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when the laws require the claims to be represented shall thereby forfeit the same.

CHARLES BENSON, President.

JOHN B. HANNAH, Secretary.

Filed and recorded in Mining Records of Jackson County Oregon at 10 o'clock A. M. August 13, 1867.

MINING LAWS OF COYOTE DISTRICT (Vol. 10, p. 161)

1st Resolved each miner can hold one Hundred yards up and down the Creek and one hundred yards from the center of the flat by preemption.

2nd Resolved, claims must be worked when water will permit, or if left more than ten days shall be considered deserted unless in case of sickness.

3rd Resolved, all Gulches in this District shall be the same as the Creek claims.

4th Resolved, the Discoverer of new Diggings shall be entitled to one Claim Extra.

5th Resolved, all claims bought or preempted previous to the adoption of the above laws shall be considered right and respected.

6th Resolved, Each miner can hold a hill claim apart from his Creek claim until it can be worked.

Adopted at a miners' meeting held at the Store on the 21st April 1860.

HENRY SMITH, Chairman. DAVID FERGUSON, Sec't.

At^a Miners' Meeting held at the store May 4th 1861, Mr. Lindskeog in the chair it was resolved that claims lay over from June the first until Dec. the first.

D. FERGUSON, Sec't.

Filed for record, Aug. 26, 1867, and recorded the same day.

W. H. HYDE, Co. Clerk.

MINING LAWS OF COYOTA CREEK (Vol. 11, p. 81) Coyota Creek, Mar 13, 1867

At a Meeting held by the miners of Coyota Creek Article 1st

Be it resolved that the mining law in regard to Gulch, Hill, and Bench claims be represented from the first of December until the fifteenth of March.