NEVADA COUNTY.-NORTON'S HILL MINING DISTRICT.

CONSTITUTION AND LAWS.

At a meeting of the claim holders of the Quartz Ledge known by the following name the annexed constitution and by laws were unanimously adopted.

ARTICLE 1st. This Company shall be known as the Norton Ledge Company.

2d. One Hundred feet on the Ledge together with its dips depths and angles shall constitute a claim.

3d. The location of each claim shall be designated by one stake driven in the centre of the claim or as near as can be with the initials of the name of the Ledge and the number written thereon.

4th. The company shall consist of sixteen claimants and no addition to the number of claimes shall be made without a two-thirds vote of the same in the affirmative

5th. These laws can be altered or amended by a vote of two thirds of the company at any meeting after due notice having been given. 6th. These laws shall be recorded on the Township Records.

7th. These claims shall hold good without being work'd or tools left on them till the first day of July 1853

JAMES M. CAMPBELL, Sec.

GRASS VALLEY Dec 9th 1852.

M. S. NORTON Presd

MAY 10 1854

The same constitution and laws adopted and the claims to be held until May 1 1855 without work.
Resolution adopted by the Grass Valley Company

JOHN DAY, Recorder.

NEVADA COUNTY.-EMPIRE HILL NO. 1 MINING DISTRICT.

LAWS.

ARTICLE 1. A Recorder shall be appointed whose duty it shall be to keep a record of all claims taken up on this Hill. 2nd. The claim allowed each person upon this Hill shall be one Hundred feet square, on which there must be placed one stake on cach corner and one stake in the centre with the owners name and number upon it.

ART. 3d. All claims taken up on this Hill must be duly recorded for which the Recorder shall receive one dollar and all claims sold or transferd must be entered on the books of the Recorder for the the Recorder shall be entitled to fifty cents.

4th. No person shall be entitled to more than one claim by occupancy but may hold as many as he may purchase by having the same transferd.

5th. The claims on this Hill may be held without labor or tools until the first day of January 1853.

T. S. THOMPSON, Recorder,

Notice.
At a meeting held pursuant to a call by the claim holders on Empire Hill, it was unanimously,
Resolved, To Extend the Rules & Regulations of said Hill for one year from the first day of January 1853.

H. J. MILLER, Sec.

GRASS VALLEY Jan 1, 1853.

I. I. MONETE,

At a meeting of the miners of Empire Hill held on the first day of January 1854, it was unanimously,
Resolved, That the Laws of said Hill should be extended, and remain in full force until the first day of January 1857.
GRASS VALLEY Jan 1 1854

NEVADA COUNTY.—KOSKIUSKO (sic) HILL MINING DISTRICT.

The following Laws and Regulations were unanimously adopted.

ARTICLE: 1st. This Ledge shall be known as Kosciusko Ledge.

ART. 21. The company shall consist of twelve shares of one hundred feet each on the Ledge with its dips depths and angles
ART. 3d. All claims shall be held and transfers made agreeable to the Laws of the Nevada County Quartz Convention held at Nevada
City Dec. 24th last.

ART. 4th. These Laws shall be duly recorded on the Records by the Deputy Recorder at Grass Valley.
A. BOGGS, Sec.

GRASS VALLEY January 1 1853

NEVADA COUNTY.-BEN FRANKLIN LEDGE MINING DISTRICT.

STILES Pres

ARTICLE, 1st. This Ledge shall be known as the Ben Franklin Ledge and shall be recorded as such in the Books of the Township Recorder. ART. 2d. Claims on this Ledge shall be one hundred feet on the Ledge with all its dips depths and angles.

3d. All claims must be Recorded with in three days from date of their location, and to be properly staked must have one stake with the name of the owner, and number of the claim upon it in the centre, and two end stakes as near on the course of the ledge as may have been ascertained.

4th. Claims on this ledge may be held for one year, from the discovery of the Ledge, say from the 28th of January 1853 to the 28th Jan'y 1854.

At a meeting of the claim holders held this day upon Ben Franklin Ledge the above Laws and regulations were unanimously adopted. THO'S. S. TOMPSON, Sec.

Jan 28th 1853.

NEVADA COUNTY.-JEFFERSON LEDGE MINING DISTRICT.

LOCATION & TRANSFERS.

Rules and regulations.

(vide post.)

ARTICLE 1st. This Ledge shall be known and recorded in the books of Grass Valley as the Jefferson Ledge.

2d. 100 feet on the Ledge with all its dips, depths and angles shall constitute a full claim.

3d. Claims to be properly defined should have the owner's name upon the centre stake, which should be placed as near on the line of the Ledge as may have been ascertained.

4th. Claims in order to be held should be recorded within three days from time of location.

5th. One claim on this ledge can be held by location but any number by purchase Except the discoverer who shall be entitled to two claims.

6th. Claims on this ledge may be held one year without work being done on them, or tools being left upon the ground, say from 25th day of Feb'y 1853, to the 25th day of Feb'y 1854

At a meeting held by the claim owners the above Rules and Regulations were unanimously adopted. HENRY BARRETT, Sec. BOSTON RAVINE Feb'y 25, 1853

NEVADA COUNTY.-PYRENEES HILL MINING DISTRICT.

ART. 1st. This hill shall shall be known as Pyrenees Hill.

LAWS.

ART. 2d. One hundred feet along the Ledge with all its dips angles and variations shall constitute a full claim.
ART. 3d. Claims on this Hill may be held without work done or tools left thereon until the first day of May 1853.
ART. 4th. Each person is entitled to one claim by location and to any number by purchase.

ART. 5th. The Recorder of this Hill shall be Capt. John Day by a meeting of the Miners of the Above named Hill.

J. FIQUIER Sec.

Entered this twenty third day of Sept. 1853

B. DORDAN Chairman.

JOHN DAY Recorder.

NEVADA COUNTY.-IONE LEDGE MINING DISTRICT.

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

ART. 1st. This Ledge shall be known as Ione Ledge

ART. 20. Claims on this Ledge shall be one hundred feet on the ledge with all its dips and angles.
ART. 3d. That the laws stand good for two years from this date.

By a meeting of the claim holders on the Hill August 24th 1854, the above laws were adopted.
GRASS VALLEY.

NEVADA COUNTY.-MADISON QUARTZ LEDGE & HILL MINING DISTRICT. Agreeable to previous notice a meeting of Claim Holders was held on Madison Quartz Hill.

On motion of B B Layton and Seconded by J. R. Rusk, G. H. G. Stackhouse was called to the chair as president and J. R. Rush as Secretary

The object of the meeting being stated by the Chairman the following Preamble & Resolutions presented and adopted.

Preamble, Whereas the Book of Record of this Hill, has been lost or mislaid,

ART. 1. Therefore Resolved, That the name of Madison Quartz Hill be continued

Resolved That each Claim shall be One Hundred feet square, that

ART. 2. Each claim shall have a centre stake with the name of Locator and number thereon.

Resolved, That the Nevada County Mining Laws adopted in Convention at Art 3 Nevada City in Dec 1852 the same be adopted for the government of this hill.

Resolved, On motion of W Layton that this meeting do adjourn at 4.

Grass Valley Township Aug 18 1855.

J. R. RUSH, Secretary.

I certify the above to be a true copy

GRASS VALLEY Sept 13, 1855.

G. W. G. STACKHOUSE Chairman

A DELANO Recorder

NEVADA COUNTY.-HOOSAC HILL MINING DISTRICT.

ART. 1st. This hill shall be known as Hoosac Hill.

LOCATIONS.

The constitution and by-laws.

ART. 2. All claims shall be recorded in the Recorders Book at Grass Valley.
ART. 3d. No claim shall be valid unless Recorded within ten days after location.
1th. All claims shall be held good for six months without work.

5th. Each claim shall contain hundred feet with all the dips and angles.

6th. Each claim shall have the owners name with the number on the stake. 7th. No man shall hold more than one claim without purchase.

8th. The discoverers are entitled to one claim.

9th. This company shall be known as the Munroe Company.

WM. COOK Sec.

JOHN SHAW President

NEVADA COUNTY.-RHODE ISLAND HILL MINING DISTRICT.

RULES & REGULATIONS.

ART. 1st. The size of a claim shall be one hundred feet square, and shall be designated by four corner stakes and a fifth one to which shall bear the two first letters of the owner's name and the number of the claim.

ART. 2. Any person can hold one claim by occupancy and any number by purchase.
ART. 3. Each claim or claims shall be worked one bona fide day in ten and if not worked in thirty shall be forfeited.
ART. 4th. Any company holding any number of claims shall hold the whole number by working one.

ROB'T CRANDALL Sec

WM. COLEY Presdt.

NEVADA COUNTY.-SEBASTIPOOL LEDGE MINING DISTRICT.

LAWS.

ART. 1st. This ledge shall be called Sebastipool Ledge & certificates of claims headed accordingly
ART. 2d. One hundred feet on the Ledge with all the dips depths and angles shall constitute one full claim
ART. 3d. Holders of Claims on this Ledge shall be entitled to hold the same without work or tools until Jany 1st 1860.

El Dorado County, Greenwood.-No written laws now in force. All locations have been made under the act of May 10. 1872.

Placer County, Dutch Flat.-No records to be found

Placer County, Auburn.—The old mining laws are lost or destroyed.

Placer County, Yankee Jim's.-Copies of the old mining laws are in existence, but are unobserved.

Placer County, Bath.-The old mining laws are not to be found, and are in disuse.

Placer County, Forest Hill.-The District is bounded on the North by Shirt-Tail Cañon, South by Middle Fork of the American River, East by Bath District, West by Todd's Valley & Yankee Jim's District. The mining laws have been burned.

Placer County, Iowa Hill.-The mining laws have not been in use, nor has organization been kept up since about 1865. The district is popularly supposed to comprise all the country from the North Fork of the American River to Shirt Tail Cañon and the head of El Dorado Cañon.

Butte County, Thompson's Flat District.-Organized in 1851. The books were lost in 1857. There has been no recorder since.

Butte County, Bidwell's Bar District.-Organized in 1850 and reorganized in 1863. Original laws and records destroyed in fire of 1854. The second organization in 1863 was on account of the copper excitement. The laws passed at that time have also been lost.

COLORADO.

GILPIN COUNTY.—BAY STATE MINING DISTRICT.

The following laws were adopted by the miners at a regular meeting held in and for the Bay State Mining District on Thursday the 19th day of July A. D. 1859

LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF THE BAY STATE MINING DISTRICT.

A N. PARSON Secretary

SECTION 1 This district shall commence at the mouth of the North Fork of Clear Creek and extend up the same to the month of the Russel Gulch so called and be known and called by the name of Bay State Mining District including the tributaries of said Creek SEC. 2 Each Gulch Claim shall consist of one hundred feet running parallel with the creek and extend from hill to bill on either

side

SECTION 3 No person shall be allowed to hold more than one claim by right of Discovery or what is more generally called taken by prospecting but any person or persons buying a claim or claims shall be entitled to hold the claims so bought

SECTION 4 Any person taking a claim and posting up a notice with name and date shall be allowed to hold the same for ten days without risk of forfeiture by recording

SECTION 5 Auy person taking a claim and commencing work on the same and then leaving then leaving the claim with tools or other goods on the claim shall be entitled to hold the same ten days without risk of forfeiture

SECTION 6 Any person or persons owning or holding Mining Claims in this District shall be allowed to leave the same on and after the 23rd day of July A. D. 1860 and return to them or send their legal representative on or before the 15th day of June A. D. 1861

SECTION 7 No person or persons at any regular or special meeting concerning the mining interest of this District shall be allowed to vote unless they own or hold claims in this District

SECTION 8 All disputes in regard to mining claims or mining interests shall be settled by Arbitrators chosen by the parties or by the miners at any regular or special meeting

SECTION 9 There shall be a President and one or more vice presidents appointed who shall preside at all regular meetings and in the absence of the President any of the vice presidents shall preside

SECTION 10 There shall be a secretary appointed whose duty it shall be to be present at all regular meetings and who shall have the custody of all books and papers belonging to or appertaining to the miners of this District

SECTION 11 There shall be a recorder appointed whose duty it shall be to record all mining claims when applied to for that purpose and to give a certificate of the same and for recording aud giving such certificate the Recorder shall be allowed fifty cents for each and every claim

SECTION 12 Every person or persons having a claim or claims recorded shall describe the same as lying on the North Fork of Clear Creek within the Bay State Mining District and bounded by the claims above and below by giving the names of the owners of the same and when two or more claims are taken together they shall be numbered from one upward by commencing at the lowest claim on the creek

SECTION 13. Where two or more persons are desirous of working together for convenience or otherwise and said persons own claims in Different places in this District it shall be lawful for either of said parties to leave their claims for the purpose of working as aforesaid by posting up on some conspicuous place on the claim or claims so left a written notice where the owner of the claim or claims may be found The following amendment was made to the Regulations

AMENDMENT TO SEC. 6. By recording a claim it will hold good for ten days without risk of forfeiture

SECTION 14. Water claims shall be two hundred and fifty feet up and down the creek for mill purposes but in no case shall conflict with miners claims

SECTION 15 Any person holding a water claim shall not be prevented from holding a miners claim

SECTION 16 Any person discovering a Quartz lead shall be entitled to one hundred feet for discovery and a miners claim besides July 14 1860 section 2 amended to read as follows

Each gulch claim shall consist of one hundred feet running parallel with the creek and extending from hill to hill ou either side Section 3 to read

No person shall hold more than one gulch claim one patch or Mill Claim and one Lead claim by right of discovery or what is more generally called taken by prospecting but any person or persons bying a claim or claims shall be entitled to hold the same in the same manner as other personal property

Section 10 Repealed and duties imposed on Recorder

SECTION 17 It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to cut any timber or trees upon any claim or claims owned by other parties without the consent of the owner of such claim or claims

SECTION 18 It shall not be lawful for any person to throw any brush or other rubbish in the creek to the damage of other miners SECTION 19 A lode claim shall be fifty feet wide by one hundred feet in length extending along the lode and a patch or mill claim shall be one hundred feet running parallel with the creek and extending from the base of the hill to the top of the same but all patch or hill claims shall be subject to any Quartz claims that have or may be discovered upon said patch or Mill claims

SECTION 20 Any man can hold a discovery claim of each kind by working one of them

SECTION 21 No person or persons shall locate a water claim upon the claims of miners without the written consent of the owners of such mining claim or claims

At an adjourned meeting held this day the following resolution was adopted

August 11 1860

Resolved The order of recording a claim title shall be when presented for record, the pro emptor shall present a certificate of his claim with a description of the same and when the title is acquired by purchase he shall present the deed which instrument the Recorder shall copy into a book kept for that purpose and shall file on the back of said instrument the hour of the day the day of the month and the year when such instrument was presented for record and the page of the book where recorded and return the instrument to the owner

The following named persons were chosen a committee to hear and decide disputes in regard to claims Charles Allen John Huntington William Elwick Mr Runolds David Haines

Section 3 amended to read

Any person owning or holding mining claims in this District shall after having them duly recorded hold them as a vested right the same as real estate is held in this District

SECTION 22 The President shall have power to appoint two men and those two shall appoint one other man and the three shall settle the difficulty existing between the miners to which they was chosen to settle from which there shall be no appeal. When the President has a difficulty then the Vice President shall appoint in the same manner

SECTION 23 It shall be the privilege of any miner or miners to take out the water out of North Clear Creek in a ditch or flume around any mans claim or over his claim for the purpose of washing dirt on the hill side hydraulic power or slicing not interfering the claims passing thereover

SECTION 24 The above laws shall not be repealed unless two thirds of the miners in said District shall concur therein or there shall be a majority of two thirds

SECTION 25 The President shall call the district together upon the written request of five miners of said District the President giving three days notice in writing posted up in three of the most public places or the President and Vice-President shall have the same power giving the same notice

SECTION 26 All meetings of the District shall be held at the Residence of W. T. Carey

SECTION 27 All persons that own claims in this district that are absent since the 30th of September A. D. 1860 recorded sold or transferred or not recorded all such claims shall be considered void unless they have friends or agents in this District to represent their claims all such agencies shall be recorded in five days after the passage of this article or law

SECTION 2 Section 7 was so amended as to read that all citizens of this District shall be entitled to vote at all meetings SECTION 29 Resolved that it shall be unlawful for any man or men to preempt a claim or claims for any man or men known or believed to be in the states all kind of claims whatever all such claims shall be void

SECTION 29 There shall be five citizens of said District chosen to settle all difficulties in regard to mining interests the opponents are to choose two persons out of said committee and if those two cannot agree the third person shall be chosen out of the committed by the two that are already chosen and if either of the parties are dissatisfied with the decision they can appeal to the miners of the District and from their decision there shall be no appeal.

The committee that was chosen consists of the following persons J. M. Stewart M. L. Turner J. L. Willson R. Crummel W. T. Reynolds

SECTION 30. Resolved That all the laws of Gregory District be adopted except the law relating to Jury. It was passed that there should be six jurors before said Justice and they should be twelve names writ down by the Justice and from those twelve the six should be chosen in the following manner the Defendant shall strike out the first name and then the Plaintiff shall strike out one and if either or both refuse to strike out the Justice shall do it for them until there is but six remaining and the six remaining shall be the jurors from which there shall be no appeal the party calling the jury shall depost with the Court the jury fees iu money which shall be one d'élar and fifty cents in cash to each Juror in case no Jury is called the Court shall try the cause.

I certify the above law to be correct the law that was adopted was past in Gregory District February 18 & 20 A D., 1860

J. S. STONE Judge of the Miners Court
M. STORUNS Recorder

II. L. GRAHAM Recorder of Bay State District

AUGUST 6 1861

BOULDER COUNTY.—GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT.—[LAWS OF 1859]
MINERS MEETING OF MOUNTAIN DISTRICT NO 1 IN NEBRASKA
Meetings of the assembly of Dis. No 1

Saturday July 23rd 1859 meetings according to order of Pres at Gibbs-Callen

Meetings called to order by the Pres.

On motion E. S. Glotfetter there appointed sec.-protem.

Motioned that each canditate for secretary Declare himself as such publicly whereupon G. S. Barnett. Wiley Runch & P. M. Housel did so.

After a considerable speaking G. S. Barnett was Elected sectreary of Mountain Dis. No 1.

On motion that the fees of recorder were reduced to Twenty five cents

On motion a committee was appointed to Revise the present & make such Amendments as were deemed expedient

Committee consisted of P. M. Housel, Mr Weeks, E. S. Glotfetter J. D. Scott & Wiley Runch

On motion that D. C. McCoy be appointed constable & adopted.

On motion meetings adjourned to meet Saturday July 30th '59 on scattis Lead for the purpose of recieving the committees report on the revising of the Laws and such amendments as they thought expedient to make Adjourned. E. S. GLOTFETTER Sec. protem.

Minuts of the meeting of the miners of Mountain dis. No 1 held July 30th 1859.

In pursuance to agreement of a meeting held in the gulch July 23 '59, the Pres. being in the chair called the meeting to order.

Minuets of the last meeting being called for the secretary was granted leave to amend them

On motion P. M. Housel was appointed sec. pro tem for the present meeting.

On motion the committee called to report, P. M. Housel foreman came forward & read said report of committee