Pursuant to notice of which the foregoing is a copy a miners meeting convened at the Barcelona mine in Spanish Belt on the 31st day of Dec A D 1874 at 12 o'clock A. M. Whereupon it was moved & seconded that the meeting adjourn until January 1st 1875 at 9 o'clock A. M. for the purpose of determining upon the proper & best place of organization, which motion was adopted SPANISH BELT January 1st 1875 The meeting was called to order by H. A. Gaston who moved that Geo Nichols act as Chairman of the meeting which motion was adopted-& on motion of M. San Pedro, H. A. Gaston was elected Secretary— The following named gentlemen mine owners & miners interested in the proposed new mining dis't were present to wit-Peter Rice-C. W. Hollis-J. B. Hollis-M. San Pedro-Geo Curschman-Wm McCame—J. McCame-L. Sota-G. Nicholl-Jos Castano-L. Fidanzo-M. C. Booth-Jos Silva-M. Gonzalez-H. A. GastonEsteban Foreste On motion of the Sect'y the meeting was resolved into a Committee of the Whole to consider a code of laws for the government of the proposed new Dist which code was presented by the Sect'y which was accordingly done Geo Nicholl presiding in committee-The com considered the said code by sections recommended the adoption of the same as amended arose, & the meeting proceeded to business-G Nicholl in the chair-Whereupon it was moved by the Sect'y that the following code of laws, as recommended by the Committee of the Whole bo adopted SEC-1-This Dis't shall be known as the Spanish Belt Mining Dis't SEC 2-The boundaries of this Dist shall be as follows to wit-Commencing at the divide between Spanish Belt & Jefferson at a point due north from the mouth of the incline of the Barcelona mine in Spanish Belt & ruuning due East from said point two miles, thence at a right angle South nine miles, thence at a right angle West six miles, thence at a right angle North nine miles & thence at a right angle East four miles to the place of beginning. SEC 3-The laws of this Dist shall be the Act of Congress of the United States approved May 10 1872 & the acts of Congress subsequent thereto, so far as the same can be made applicable to the District SEC 4-A Dist Mining Recorder shall be elected for the Dist, who shall hold his office for one year from the date of his election & until his successor shall have been elected & qualified according to law, and annually hereafter to wit-on the first Monday after the 1st day of January of each year by the votes of the majority of the owners of mining claims in the Dis't who may be present at any meeting held for the purpose of such election-The Recorder may appoint a Deputy who shall reside in the Dis't & it shall be the duty of the Recorder by himself or deputy to go on the ground before recording any claims, see that all notices & monuments are properly placed, keep a full & correct record of the same which shall be open to public inspection at all times & to record under his protest all conflicting claims SEC 5-The notices of claims in this Dist shall be put on a monument erected on the vein or lode claimed or at a conspicuous place adjacent thereto & shall contain the name or names of the locator or locators, the date of the location, the number of feet claimed & such a description of the claim or claims by referance to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the cisim & the location of each claim shall be so distinctly marked on the surface ground, that its boundaries can be readily seen & tra-a duplicate of the notice above described shall be filed with the mining Recorder of the Dist & his fees for recording the same paid, within ten days of the date of locating the claim, or the claim shall be subject to relocation-Three hundred feet of ground on each side of the centre of the vein or lode discovered & claimed, shall be deemed sufficient surface for the convenient uso & occupation of the claim SEC 6-No person or persons shall claim more than fifteen hundr d linear feet along any lode in any one location, but one person may locato or any number of persons may unite in locating such number of linear feet or any number of linear feet less than fifteen hundred SEC 7—In case of difference between claimants respecting the boundaries of or rights to, or interests legal or equitable in claims, such differances shall be settled by arbitration as follows to wit-The representative or representatives of each of such conflicting claims shall select each, a disinterested person for arbitrator & the two arbitrators so chosen shall select a third disinterested person to act with them-The facts of the differences shall be submitted by the parties differing to the three umpires so chosen & the division of the arbitrators or a majority of them shall be deemed the right of the case SEC 8-These laws may be amended at any meeting of the mine owners of the district, called by ten mine owners, holding interests in ten different mines in the Dis't after such call shall have been posted, in writing, thirty days in three public places, stating the object of the meeting called to wit-one at the County Court house-one at the Dis't Recorders office & one in the Dis't-But no amendment shall be adopted at any time, which shall interfere with the vested rights of any person at the date of the adoption of such amendment or which shall affect or limit Section 3 of these laws at any time SEC 9-No mining claim located & recorded prior to this date the title of which has been kept good, under the laws of Philadelphia Mining Dis't shall be affected in any manner whatever by the laws of this Dis't, but any claimant or claimant of mines within the boundaries of this Dis't desiring so to do, may relocate their mine or mines under the laws of this Dis't-& it is understood that all mines located & filed for record on the first day of January 1875 may be included as & considered filed for record under the mining laws of this Dis't SEC 10-These laws shall take effect & be in force, throughout this Dis't from and after their adoption-A copy of them shall be filed for record in the office of the County Recorder in & for Nyo County Nevada on or before the 5th day of January 1875 & also a copy of the same shall be published in the "Belmont Courier " Which motion was unanimously adopted On motion of H. A. Gaston--Geo Nicholl Esq was was elected, unanimously, as mining Recorder for Spanish Belt Mining Dis't for the ensuing year— No further business appearing on motion of the Sect'y the meeting adjourned without day— H. A. GASTON Secretary— G. NICHOLL Chairman WASHOE COUNTY.-PYRAMID LAKE MINING DISTRICT. PYRAMID LAKE DISTRICT April 12th 1876 At a Miners Meeting held in the Pyramid Lake District at the Mine of Dr S. Bishop known as the "Mamonth" on the 12th day of April 1876. The following business was transacted. The Meeting being called to order Mr. E. F. Morrill was elected chairman E. L. Bridges acting as secretary The following Laws and By Laws were read and adopted. Mr. R. C. Johnson was elected as District Recorder for the ensueing term of two years. LAWS AND BY LAWS 1st The name of the District shall be "Pyramid Lake District" 2nd The boundaries of the District shall be as follows to wit-Commencing at a point on the North boundary of Washoe County where the Carson River Guide Meridian on the East boundary of T- N R 20 E. Intersects said County line Thence South along said Meridian to the Truckee River. Thence East following said Truckee River to its mouth. Thence North following the West Shore lino of Pyramid Lake to a point 10 Miles North of the North boundary of Washoe County Thence West to said Meridian Thence South to place of beginning. 3d (Sec. 2 U. S. M. Laws) A Mining Claim wether located by one or more persous inay equal but shall not exceed one thousand five hundred feet in length along the Vein or Lode: but no location of a Mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the Vein or Lode within its limits. No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the Vein at the surface, nor shall auy claim be limited by any mining regulations to less than twenty five feet on each side of the Middle of the Vein at the surface And the end lines of each location shall be parralell to each other. 4th (See 4 U. S. M. Laws) That when a Tunnel is run for the development of a Vein or Lode or for the discovery of Mines, the owners of such Tunnel shall have the right of possession of all Veins or Lodes within three thousand feet from the face of the Tunnel on the line thereof not previously known to exist, discovered in such Tunnel to the same extent as if discovered from the surface and no location on the line of such Tunnel of Veins or Lodes not appearing on the surface inade by other parties after the commencement of the Tunnel and while the same is being prosecuted with reasonable diligence shall be valid but failing to prosecute the work on the Tunnel for six months shall be considered an abandonment of the right to all undiscovered Veins on the line of said Tunnel. 5th Alluvial or Delluvial deposits commonaly known as Placers. Each person shall be entitled to a claim two hundred feet square. 6th (Sec 5 US M Laws) Miners of the District may make rules and regulations not in conflict with the Laws of the United States and the Laws of the State of Nevada governing locations manuer of Recording amount of work necessary to hold possession of a Mining claim. Subject to the following requirements. The location must be distinctly marked on the ground, so that the boundaries can bo readily traced. On each location and until a patent shall have been issued therefore not less than one hundred Dollars worth of work shall be performed or improvements made during each year. On all claims located prior to the passage of the Act of Congress entitled An Act to promote the development of the Mining resources of the United States approved May 10th 1872. Ten Dollars worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made each year for each one hundred feet in length along the Vein until a patent shall have been issued therefore; but when such claims are held in common sach expenditure may be made upon any one claim and upon a failure to comply with these conditions the claim or mines upon which such failure occurred, shall be open to re-location in the same manner as if no location of the same had ever been made Provided That the orriginal locators their heirs assigus or legal representatives havo resumed work upon the claim after such failure and before snch location. Upon the failure of any of the co-owners to contribute his proportion of the expenditures required by this Article, the co-owners who have performed the labor or nude the improvements, may at the expiration of the year give such delinquent co-owner notice in writing or by publication in a newspaper published nearest the claim for at least once a week for ninety days, and if at the expiration of ninety days after such notice in writing or by Publication such delinquent should fail or refuse to contribute his proportion to comply with this Article, his interest in the claim shall become the property of his co-owners, who have made the required expenditure. 7th All Mining locations shall be recorded in the District Recorders office and within twenty days after location and the District Recorder or some person duly authorised by him, shall measure and mark all claims on the ground, and establish boundary monuments to the same. 8th A District Recorder shall be elected bi-annually and he shall hold his office for the term of two years and until his successor is elected and he may appoint one or more deputies for whose acts he shall be responsible. 9th The election of District Recorder shall be by ballot, and the bi-annual election of Recorder shall be held within the District overy two years thereafter unless otherwise ordered by a muajority of the Miners of the District 10th The Records of the District shall be kept safe from fire. 11th All Meetings and elections shall be called by the Recorder, at the written request of at least five Miners of the District, and be posted in three public places for at least ten days before such meeting or election shall take place. 12th Two days assessment work shall be done on every mining claim within ten days after Recording the same and after one Lundred Dollars worth of work has been done or improvements mado as required by See 5 Mining Laws of the United States the same shall be recorded in the District Recorders office and verrified to before the District Recorder. We the Undersigned Miners of Pyramid Lake Mining District, Weshoe County, Nevada Do hereby agree to and adopt the following as Boundaries of Said District namely Beginning at the intersection of the Northern Boundary of Washoe County with the Carson River Guide Meridian, thence following the North boundary of Washoe County to the Westerly Shore of Pyramid Lake thence along said shore of said Lake to the mouth of Truckee River thence up said river to the place where the Carson River guide meridian crosses it thence along said meridian north to the place of beginning being in Ranges 21. 22. 23 and part of 24 E. M. D. B. and M. WASHOE COUNTY June 13. 1876 (Some 25 other names are also signed in the original) N. D. CHAMBERLIN G. C. WHITE JOHN L. GILLSON "PYRAMID LAKE DISTRICT WASHOE COUNTY NEVADA July 15th 1876 At a Meeting of the Miners of the above named Dist. held at the Recorders Office at Cold Springs persuant to a call made according to the Laws of Said Dist. E. S. McClellan was elected Chairman and B. L. King Secretary after which the following business was transacted Resolved by the Miners present at this Meeting that the two days worke required by the present Laws of this Dist to be done within ten days after the location of the Claim Must also be recorded by the Dist Recorder or some one by him duely authorised after a personal inspection of the said worke Said record of worke must be made within two days after the worke has been done or within twelve (12) days after Recording the location Notice This Law to apply only in cases where parties are not in continual possession of the Mine or where in case of a discontinuance of Worke Fees allowed for said Record $2,% and $21% additional fees for visiting the ground and inspecting the Work Said Resolution to take effect on and after August 1st 1876 This Law to apply on all locations made in this District before and after this date Resolution Carried 00 100 On Motion of Mr. Muron a Vote of the Meeting was taken allowing the Recorder a fee of $4 for Measuring and Markeing the Boundaries of Mining Claims Also carried On Motion the following fees were by unanimous Vote addopted governing charges allowed District Recorder For Filing any Notice..... "Recording Mining Notice.... "Each extra Name "Transcript of Record.. "Recording Assessment work.. "Visiting the ground and estimating work done......... "Measureing and Markeing the Boundaries of a claim..... Minutes approved by the meeting after which Meeting adjourned .50 2.00 .50 2.00 2.00 2.00 4.00 B. L. KING Sectratary" WASHOE COUNTY.-COTTONWOOD MINING DISTRICT. Known to all men by these present that we the undersigned this day the 20th of June A. D. 1876 held a meeting at Mc. Clellan's ranch for the purpose of electing a District Recorder for the new Mining District North, Northeast & Northwest of said ranch running as far as the South boundary of Pyramid District, and in a Westerly direction to a ravine where a big Cottonwood tree stands; & in a Easterly direction to whereabout Wilcox's ranch lays & East across the mountains to the Truckee River. After taking the votes of all present, it was found that Mr. E. S. McClellan was duly elected & it was resolved to extend a written document of this act & have it filed in the County office of Washoe-County. This was done at McClellans ranch in Cottonwood Mining District 25 miles North-East of the town of Reno Washoe-County, Nevada CHAS. BÉDAS Secretary J. W. LOOMIS WM JAMES ALBERT R. MCCLELLAN JOHN WILCOX WASHOE COUNTY.-MCCLELLAN MINING DISTRICT. At a miners meeting held at McClellans Ranch on the 29th day of July A. D. 1876 the following business was transacted. The meeting being called to order Mr. John Wilcox was elected chairman, Charles Bédas acting secretary. The following Laws and by Laws were read and adopted. SEC. 1. The Name of the District shall be the: McClellan District SEC. 2. The boundaries of the District shall be as follows: commencing on the Carson River guido Meridian or the East Boundary of T. N. R. 20 E. at or near Coyote Springs and running as far South as Spanish Springs, thence East to the summit of the hills east of Wilcox's Ranch thence North following that Summit to the head of Piute Canyon, thence westerly following the Summit of the range of hills between the Pyramid Pass and Cottonwood Valley to the intersection with the Carson River guide Meridian, thence South to place of beginning SEC. 3. Sec 2nd U. S. Mining Laws: A mining Claim wether located by one or more persons may equal but shall not exceed one thousand five hundred feet in length along the vein or lode; but no location of a mining claim shall be made untill the discovery of the vein or Lode within its limits. No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet in width on each side of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any Mining regulations to less than twenty five feet on each side of the vein or lode at the surface and the endlines of each location shall be parallel to each other SEC. 4. Sec 4th U. S. Mining laws: That, when a tunnel is run for the developpement of a vein or lode or for the discovery of mines, the owners of such tunnel shall have the right of possession of all veins or lodes within three thousand feet from the face of the tunnel on the line thereof not previously known to exist, discovered in such tunnel to the same extent as if discovered from the surface and no location on the line of such tunnel of veins or lodes not appearing on the surface made by other parties after the commencement of the tunnel and while the same is being prosecuted with reasonable diligence shall be valid, but failure to prosecute the work on the tunnel for six months shall be considered an abandonment of the right to all undiscovered veins or lodes on the line of said tunnel. SEC. 5. Sec 5 U. S. Ming Laws: Miners of the District may make rules and regulations not in conflict with the Laws of the U. S. or the State of Nevada governing the locations, manner of recording, amount of work necessary to hold possession of a Mining Claim subject to the following requirement: the location must be distinctly marked on the ground so that the boundaries can be readily traced on each location and untill a Patent shall have been issued therefore not less than one hundred dollars worth of work shall be performed or improvements made during each year on all claims located prior to the passage of the Act of Congress entitled an act to promote the developpement of the Mining Resources of the U. S. approved May 10th 1872, ten dollars worth of work shall be performed or improvements made each year for each one hundred feet in length along the veins untill a Patent shall have been issued therefore; but when such claims are held in common such expenditure may be made on any one claim and upon a failure to comply with this conditions the claims or mines upon which such failure occurred shall be open to relocations in the same manner as if no location of the same had ever been made, provided that the original locators, their heirs, assigns or legal representatives have resumed work upon the claim after such failure and before such location; upon a failure of any of the coowners to contribute his proportion of the expenses required by this article the coowners who have performed the labor or made the improvements may at the expiration of the year give notice to such delinquent coowners in writing or by publication in a Newspaper published nearest the claim for at least once a week for ninety days and if at the expiration of ninety days after such Notice in writing or by publication such delinquent should fail or refuse to contribute his proportion to comply with this article his interest in the claim shall become the property of the coowners who have made the required improvements. BY-LAWS SEC. 1st A District Recorder shall be elected annually and shall hold his office for the term of one year and untill his successor is elected and he may appoint one or more deputies for whose acts he shall be responsible. SEC. 2d. The election of a District Recorder shall be by ballot and the election shall be held within the District annually unless otherwise ordered by a Majority of the Miners of the District. SEC. 3d. All mining locations shall be recorded in the District Recorders Office and within (20) (twenty) days after location and the District Recorder or some person diuly authorized by him shall measure and mark all claims on the ground and establish boundaric-monuments to the same. SEC. 4. All meetings and elections shall be called by the Recorder at the written request of at least five miners of the District and be posted in three public places in the District at least ten days prior to such meeting or election. SEC. 5. Two days assessment work shall be done on every Mining Claim within thirty days after having located the same and, after one hundred dollars worth of work has been done or improvements made as required by Sec. 5 of U. S. M. Laws the same shall be recorded in the District Recorders Office and verified to before the Recorder. SEC. 6. The Fees for Recording shall be as follows: For filing a Notice... "recording a Notice "each additional name "Measuring a claim..... Mr. E. S. McClellan was by ballot diuly elected Recorder for the term of one year CHARLES BÉDAS $0.25 1.00 0.25 4.00 W. W. COLE E. S. MCCLELLAN After singing the Laws and Bye Laws the meeting adjourned to meet at the call of the Recorder CHAS. BÉDAS Secy LINCOLN COUNTY.-JACK RABBIT MINING DISTRICT. BY LAWS OF MINING DISTRICT By a vote of the Miners on Sept. 25th 1877, Bristol District was divided and a new district formed with the following boundaries. on the South East by the Highland Mining Dis't on the North West by the Last Chance Mining Dis't, on the South by the summit of the Mountain, on the North by the valley, and named the “Jack Rabbit Mining District" and the following by laws were adopted to govern the district "To wit" S1c1 Each individual Mining Claim made in the district shall in Conformity with the United States mining laws consist of fifteen hundred feet in length on the ledge or lode together with all dips spurs and angles appertaining to said ledge or lode located for mining purposes also three hundred feet on each side of ledge or lode located, for mining purposes. SEC 2 Locations shall be made by placing a legible notice securely and conspicuously on the ledge or lode by either of the following methods. "namely" on a monument of stone not less than three feet high and well built, or on a post firmly put in the ground not less than three inches through and two feet above ground or on a tree not less than four inches through which notice shall state the number of feet claimed in the location, the names of the parties locating the same and the number of feet for which each name is located and the name or names by which the ledge or lode shall hereafter be known and also as near as practicable the local position of the claim in the district. SEC 3 ARTICLE 1 An annual meeting of the miners of this district shall be held on the second Monday in September of each and overy year at which time a district Recorder shall be Elected and any other business transacted which may properly come before the meeting. ARTICLE 2 The Recorder shall hold office one year from the date of his election and untill his successor is qualified. before entering upon the duties of his office he shall file in the office of the nearest sitting magistrate or notary an oath or affirmation that he will duly and faithfuly perform the duties of his office as required by the laws of this district. ARTICLE 3 He shall procure at his own cost suitable books on which he shall legibly inscribe a record of all mining claims presented to him for recording keeping the same properly invoiced in a seperate book. also a book in which he shall keep a record of the minutes of the district meetings both annual and called and at the expiration of his term of office deliver the same in good condition to his successor. ARTICLE 4 He shall at all reasonable times keep the books of record open to the inspection of the public but only in the presence of himself or one of his deputies. ARTICLE 5 He shall number consecutively the claim recorded endorseing the number of notice posted on the claim. ARTICLE 6 He shall receive for cach and every location recorded the sum of two dollars gold coin for issueing certificate of location. ARTICLE 7 The recorder shall have power to appoint one or more deputies who shall reside in the district for whose acts he shall be responsible. ho shall not be compelled to perform any act pertaining to his office without receiveing his lawful fees. ARTICLE 8 He shall on the application of any party interested visit any mining claim and survey the amount of work done and performed upon the same issueing a certificate as to the amount of work on the same according to the best of his judgement for which service he shall be entitled to the sum of five dollars gold coin which he may demand in advance. ARTICLE 3 The recorder shall give at least ten days notice of the time of holding annual or called meetings by posting not less thau two notices posted in conspicuous places in the district. ARTICLE 10 At the written request of not less than five miners of the district he shall in the manner prescribed issue a call for a special meeting of miners stating the time and place where said meeting shall be held and the object for which called. at said meeting no business shall be transacted other than that specified and named in the call. ARTICLE 11 In case of death or resignation or removal from office for canse or his own voluntary absence from the district for six months the office of recorder shall be declared vacant. and the deputy recorder shall notify the miners that an election is to be held to fill the vacant office of recorder stating time of meeting and place where such meeting is to be held, untill such election is held and the newly elected recorder is qualified the deputy recorder shall exersise the duties of his office. ARTICLE 12 Only bonafide miners shall have the privilige of participating in any election or meeting and no person shall ba considered a miner unless he has a claim recorded and worked according to the district by laws. ARTICLE 13 On the application of any party wishing to make locations it shall be the duty of the recorder to go on the ground to be located and see all the marks and boundaries of such location before making any record of the same and in making all records it shall be the duty of the recorder to record a true copy of the notice posted on the claim at the time of such application for which services he will be allowed three dollars gold coin ARTICLE 14 It shall be the duty of the recorder to transfer when presented all records free of charge recorded in Bristol District but now belonging to the Jack Rabbit Mining District. I hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of the by laws of Jack Rabbit Mining District GEORGE F WEED Mining Recorder Jack Rabbit District. ROYAL CITY, LINCOLN CO. NEVADA December 23d A. D. 1878 HUMBOLDT COUNTY.-MOUNT ROSE MINING DISTRICT. BY LAWS OF MT. ROSE DST. Pursuant to a call a meeting of the miners of Mt. Rose Mg. Dst. held this 19th of March 1878 the following business was transacted. M. W. Havalin was elected chairman pro. tem. A. L. Washburn was elected secty. of said meeting,, A. 1. The name of this district shall be Mt. Rose Mg. Dest,, A. 2. This district is bounded on the west by the Summit of the rango west of Paradise Valley on the North and East by Martin Crk. on the South by a line running due west from hot Springs situated on the little Humboldt about 6 miles from Martin Creek. 3 That every claim of 1500 feet shall have $50 worth of work done on said claim within 90 days from the date of location 4 That $100 shall be the feo for filing notice of location,, 5. That 300 ft. from the center of lead each way shall be allowed by the laws of this district. 6. The foes for recording shall be $3 for each notico of location A. L. WASHBURN Secty M. W. HAVALIN, Chairman HUMBOLDT COUNTY.-HUMBOLDT MINING DISTRICT. At a regular called meeting of the miners of Humboldt District held at Humboldt House October 25th 1875, O. C. Wheeler was appointed chairman and J F. Kunkel, Secretary. Said meeting being called for the purpose of electing a Recorder and adopting District By Laws On motion it was resolved to proceed to the adoption of By Laws: which after due deliberation were adopted as follows: I. Boundaries This District is bounded as follows. Northerly Eagle Cañon Easterly by the summit of the mountain opposite Santa Clara and Star Districts Southerly Antelope Cañon Westerly, by a line one half a mile Westerly by Central Pacific Rail Road track. |