Arizona ghost trailsHinton, Richard J. (Richard Josiah)
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Arizona ghost trails
Hinton, Richard J. (Richard Josiah)
Arizona -- Guidebooks; Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona
5. In the location of mines in this district, copies of the notices of
location must be placed on the mines before any legal record of the
same can be made by the recorder. Any location not so made shall be
null and void.
6. All location notices must be filed in the office of the recorder
within thirty days after the actual date of location.
7. The County Recorder shall be entitled to a fee of two dollars for
each and every notice recorded by him.
8. The records of ---- County are hereby adopted as the bona fide
records of this district.
9. The annual meeting of the voters of this district shall take place
and be holden on the first Monday in May in each year.
10. Ten days prior to the date of holding the annual meeting, the
Recorder shall place, or cause to be placed or posted, in three of the
most conspicuous places in said district, a notice stating the time
when, and the place where, said meeting shall be holden, and shall
designate in such notice that the meeting shall be holden for the
purpose of transacting all and every kind of business which may be
properly brought before it.
11. At each annual meeting, the voters of the district shall elect
their chairman and secretary, who shall hold office for one year, or
until their successors are appointed.
12. The chairman and secretary of this meeting shall hold office from
the ---- day of ---- for one year, or until their successors are
elected.
13. The secretary of each meeting shall keep full and complete records
of the minutes and proceedings of their respective meetings, and cause
the same to be placed on record in the office of the County Recorder.
14. These rules, regulations and by-laws shall not be altered, or in
any way changed, except at a regular annual meeting of the miners of
said district, and then only by a legal vote of two-thirds of all the
voters present and voting.
15. Any and all persons who are citizens of the United States of
America, or who have declared their intention to become such, and own
shares of stock or interests in any mine in the district, or who has
worked in any mine in the district for the twenty days preceding such
meeting, shall be considered a legal voter, and entitled to vote at a
miners’ meeting.
16. Five dollars per day shall be allowed for each and every eight
hours’ work performed upon a mine for the purpose of holding title,
or performing the necessary amount of work for a patent, and no other
expenses shall be considered as expended for the purpose of holding or
perfecting title.
17. All mines hereafter located in this district shall be marked by
end and corner monuments or stakes, at least eighteen inches in height
above ground, with sufficient marks placed in or upon them to show
which end or corner of the claim they designate; if stakes are used,
they must be sunk at least six inches in the ground, and have a blaze
and figures upon one side.
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