4th. Any person can hold one claim by location, and any number by purchase. 5th. Claims must have a centre stake, with number of claim & name of owner thereon. The above laws were passed at a meeting of Miners of Brooklyn Hill this twenty-second (22d) June 1852, NEVADA COUNTY.-NEBOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT. RULES AND REGULATIONS. ART. 1st. That this Hill shall be called Nebold Hill. 2nd. Resolved, that each claim shall be one hundred feet on the ledge with all the dips and angles. 3rd. Resolved, that the claims shall be designated by one stake with the name of the Company or persons holding claims on this Hill. 4th. Resolved, that P. I. Mahoney, Wm. Hagneon, D. L. Luddington, I. I. Ball, F. H. Ball, W. W. Ball, P. Slick, A. L. Hamilton shall be entitled to hold two claims each, as being the first discoverers of this Hill. 5th. Resolved, that the above names shall be entered on the Recorders book as a company and that the company be known as tho Buffalo Mining Company. 6th. Resolved, that no claim shall be forfeited on account of work not being done until one year from this date. 7th. Resolved, that the above rules and regulations be recorded in the Town of Grass Valley, in the Township Recorder's office. A true copy. July 2d 1852 9 o'clock 30 m a. m. Dated JUNE 22, 1852. JOHN DAY Township Recorder. NEVADA COUNTY.-MOUNT OLIVET MINING DISTRICT. REGULATIONS. At a meeting of claimants of said Mount held June 25th '52 the following rules and regulations were agreed to. ART. 1st. That this Hill be known by the name of Mount Olivet. 2d. That one hundred feet square with the dips and angles to be considered a claim on said Hill. 3d. That each man be entitled to locate a claim of 100 feet square by staking with a centre stake with the number of said claim. 4th. Each and every claim shall be recorded in the Township Recorders book with the owners name and number of said claim. 5th. Any man may hold by purchase any number of claims on said Hill, if said claims are found Recorded in the Town Records. 6th. Any person purchasing claims as above specified shall have the transfer recorded on the Town records. 7th. Any man locating and recording a claim, or purchasing any number of claims, shall be allowed to hold the same for six months from the Recording the same without working them. 8th. If any difficulty in regard to the bounds of claims on said Hill shall arise, the same shall be referred to three men to be chosen from the owners of claims on said Hill one to be chosen by Each party, the other by the two chosen 9th. Any person removing or pulling up stakes on said Hill, shall be subject to the penalty on the slide for the same offence. Signed June 25, 1852. AN'D COLE Sec'y. JOHN BROWN Chairman The Mount Olivet Mining Company's Claims commencing on the Southeast corner at Stake No. 1, it being fifty feet north of Stake No. 597 on the slides, running from Stake No. 1, 600 feet northerly to a stake No. 6, thence turning and running Easterly 500 feet to Stake No. 25, thence turning and running southerly 200 feet, then turning and running westerly 400 feet then turning and running southerly 200 feet thence turning and running westerly 200 feet to the first starting point, being staked by centre stakes and numbered from 1 to 26 being twenty six of 100 feet square. GRASS VALLEY June 26, 1852. JOHN BROWN Pres't NEVADA COUNTY.-UNION HILL NO. 2 MINING DISTRICT. Be it known that we the undersigned have this day formed ourselves into a company to be called the Union Quartz Mining Company and have located twenty claims of one hundred feet square each on Union Hill, staked and Recorded at the office of record Grass Valley Claims commencing at the south and west corner, at a stake marked "Union" then running northerly four hundred feet to a stake marked "Union" N, then running East five hundred feet to a stake marked "Unión” E, then running south five hundred feet to a stake marked "Union" S, then running west five hundred feet to the first mentioned stake being twenty claims of one hundred feet square. REGULATIONS. At a meeting of the claimants on Union Hill Grass Valley on the 25th June the following rules and regulations were agreed to for the Government of said Hill. ART. 1st. The name of said Hill to be Union Hill. 2d. That one hundred feet square be allowed for Each Claim on said Hill. 3d. That no man shall locate and hold more than one claim on said in his own name. 4th. That all claims on said Hill shall be recorded in the Town Records within forty eight hours after locating 5th. All claims shall be staked with a centre stake with the number thereon. 6th. Any man may hold one or more claims by purchase if said claims shall have been recorded in the town Records 7th. All claims upon said shall be worked upon or before the first day of December next. 8th. Any man pulling up or removing stakes on said Hill, upon conviction of the same, shall forfeit his claims on said Hill, if any and if not a claimant, shall be punished a agreeably to the laws of Grass Valley for such offence. CHARLES BROWN Sec'y GRASS VALLEY June 25th 1852. JOHN BOUNE Chairman. NEVADA COUNTY.-BUFFALO HILL MINING DISTRICT. LAWS. ART. 1st. A Recorder shall be chosen whose duty it shall be to keep a correct Record of all claims, for which he shall receive one dollar and fifty cents for every transsfer made. 2d. One hundred feet along the ledge including all its dips and angles shall constitute a claim. Each claimant shall be entitled to one claim by occupancy and any number by purchace 3rd. Each claim shall have at least five stakes upon it, one at each corner and the fifth in or near the centre with the name of the claimant and the number thereof. 4th. Every transfer must be made known to the Recorder, and the same transfered upon his Book. 5th. Claims properly recorded and staked shall be valid without work being done, or tools upon it until July 1st 1852. WILLIAM ALLEN Recorder. Transfered to the Book of the Township Recorder this fifteenth day of June 1852. JOHN DAY T. R. At a meeting of the claimants on Buffalo Hill, held this 28th day of June 1852, the above laws were Extended until the first day of January 1853. JOHN DAY Township Recorder. NEVADA COUNTY.-CALEDONIA HILL MINING DISTRICT. LOCATIONS. CALEDONIA HILL LAWS. ARTICLE 1st. This Hill shall be called by the name of Caladonia Hill. 2nd. One hundred feet square on this Hill together with all the dips and and angles on the Run of the Ledge shall constitute a claim. No claim shall be valid untill duly Recorded, in a Book kept for that purpose, by the Recorder of Quartz claims for the Township of Grass Valley, and staked as provided in the article fifth (5th) which stake shall have upon it the number of the claim. 3rd. Any person entitled to hold a mining claim, may hold one by location, on this Hill, and as many as he may purchase in absolute right, subject to the laws and regulations governing the same. 4th. Each claim shall have a stake upon it as near the centre as possible upon which shall be written the number of the claim as provided in article 2nd. 5th. When a claim is transferred by sale or otherwise, the same shall be noted upon the Book of the aforesaid Recorder as in Article 2nd, and it shall be the duty of the owner, to give notice accordingly to the Recorder. 6th. Any person being the holder of a claim, or claims on this Hill, who shall commit a trespass by the removal of stakes, or otherwise on the claim or claims of any other person, shall forfeit all his rights on the Hill, but no one shall be deprived of his right unless Judgment be rendered against him, on due evidence as provided in the next section, and it shall be competent for the party to appeal to a Justice of the Peace. 7th. All disputes between claimants on this Hill, with regard to their several claims, and all cases of trespass, shall be referred to three arbitrators, two of whom shall be practical miners, one to be named by Each party, the third shall be the Recorder. 8th. That the holders on this may have reasonable time, to prepare for properly working the same, it shall not be necessary that work be done, until the 1st day of March 1853, but thereafter work shall be performed by each owner of one or more claims, as often as once in every sixty days unless prevented by sickness or the weather. 9th. All claitus properly staked and Recorded, as provided in these regulations, shall be held without its being necessary to place tools thereon, but work done by a company upon one claim shall prevent forfeiture of any. ART. 1st. This Hill shall be known as Pecker's Hill. ART. 2nd. One hundred feet along the Ledge with all its dips and angles constitute claim. JOHN DAY T. R. ART. 4th. Any person can hold one claim by location, and any number by purchase ART. 5th. Claims must have a centre stake with the name thereon and the number of said claim The above laws were passed at a meeting of the miners of Peckers Hill this twenty-ninth day of June (29th) 1852 E. F. MORSE Presd't GEORGE HALE Secy. NEVADA COUNTY.-POPPYSQUASH HILL MINING DISTRICT. LOCATION, JULY 2, 1852. At a meeting of the company held on this Hill June 30th 1852, the following resolutions were adopted 1st. That this hill shall be called Poppysquash Hill 2d. That one hundred feet NEVADA COUNTY.—PIERCE'S LEDGE MINING DISTRICT. ARTICLE 1st. The Laws of Indiana Hill having Expired on the 1st of July 1852, and not having been renewed the said hill is now located under the name of Pierce's Ledge. ART. 2d. One hundred feet on the Ledge including all its dips and angles shall constitute a full claim. ART. 3. All miners shall be entitled to hold one claim by location and any number by purchase or transfer. ART. 4. To define the boundaries of a claim one stake shall be driven at or near the centre on the Ledge bearing the name of the owner and number. ART. 5th. All claims located on this Ledge must be Recorded with the Township Recorder. ART. 6th. When a claim has been properly staked numbered and recorded it may be held until the first day of Jan'y 1853. Notice. At a meeting of the claim holders on Pierce's Ledge held this 31st day of December 1852 it was Constitution of the Grass Valley Prospecting and Mining Company. I. W. FISH Secy. ARTICLE 1st. This Company shall be called the Grass Valley Prospecting & Mining Company, and shall consist of twenty shares. 2d. The object of this company are to prospect for, and work Quartz Cayote, and placer diggings 3d. There shall be elected by the members of the company on the first Saturday in July of each year, a President Secretary & Treasurer, to serve for the Ensuing year, and until their successors respectively are elected and qualified, it shall be the duty of the President to preside at all meetings of the stockholders; the Secretary shall keep accurate minutes of the doings of the stockholders at all meetings thereof and he shall be the Recorder of all diggings that may be discovered by the company, he shall also prepare all notices of meetings of the Stockholders. The Treasurer shall have charge of all monies paid in by the stockholders on assessments, and of all gold taken out of diggings, until the same can be divided. 4th. The President Secretary & Treasurer shall constitute a Board of Directors, to see that the orders of the stockholders are carried out. The Board may meet whenever the Exigencies of the work requires it, and shall pass upon accounts for work done, or material furnished for the use of the company, and, the President shall make his order, on the Treasurer for the same in favor of the person to whom it is due, and said order shall be countersigned by the Secretary, and registered in a book to be kept by him for that purpose. 5th. The Directors shall have power to Employ some Experienced miner to Superintend the work of prospecting (who shall also make a hand) at reasonable wages, and said foreman shall employ such number of hands as shall be directed by the Stockholders, by vote, but the Stockholders shall have power to discharge said foreman and hands, and also to regulate the price to be paid to them, to be done by vote, at a meeting thereof 6th. The company shall hold a regular meeting for the transaction of business on the evening of the first Saturday in every month, and may meet for the same purpose at any other time, upon the call of the President, or of five members of the company, the notice of the special meetings being posted at some conspicuous place, where the company are at that time prospecting and in one or more public places in Grass Valley. 7th. At the regular meeting of the company in Each month, an assessment shall be laid upon Each share for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the company, not to exceed in the aggregate, the amount necessary for prosecuting the work in hand, or that may be ordered by the Stockholders, until the next meeting, And the secretary shall submit a statement of the amount supposed to be necessary at each meeting of the Stockholders, and if the amount appropriated at any meeting shall not be sufficient to carry on the work as directed a meeting may be called and another appropriation made 8th. Any Stockholder failing to pay his assessment for two weeks after being notified by the Secretary that such assessment has been made shall forfeit his share to the company and the Treasurer shall sell the same at auction, giving three days notice thereof, and the balance remaining if any after paying the assessment shall be paid to the former owner of the share. 9th. Three days notice shall be given of all special meetings of the Stockholders 10th. The company shall have power to make all necessary by-laws and regulations, for the proper carrying out of the objects of the company, and also for the regulations of all diggings which they may strike. 11th. This constitution may be altered by a vote of two-thirds of the Stockholders present at a regular meeting, notice having been given in open meeting at least one month previous to the amendment being proposed. 12th. A Majority of the Stockholders shall be a quorum to transact business Adopted in open meeting July 14th 1852. Bertram Jones, Sec, M. S. Norton Chairman, A. D. Morton, Wesley Averill, W. H. Boud J. B. Ferris, N. L. Gebhart H. H. Hilton, N. Whelan Abram Cole, Andrew Cole W. A. Lamb, J. B. Nutting, Andrew Holmes, Wm Randolph Capt Bowne, Jacob Fisher John Wingerton, William Rogers Thomas Stevenson MINING DISTRICT OF GRASS VALLEY Nevada County California I certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the Constitution of the Grass Valley Prospecting & Mining Company and a correct list of the members BERTRAND JONES Sec. G V. P. & M Co GRASS VALLEY August 7th, 1852. Entered in the book of the Township Recorder this tenth day of November 1852 JOHN DAY Township Recorder NEVADA COUNTY.-SIERRA NEVADA HILL MINING DISTRICT. BY-LAWS. At a meeting of miners of Sierra Nevada Hill convened for the purpose of making regulations and laws, for the government and security of the miners and claims thereon Orange H Dibble was chosen President and Alfred B. Dibble Secretary. David Wasson and Alfred B Dibble was appointed committee to draft and report regulations and laws and the Committee reported as follows. ART. 1st. All that hill with its dips and rise in Grass Valley Township, situate between the tannery and the half-way house on the Nevada road, and about one mile north of Grass Valley on said road, shall be known as Sierra Nevada Hill. 2nd. All claims shall be numbered staked off, and recorded, and transfers of claims, shall be in writing witnessed and recorded in a book of Records. 3d. Any person who shall discover a Quartz Vein or lead on said Hill shall be entitled to have and hold a claim for the discovery of the vein and a claim for working it. 4th. Quartz claims shall be one hundred feet in length, with the depth dip and angles thereof and every such claim shall be staked off and numbered, and the claimant's name and number written or printed thereon. 5th. Quartz claim owners shall work upon the said claims, or cause the same to be worked two days in thirty, and any claim that shall not have been worked in ninety days shall be deem'd abandoned and forfeited. 6th. When several claims are own'd by a company the work upon one of the claims of the company shall have the same effect as though the several claims were severally worked. 7th. No rock or dirt or other obstruction shall be thrown upon the claim or claims of another, without the consent of the owner or owners thereof 8th. Any person who shall not comply with, or who shall violate any of the foregoing laws shall forfeit his claim or claims and the same shall be deemed forfeited and abandoned. ART. 2nd. One hundred feet square shall constitute a claim, no claim shall be valid until duly in the office of the Recorder of Quartz claims for the township of Grass Valley and staked as in Article 4th which stake shall have upon it the number of the claim. ART. 3rd. Any person entitled to hold a mining claim, may hold one by location on this hill, and as many more as he may purchase an absolute right, subject to the laws and regulations governing the same. ART. 4th. Each claim shall have a stake upon it as near the centre as possible, upon which shall be written or marked, the number of the claim as provided in Art. 2nd. ART. 5th. When a claim is transferred by sale or otherwise, the same shall be noted on the Books of the aforesaid Recorder, as in article 2d, and it shall be the duty of the owner, to give notice accordingly to the aforesaid Recorder of Quartz claims for the aforesaid township of Grass Valley. ART. 6th. Any person being the holder of a claim on this hill, who shall commit a trespass by the removal of stakes, on the claim or claims of any other person shall forfeit all his rights on the hill, but no one shall be deprived of his rights, unless judgement shall be rendered against him on due evidence as provided in the next section, and it shall be competent for the party to appeal to a Justice of the Peace. ART. 7th. All disputes between claimants on this hill with regard to claims, and all cases of trespass shall be referred to three arbitrators, two of whom shall be practical miners one to be named by Each party and the third shall be the Recorder. ART. 8th. That all holders of claims on this hill may have reasonable time to prepare for properly working the same it shall not be necessary that work be done until the first day of Jan'y 1853, unless prevented by sickness or the weather. AKT. 9th. All claims properly staked and recorded as provided in these regulations shall be held without its being necessary to place tools thereon, but work done by a company upon one claim, shall prevent forfeiture of any Dated this 21st day of August 1852. STEPHEN BLETHEN Pres'dt, NEVADA COUNTY.—MOUNT PLEASANT MINING DISTRICT. RCLES & REGULATIONS. ART. 1st. Claim's shall be one hundred feet along the course of the ledge with all its dips and angles. ART. 3. The above rules having been complied with, claims will be held good until the first day of June 1853. NEVADA COUNTY.—CONSTITUTION HILL MINING DISTRICT. LOCATIONS & TRANSFERS. Rules and regulations. ART. 1st. This Hill shall be known and recorded in Grass Valley as the Constition Hill. ART. 2nd. One Hundred feet square shall constitute a full claim. ART. 3d. Any person can hold one claim by location and any number by purchase. ART. 4th. A claim to be held must have four corner stakes with a fifth one in the centre with the name of the owner and the number of the claim upon it. ART. 5th. Claims can be held without labor done, or tools left upon them for one year from this date twelfth day of Oct. 1852. Jumped & called Iowa Hill April 17th 1854 NEVADA COUNTY.—CEDAR HILL MINING DISTRICT. LOCATIONS. Rules and regulations. ART. 1st. Resolved at a meeting held this day, that this hill shall be called "Codar Hill”. ART. 2d. That one hundred feet along the lead, with the dip and angles, shall constitute a full claim. ART. 3rd. Any person shall be allowed to hold one claim by location and any number by purchase. ART. 4th. Where a claim has been properly staked and numbered and recorded it can be held without any labor being done on it, or any tools left thereon until the first day of July 1852 ART. 5th. The recorder shall be allowed one dollar for Recording a claim, and fifty cents for a transfer. At a meeting held this day the above laws were extended until the first day of July 1853. Oct 17th 1852. JOHN DAY Recorder. NEVADA COUNTY.-WASHINGTON HILL MINING DISTRICT. LAWS AND REGULATIONS. ARTICLE 1st. This Hill shall be called Washington Hill. 2d. Any person may hold but one claim by location or occupation but any number by purchase, a claim shall be 100 feet square with a stake standing near the centre of said claims, with the number of said claim marked on said stake. 3d. When a claim is so staked and Recorded in the Book of the Grass Valley Township Recorder, it shall be held without tools or work being done on said claims until the fourth day of July 1853. 4th. All transfers shall be recorded in said Record Book. At a meeting of the claim holders on said Hill this fifteenth day of November 1852, the above rules and Regulations were adopted at said meeting. JOSEP T. BARBER Secy. PETER KELLEY Chairman NEVADA COUNTY.-BOSTON HILL MINING DISTRICT. LOCATIONS & TRANSFERS. Rules and regulations. ART. 1st. This Hill shall be called Boston Hill. 2nd. One hundred feet square on the Ledge with all its dips aud angles, shall constitute a full claim. ART. 3. All claims may be held without work done until the first of May 1853. ART. 4. The Claims must be staked and recorded, one stake at each end, and one stake at or near the centre, with the number and name of the owner. At a meeting held this day on the hill J. Crosin in the chair, and I. Finot secretary the above rules were passed and accepted. GRASS VALLEY Nov 21st 1852. Entered Nov 26th 1852. CROSIER |