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Article 7th Judicial Power

Any person or persons violating any of these resolutions or by-laws shall abide the decision of a miners* meeting.

Article 8th Chinese Excluded

No Chinaman shall be allowed to purchase or hold any claim on this Creek.

Article 9th

Adoption of Resolutions

Resolved, the foregoing articles shall come into effect as Laws of this Creek on or after and from the twentieth day of March A. D. 1860.

J. F. HEADRICK, Chairman, V. P. COMSTOCK, JAS. W. MEE, E. THOMPSON,

Committee on Resolutions FRANCIS SACKETT, Secretary JOHN GOFF, Recorder.

[Filed and recorded with County Clerk, Mar. 24th, 1860]

MINING REGULATIONS OF JACKASS CREEK DIGGINGS (Vol. 2, p. 164)

Resolutions and By-Laws of Jackass Creek from its head to the junction with Poor Man's Creek, Mar. 17, 1860. The foregoing [?] resolutions shall take effect from the 19th day of Mar. 1860.

Article 1

Each miner shall hold a claim one hundred yards square and as much by purchase as he represents.

[Articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are verbatim duplicates of the Humbug Creek laws.]

After due consideration the above resolutions have been unanimously adopted.

SAMUEL HINKLEY, Chairman. JOHN D. BUCKLEY, Secretary. Recorder, FRANCIS LOGG.

[The interesting omission of Article 8 of the Humbug Creek Laws, that excluding Chinese, should be noted. Jackass Creek was the cosmopolitan area of Jackson