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Article 9th. Motion that the President appoint a Recorded for this Mining District, which he proceeded to do by appointing Wm. Ray as Recorder.

Article 10th. All former laws of this Creek are hereby repealed.

Resolved that these laws take effect from and after the 20th day of Feb. 1863.

J. B. IRVINE,

Chairman. D. K. HENDERSON, Secretary.

[It would be interesting to know if this represents a secession from the "Jackass Creek Diggings" district. Article 10 could be a "secession ordinance" as much as it could indicate previous laws of a separate district. It is quite certain that by 1864 Jackass Creek seems to have been almost completely given up to Chinamen; almost the only names appearing are such as Lin and Co., Tan and Co., Wong and Co., Lo and Co., King Foo and Co. But in that case it is odd that no definite article was made excluding Chinese, if this were an effort to save a portion of the creek to the white men.]

MINING LAWS OF WINES CAMP (Vol. 9, p. 121)

Mar. 18, 1867,

Art. 1. Resolved that this camp be called WinesCamp.

Art. 2. Resolved that the boundaries of this Mining Camp shall commence at the mouth of Fall Creek and include all of the upper waters of Jump Off Jo.

Art. 3. Resolved, the size of a claim in the Creek and the Gulch shall be one hundred yards up and down the creek and one hundred yards wide, also the same size in the Gulch, a Hill claim shall be one hundred yards front on the Creek or Gulch and run back to the summit of the hill.

Art. 4. Resolved, a miner shall be entitled to three claims in this camp, one in the Creek, one in the Gulch and one in the hill.

Art. 5. Resolved, [when] a company of two or more persons take claims in this camp, each member shall be present when his notice is put up.

Art. 6. Resolved that all bills of sale given prior to the adoption of these mining laws shall be void in this Mining Camp with the exception of the bill of sale