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Article 7th. No man,  or  company  of  men,  shall  be  allowed  to  put  a  dam or any  obstruction  in  the  creek  or  side  race  so  as  to  damage  the  claims  above or below. Each company  is  required  to  keep  the  side  race  in  order  opposite their own  claims.

Article Sth. It shall  be  the  duty  of  the  secretary  or  recorder  to  record  all claims in  the  district  if  requested  by  the  claim-holder,  and  to  sjjecify  tlie boundaries of  each  claim  or  company's  claim. For which  the  seci-etary  shall receive the  sum  of  twenty-five  cents  for  recording  each  claim. / Article  9th. Each company   shall   have   the   right  to   cut  a  drain  race

' through  the  claims  below,  and  if  the  party  cannot  agree  upon  the  amount  of

damage, if  any,  they  shall  leave  it  to  disinterested  persons. And that  all difficulties arising  in  this  district  in  regard  to  mining  claims  shall  be  settled by disinterested  miners  of  the  district.

Article 10th. That each  company  shall  empty  their  tailings  on  their  own ground.

Article 11th. That these  laws  be  subject  to  amendment  by  a  vote  of  two thirds of  the  miners  of  the  district.

Article 12th. Ihat a  copy  of  these  laws  shall  be  published  in  the  Nevada Journal, and  three  copies  shall  be  posted  in  the  district. .

At a  meeting  of  the  miners  of  Bush  Creek,  held September 4,  1854,  on  motion,  M.  S.  Cleveland  was called to  the  chair,  and  N.  A.  Hicks  was  appointed secretary.

On motion,  a  committee  of  three  was  appointed  to draft  resolutions  for  the  action  of  this  meeting,  A. B.  Swan,  H.  A.  Lonas,  and  M.  Sullivan,     members.

The following  resolutions  were  presented,  and  unan- imously adopted :

1st. That tliis  district  shall  be  known  as  Lower  Bush  Creek  district.

2d. That the  boundary  shall  be  as  follows:  commencing  at  the  Upper Falls, or  at  the  lower  line  of  Allen's  claims,  and  running  down  to  the  fall  =, blasted by  Brush  Creek  Co.  in  1853,  including  five  claims  in  the  E^ock  Creek J adjoining,  and  ten  claims  in  Miles'  Ravine.

'^ 3d. That the  claims  shall  be  sixty  feet  in  length,  and  extending  from

bank to  bank.

4th. That any  xierson  may  hold  one  claim  by  location,  and  as  many  l:y_ purchase as  he  may  see  proper.

Sth. That any  person  owning  claims  in  this  district  can  leave  and  vacate the same  until  there  is  sufficient  water  for  ground-sluicing  by  having  them recorded in  the  recorder's  book,  giving  number  and  location  of  the  same within ten  days  after  this  date.

6th. That these  resolutions  be  published  in  the  Nevada  Journal.

According to  previous  notice,  a  meeting  of  the  miners ot Little  Deer  creek  was  held  on  Saturday,  Septem- ber 9, 1854,  and  adopted  unanimously  the  following additional laws :

1st. There shall  be  no  dams  or  obstruction  kept  In  the  channel  of  Little ■ Deer  creek  during  the  freshets,  either  at  or  above  or  below  low  water  mark, except the  dam  at  the  falls,  which  may  be  kept  in  during  the  freshets.

2d. That the  company  or  companies  using  the  water  of  the  creek  shall not drop  the  same  in  cuts  or  flumes  so  as  to  prevent  the  company  or  companies below them  from  ujing  the