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On motion J. P. Blalock was appointed president of the meeting and John M. Roberts secretary. On motion a committee of three was appointed to draft resolutions.

Messrs [?] Manry, Risley, and Spaulding (the committee) offered the following Resolutions which were read and adopted yeas 24, noes 16.

Resolved that any persons holding claims in the camp by location and continuously working one claim of either class shall renew their notices on the others every thirty days, counting from the 15 May 1867. The renewal shall be by writing upon said notice "Renewed" with the date of so doing, and it shall be sufficient to hold the same.

Parties holding claims by purchase in excess of the number they have a right to locate shall work upon each one day in ten except when claims so held join when the working of one shall apply to the others.

J. P. BLALOCK,

President.

JOHN M. ROBERTS,

Secretary.

WINES CAMP, MINERS' MEETING (Vol. 10, p. 20)

At a Meeting held in Wines Camp at Messrs [?] Plymale and Co. House, pursuant of notice of the 7th of May 1867 by the miners of said camp, Geo. T. Sullivan was called to the chair and C. P. Pendleton chosen secretary to decide whether this camp is an old or a new one. After hearing the evidence the meeting passed the following resolutions by voting by ballot.

1st. Resolved that Henry Wines the reputed discoverer of this camp is not entitled to discovery claims.

2nd. Resolved that a minor under the age of Fifteen years is not entitled to hold mining claims in this camp.

3rd, Resolved that article 14 in the present laws of this camp is hereby repealed.

There being no further business before the meeting on motion it was adjourned sine die. Wines Camp, Ogn May 11, 1867

GEO. T. SULLIVAN, Chairman CHAS. P. PEND