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passed between M. Osterberg and H. Wines, on the tenth day of December eighteen hundred sixty six.

Art. 7. Resolved, All claims in this camp shall not be considered workable until the 15th day of May 1867.

Art. 8. All claims when workable shall be held by one days work in ten being performed on each claim.

Art. 9. And all claims shall be considered workable when there is a sluice head of water on them after the fifteenth clay of May 1867.

Art. 10. And every miner shall be entitled to a drain to his claim through the claim below his if necessary.

Art. 11. All tailings thrown upon another miner's ground shall be removed if necessary by the owners of the claim that put them there.

Art. 12. Resolved, there shall be a recorder elected for this mining camp, whose duty it' shall be to record all bills of sale and claims.

Art. IS. And it shall be the duty of every man taking up claim or claims, to have his claim or claims recorded within fifteen days after taking them up, except the claims taken prior to the adoption of these laws which shall be recorded within twenty days after taking up.

Art. 14. Resolved that the sale or transfer of a claim in this miners camp shall not be valid unless said claim is first recorded, except the sale of M. Osterberg to H. Wines.

Art. 15. Resolved that the Recorder shall receive one dollar for each claim and each bill of sale he shall record.

Art. 16. Resolved that Henry Wines, the discoverer of this mining camp shall be entitled to a Discovery claim in the Creek and one in the Gulch.

Art. 17. Resolved that these mining laws be recorded on the Records of Jackson County Oregon.

President, NELSON MCDONALD. Secretary, D. H. SEXTON.

[See "Record of meeting to repeal or revise the Mining Laws of Wines Diggings."]

MINING LAWS OF BOAEDMAN'S DIGGINGS (Vol. 9, pp. 154-156)

State of Oregon, Jackson County,

Louse Creek, April the 16, 1867.

Pursuant to a public notice a meeting of the miners on Louse Creek was held in the house of Boardman and