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MINING LAWS OF LOWER STERLING CREEK DIST. (Vol. 9)

At a meeting of the miners of Lower Sterling Creek District. Met persuant to previous notice. Met on the fifteenth day of January 1867. When the laws of Oct. the first 1859 were declared null and void and the following laws were enacted.

Sec. 1. The title of this Mining District shall be known as the "Lower Sterling Creek District" and lying from the mouth of Demming Creek to the mouth of Sterling Creek.

Sec. 2. Each miner is entitled to hold by preemption one Creek claim one hundred yards long including the flats or bars of said creek on each side of the creek.

Sec. 3. Flat or hill claims to be one hundred yards square.

Sec. 4. Each miner is entitled to hold by preemption in addition to the said Creek claims, one flat, hill, or gulch claim, the gulch claim to be 100 yards long and 60 yards wide.

Sec. 5. Any man holding claims in this district is required to put up notices describing the same and if he does not work them, he is required to renew the notices once a month.

Art. 6. Any man can hold claims by purchase by renewing the notices once a month, in addition to his preemption claim.

Sec. 7. Any change in the laws of this district must be made by giving ten days notice.

Signed by

LYMAN CHAPPELL R. I. CAMERON NEWTON 0. HASKINS WM. HASKINS THEODORE CAMERON L. PHILLIPS R. PHILLIPS

RECORD OF MEETING TO REPEAL OR REVISE THE MINING LAWS OF WINES DIGGINGS (Vol. 9, p. 195)

Pursuant to notice a miners meeting was held in Wines Diggings May 1, 1867 for the purpose of revising or repealing section "8" of the existing laws, at which the following proceedings were had.