

A meeting of the miners of Eagle and Washoe Valley Mining District to revise the laws of said District, was held at the office of said Mining Recorder in Carson City, Nevada, on Monday, November 1st, 1875, at 1 o'clock p. m., and called to order by the Recorder, A. Waitz, who stated the object of the meeting to be to revise and amend the District Mining Laws, so as to accord with the Mining Act of Congress, of May 10, 1872, in relation to the location of mining claims.

J. I. Ayres, on motion, was then elected Chairman and A. Waitz Secretary of the meeting. Messrs. T. D. Edwards, Wirt Hopkins and A. Waitz were appointed to draft a code of laws to govern said district hereafter, who reported the following, which were unanimously adopted:

ARTICLE 1. This District shall be known as the "Eagle and Washoe Valley Mining District," and shall be bounded as follows, to-wit: Commencing at Rose's Dam on Carson River, thence running northerly along the western line of Gold Hill District to a point directly east of the ridge dividing Washoe and Quick's Valley; thence westerly to the dividing ridge of the main range of mountains; thence southerly to Clear Creek; thence due east to a point due south of the starting point; thence due north to the place of beginning. And the said Mining District shall not be segregated, or its boundaries interfered with, except by a majority vote at a miners' meeting in the city of Carson; said meeting to be called by the County Recorder, after thirty days public notice, at the request of ten or more miners of the District.

ARTICLE 2. Any person who is a citizen of the United States or has declared his intention to become a citizen shall be entitled to hold by location a mining claim of fifteen hundred (1500) linear feet along the course of any mineral vein or lode subject to location in this district, with all its dips, angles, spurs, offshoots, outcrops, depths, widths, variations and all the minerals and other valuables contained therein, or an association of persons, severally qualified as above may make joint location of such claim of fifteen hundred feet, but in no event can a location of a vein or lode made subsequent to this date exceed fifteen hundred feet along the course thereof, whatever may be the number of persons composing the association.

ARTICLE 3. The claimant shall, prior to recording his claim, unless the vein can be traced upon the surface, sink a shaft or run a tunnel or drift to a sufficient depth therein to discover and develop a mineral-bearing vein, lode or crevice; shall determine if possible the general course of such vein in either direction from the point of discovery, by which direction he will be governed in making the boundaries of this claim on the surface, and shall give the course and distance as nearly as practicable, from the discovery shaft on the claim, to some permanent, well-known points, or objects, such, for instance, as stone monuments, blazed trees, the confluence of streams, point of intersection of well-known gulches, ravines, or roads, prominent buttes, hills, etc., which may be in the immediate vicinity, and which will serve to perpetuate and fix the locus of the claim and render it susceptible of identification from the description thereof given in the record of locations in the District. In addition to the foregoing data the claimant shall state the names of adjoining claims, or if none adjoin, the relative positions of the nearest claims; shall drive a post or erect a monument of stones at each corner of his surface ground, and at the point of discovery or discovery shaft, shall fix a post, stake or board, upon which should be designated the name of the lode, the name or names of the locators, the number of feet claimed and in which direction from the point of discovery; it being essential that the location notice filed for record, in addition to the foregoing description should state whether the entire claim of fifteen hundred feet is taken on one side of the point of discovery, or whether it is partly on one and partly on the other side thereof; and in the latter case how many feet are claimed upon each side of said discovery point.

ARTICLE 4. No location of a placer-claim hereafter made shall exceed one hundred and sixtycres for an association of persons consisting of no less a number than eight bona fide locators, and all placer-mining claims hereafter located shall conform as near as practicable with the United States system of public-land surveys, and the rectangular subdivisions of such surveys, and no such location shall include more than twenty acres for each individual claimant. All placer or surface claims shall be worked within ten days after there is sufficient water to successfully work the same.

ARTICLE 5. All ravine and gulch claims shall be one hundred feet in length, and in width extending from bank to bank; and be designated by a stake and notice at each end.

ARTICLE 6. The locators of any lead, lode or ledge, in the District, shall be entitled to hold on each side of the middle of the lead, ledge or load, located by him or them, three hundred feet.

ARTICLE 7. It shall be the privilege of any person, persons or company, when the vein, ledge or lode of mineral is not distinctly traceable upon the surface, to take up the ground they desire to prospect, stating in their notice the manner in which they intend to prospect the same, whether by running a tunnel, cut or drifts, or shafts and the length or depth of such tunnel, cut, shafts or drifts. If the locator or locators, who claim ground for mining purposes, shall declare their intention to run a tunnel into, through or across the the line of their claim, then it shall be understood that the length of the tunnel which their notice declares it to be their intention of running, shall be and is hereby intended to grant and determine the width of claim located, and no person or persons shall be allowed to locate claims coming within the distance and bounds claimed by such notice of record.

ARTICLE 8. Any person or persons, company or companies, who shall locate ground under these laws, shall be entitled to hold and enjoy, and receive all the profit of working any and all leads, lodes or ledges of mineral deposits found on and within the limits of their location and claim, not previously known to exist or legally claimed, by the running of tunnel, cut, shafts or drifts on any part of

the ground claimed, which shall be considered as work done upon the claim, and if such work amounts to that required by these laws, the title of the ground claimed shall be deemed to rest in the locators and their assigns.

ARTICLE 9. The distinct office of Mining Recorder in this district is abolished from and after this date and in lieu thereof the County Recorder of Ormsby County shall hereafter be ex-officio the Mining Recorder of this district and it shall be his duty to call all necessary meetings of the miners of the District, to preside thereat, and to keep in a suitable book or books a true and faithful record of all public meetings; to place on record all claims brought to him for that purpose, when such claims shall not interfere with or affect the rights and interests of prior locality, recording the same in the order of that date, returning to the locator a certificate of record, of said claim, giving the book and page of said record, for which services he shall receive Three dollars for each notice recorded. He shall also at all times keep his books open for the inspection of the public. He shall have the power to appoint a Deputy to act in his stead, for whose official acts he shall be held responsible.

ARTICLE 10. All examination of the Records must be made in the full presence of the Recorder or his Deputy, and in no instance shall any person or persons making examination of Records, be permitted to use pen and ink; the Recorder shall furnish to such person or persons examing the Records a lead pencil, with which memoranda may be made.

ARTICLE 11. Every claim, whether by individual or company located, shall be recorded within twenty days after date of location. ARTICLE 12. Notice of a claim or location of mining ground by any individual or by company, on file in the County Recorders office shall be equivalent to a record of the same.

ARTICLE 13. Three days labor shall be done on cach claim or on the company's ground for each claim of Fifteen hundred feet, in order to hold the same. The work so required must be commenced within thirty days after date of location and fully performed within ninety days after commencement. And provided further: that in order to hold the possessory right to a claim of fifteen hundred feet of a vein or lode located as aforesaid, not less than one hundred dollars worth of work shall be performed or improvements made thereon during each year, in default of which the claim will be subject to re-location by any other party having the necessary qualifications, unless the original locator, his heirs assigns or legal representatives have resumed work thereon after such failure and before such re-location.

ARTICLE 14. All claims not worked according to the rules and regulations of the District shall be subject to forfeiture and re-location. ARTICLE 15. All laws and parts of laws heretofore made in conflict with the spirit and meaning of these laws are hereby repealed. J. I. AYRES, Chairman. Attest:

A. WAITZ, Secretary.

LANDER COUNTY.-REESE RIVER MINING DISTRICT.

BY-LAWS OF THE REESE RIVER MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA TERR. MADE AND ADOPTED THIS 10TH DAY OF MAY 1862.

SECTION 1st Boundaries of the Reese River Mining District as follows, to wit commencing at the west at Edwards Creek, extending to Dry Creek on the East and embracing a distance of ten miles on each side of the Telegraph Line.

SECTION 2nd That all mining claims shall consist of Two Hundred Feet, the discoverer to be entitled to an extra two hundred feet SECTION 3 Each claim when located shall have a written notice placed on such claim and within ten days after such claim shall be located said claim shall be recorded by recorder of said district.

SECTION 4th That the said recorder shall be entitled to the sum of two dollars for each claim recorded.

SECTION 5th That all claims shall be represented by two days labor being performed on said claim every month from time of

location.

SECTION 6th All persons owning claims and neglecting their claim for two months, shall be considered an abandonment of said

claims.

SECTION 7th Any person wishing to substitute a person to attend for them, they shall have the power or right so to do.

SECTION 8th That any person owning claims in said District and wishing to represent the same for two months, they may do so by performing five days labor on the same.

SECTION 9th That water power can be taken up by posting notice on same, specifying for what purpose such water shall be claimed for and by performing two days labor monthly on same to entitle claimants to hold the same.

SECTION 10th That a recorder shall be elected for one year from the time of his election.

At a meeting held by the miners of the Reese River Mining District, at the Reese River station on Saturday May 10th 1862. The above laws were made and adopted

AUGUSTUS CLAPP Secretary

FELIX O'NEIL President

A meeting of the miners and inhabitants of Reese River Mining District was held at Jacobs Ranch on Thursday July 17th 1862.

Mr G. W. Jacobs called the meeting to order and nominated Mr A. J. Hewitt for president or chairman and Mr J. B. Marshall for secretary-carried.

Mr G. W. Jacobs moved that the chair appoint a committee of three, to draft a set of laws and regulations for the government of the Reese River Mining District and to report the same to the meeting for its consideration Adopted.

The chair appointed Mr J. R. Jacobs, Mr J. B. Marshall and Mr Wm Talcott as the committee, who retired and through their chairman Mr J. B. Marshall reported.

Mr Wilson moved that the Preamble, Laws and Regulations, reported from the Committee be adopted. Carried unanimously.

Mr J. Towne nominated Mr Wm Talcott for Recorder for one year. Carried unanimously
Adjourned.

J. B. MARSHALL Secretary.

A. J. HEWITT chairman

PREAMBLE.

Whereas. It has been the practise, custom and priviledge of miners and those interested in mines, to form Mining Districts, specifying the boundaries of the same, and making laws, rules and regulations for the location, holding and working of mines, and. Whereas, The miners and others interested in mining in this (Reese River) District, did assemble, in said District, on the 10th day of May 1862, and passed a few laws by which the District should be governed, and,

Whereas. It has been generally conceded that the rules and regulations heretofore existing, are defective in form, and insuflicient to secure, in a proper manner, the important interests which may grow up through a thorough development of the mines of this District, and

Whereas. In the absence of laws made by the General Government properly applicable and suitable to encourage and protect the rights and interest of those who search for, discover, locate, hold and work mines, it becomes necessary on the part of miners and those interested in mining,

1st To originate and agree upon such rules and regulations as they desire for their government.

2nd To encourage a full and fair prospecting of the mining grounds in this District

3rd To encourage their due and proper exploration and developement, after discovery and location.

4th To obviate disputes and conflict of title between claimants of mining ground and prevent any and all interference therewith 5th To do all things which tend to the security, stability, development, and thorough working and active advancement of the mining interests of this District.

6th To make it safe for capitalists and enterprising men to invest money in mining grounds and mining stocks, in the erection of machinery and in giving extensive employment to labor.

Now therefore be it

Resolved; that the mining rules heretofore existing in this District, be and the same are repealed.

Resolved. That the Rules Regulations and Mining Laws hereto attached and following, be and they are adopted as the Rules, Regulations and mining Laws of this District, and that they are henceforth or until their repeal or alteration, to be relied upon as governing locators and workers of mines and all other persons within the limits of this District.

MINING LAWS OF THE REESE RIVER MINING DISTRICT

SECT 1. The District shall be known as the Reese River Mining District and shall be bounded as follows, On the North by a distance of ten miles from the Overland Telegraph Line, on the East by Dry Creek, on the South by a distance ten miles from the Overland Telegraph Line and on the West by Edwards Creek.

SECT 2nd The Officers of this District shall consist of a President, Secretary and Recorder, elected by those taking part in these proceedings and shall hold their respective offices for the term of one year from the date of the Election

SECT 3rd It shall be the duty of the President to call all necessary meetings of the miners of this District to preside thereat, and to discharge the duties pertaining to said office.

stead.

SECT 4th In the absence of the President from the District, or his inability to act, it shall be the duty of the Recorder to act in his

SECT 5th It shall be the duty of the Recorder to keep in a suitable book or books, a full and truthful record of the proceedings of all public meetings, to place on record all claims brought to him for that purpose, when such claim shall not interfere with, or affect the rights and interests of prior locators, recording the same in the order of their date, for which service he shall receive fifty cents for each claim recorded and fifty cents per folio for recording the transfer. bill of sale, or deed of, and to any mining property. It shall also be the duty of the Recorder to keep his books open at all times to the inspection of the public, he shall also have the power to appoint a deputy to act in his stead, for whose official acts, he shall be held responsible.

SECT. 6th All examinations of the record must be made in the full presence of the Recorder or his deputy.

SECT 7th Notice of a claim or location of a mining ground by any individual or by a company, on file in the Recorders office shall be deemed equivalent to a record of the same.

SECT 8th Each claimant shall be entitled to hold by location 200 feet on any lead in the District, with all its dips spurs and angles, offshoots, outcrops, depths widths, variations, and all the minerals and other valuables therein contained, the discoverer of, and locator of a new lead being entitled to one claim extra for discovery.

SECT 9th The locators of any lead ledge or lode in the District shall be entitled to hold, on each side of the lead, ledge or lode located by him or them, two hundred feet, any lateral veins, lodes or leads, bearing minerals, within the space of the said two hundred feet on each side of the main ledge shall be considered as claimed by and entirely belonging to the locator and locators of a lead and his or their assigns, and part or parcel of the same mine

SECT 10th It shall be the priviledge of any person, persons, or company, when the vein ledge or lode of mineral is not distinctly traceable upon the surface, to take up the ground they desire to prospect, stating in their notice the manner in which they intend to prospect the same, whether by running a tunnel, cuts and drifts or shafts, and the length or depth of such tunnel cut or shafts and drifts. If the locator or locators who claim ground for mining purposes shall declare their intention to run a tunnel, into, through or across the line of their claim, then it shall be understood that the length of the tunnel which their notice declares it to be their intention of running shall be and is hereby intended to grant, and determine the width of claim located; and no person or persons shall be allowed to locate claims coming within the distance and bounds claimed by such notice of record.

SECT 11th Any person or persons, company or companies, who shall locate ground under these laws, shall be entitled to hold and enjoy, and receive all the profit of working any and all leads lodes or ledges of mineral deposits, found on and within the limits of their location and claim, by the running of tunnel cut or shafts and drifts, on any part of the ground claimed, which shall be considered as work done upon the claims and if such work amounts to that required by these laws, the title of the ground claimed shall be deemed to vest in the locators and their assigns

SECT 12th Every claim (whether by individual or by company) located, shall be recorded within ten days after the date of location SECT 13th That all claims heretofore or shall be hereafter recorded in this District shall hold good until the 1st day of June 1863, without further labor being expended on said claims, and if work be not commenced on said claims on the 4th day of June 1863, they shall be considered as abandoned and subject to relocation.

SECT 14th Whenever one thousand dollars shall have been expended on claims of a company, the ground so claimed by the company shall be deemed as belonging in fee to the locators thereof and their assigns and the same shall not be subject to location or relocation by other parties ever after, except by an acknowledged abandonment, by the company, of the ground

SECT 15. The Recorder shall go upon the ground with any and all parties desiring to locate claims, and shall be entitled to receive for such service, say for a company location of ten or more names, five dollars and for each location numbering less than ten names fifty cents each.