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Extension of same lode-how taken.

Fees of recorders.

Discoverer pays for re

cording the Certificates

entire lode.

must have impress of county seal.

Recorder

shall make

port of re

lief claims

to county treasurer.

the same, and the claim taken for the benefit of schools, and the claim taken for the benefit of disabled miners and the poor of the territory or state, as aforesaid; and if any lode or vein shall extend beyond the limits, as hereinafter specified, that portion thereof lying without the limits aforesaid, shall be deemed open to discovery, and may be taken and held in the same manner as the claims first taken thereon.

SEC. 9. That the county recorder in each and every county to which the provisions of this act may apply, shall be allowed the sum of four dollars for recording and issuing a certificate of pre-emption for such discovery claim of fourteen hundred feet, and the sum of two dollars for entering the same on any abstract of title, and the sum of twenty-five cents for each and every transfer thereafter entered on said abstract; and the fees for the claims taken for the benefit of schools, and the miners' relief and territorial poor fund shall be included in said sum of four dollars; and every certificate so issued shall bear the impress of the seal of the county in which the property is situated.

ŠEC. 10. It shall be the duty of each and every monthly re- county recorder to report to the county treasurer, on the first day of every month, all claims (not previously reported) which may, in their respective counties, have been taken or recorded for the use and benefit of the disabled miners and territorial poor en applica. fund; and upon application to the county commissioners by the county treasurer of the county in which said claims may lie, the county commissioners praise relief shall proceed to name the price or sum of money for which each of the different claims may be bonded, sold or leased.

tion of coun

ty treasu

rer, com

missioners

shall ap

claims.

Appraised claimscounty treasurer may sell,

bond, or lease.

Bond and leaseterms of.

Lessees must give security.

SEC. 11. That whenever the county commissioners shall have fixed the price or sum of money for which any claim or claims may be bonded, sold or leased, they may instruct the county treasurer to sell, bond or lease, as the case may be, any or all such claims so appraised by the county commissioners aforesaid, Provided, always, That no bond shall be given for a term longer than one year, and no lease for a term longer than four years.

SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of each and every county treasurer, in their respective counties, having the control of any claims taken or recorded under the provisions of this act for the miners' relief and

territorial poor fund, in the execution of each and every lease, to take good personal securities from each of the lessees, for the faithful payment of the sums mentioned in the lease, said amount to be paid semi-annually.

SEC. 13. That should a sale at any time be made of the claims taken or recorded for the use of any and benefit of the miners' relief and territorial poor fund, the county treasurers, in their respective counties where such claims may lie, are hereby authorized and empowered to make the transfer by signing the deed in their official capacity, and said transfer so executed, shall constitute a true and valid title.

Rent paid ally.

semi-annu

Deed of sale county

executed by

treasurer.

County

treasurer

may employ legal coun

ef

SEC. 14. That the county treasurers, in their respective counties, in each of the several counties of this territory, are hereby authorized and empowered to employ, at a just and reasonable compensation, legal counsel to conduct any and all suits in any of the courts of this territory, growing out of, or under the provisions of this act and relating to all such For what claims, which, by and under the provisions of this purpose. act, belong to the miners' relief and territorial poor fund.

County shall acritorial

treasurers

count to ter

treasurer.

SEC. 15. That the county treasurers in each of the said counties of this territory shall keep a correct account of all money, or sums of money received by them, by, through or under the provisions of this act, and shall, after deducting their compensation, as hereinafter provided, transmit on or before the first day When. of December and the first day of June, in each year, to the territorial treasurer, all remaining funds or property belonging to the miners' relief and territorial poor fund, and shall accompany the same with a full and complete report of all transactions relative to

the same.

What funds.

And report tions.

all transao

tion of

SEC. 16. That the several county treasurers afore- Compensasaid, shall each of them receive, as a compensation county for their services, in the faithful execution of their treasurers. duties under the provisions of this act, as provided in sections 9, 10, 11 and 14 of said act, ten per cent. of all sums collected or received by them from the sale or lease of said claims, or from any source whatsoever, growing out of, or under the provisions of this act, Provided, however, That the compensation accruing therefrom does not exceed one thousand dollars annually.

Not to ex

ceed one

thousand

dollars.

County treasurer may be required to give additional bond.

Relief of disabled miners.

How obtained.

One-half of surplus in

treasury appropriated to territorial poor.

Conflicting acts repealed.

SEC. 17. That whenever the county commissioners of any county to which the provisions of this act may apply, shall deem the amount of bond previously given by the county treasurer insufficient, they may require of such county treasurer additional bonds, with security, to be approved by them, in such sum as they may deem proper and necessary to insure the faithful execution of the trust confided in such treasurers by the terms of this act.

SEC. 18. That if any person, of the class of persons known to be miners, shall be disabled in the pursuit of his occupation as a miner, he shall be entitled to receive, out of the funds raised under the provisions of this act, a sum sufficient to pay his necessary expenses, incurred by reason of his disability or injury so incurred, including necessary medical attendance, Provided, however, That at the time such injury or disability shall occur, there shall be funds in the treasury to meet such expenditure.

SEC. 19. Any person claiming, under the provisions of this act, the benefit of the miners' relief and territorial poor fund, shall make his application for relief to the treasurer of the proper county, who, after he shall be satisfied that the claim is just and proper, shall allow the same, and draw his order for the amount thereof upon the territorial treasurer, who shall pay the same out of any funds in his possession, belonging to the miners' relief and territorial poor fund.

SEC. 20. That no money shall be used or paid out of the miners' relief and territorial poor fund by the territorial treasurer, in any other manner than hereinbefore provided, until the close of each fiscal year, when one-half of the funds raised by this act and remaining in the hands of the territorial treasurer, may be appropriated to the benefit of the poor of the territory, in such manner as may be provided for by existing laws.

SEC. 21. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 22. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 9th, A. D. 1866.

MINES-OFFICERS-PARK COUNTY.

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AN ACT

TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT CONCERNING LODE
CLAIMS," APPROVED NOVEMBER 7TH, A. D. 1861.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of Colorado Territory:

SECTION 1. That the words "nine months," in the fifth line of section eleven (11) be stricken out, and the words "two years" be inserted in lieu thereof. SEC. 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 8th, A. D. 1866.

U. S. sol

diers alowed two

years from time of discharge to represent lode claims.

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

TO DEFINE THE TERM OF TERRITORIAL AUDITOR AND TER-
RITORIAL TREASURER.

Be it Resolved by the Council, the House concurring, that

Hereafter the term of territorial auditor of public accounts, and territorial treasurer, shall commence on the first Monday of February, biennially. Approved January 23rd, A. D. 1866.

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AN ACT

TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY
OF PARK, TO APPROPRIATE TO OTHER PURPOSES THE MIL-
ITARY FUND RAISED BY VIRTUE OF AN ACT ENTITLED "AN
ACT TO ENCOURAGE THE FORMATION AND EQUIPMENT OF
VOLUNTEER COMPANIES," APPROVED FEBRUARY 10TH, A.
D. 1865.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of Colorado Territory:

SECTION 1. That the county commissioners of the county of Park have power, and are hereby authorized to appropriate the military fund raised in said

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county by virtue of an act entitled "An act to encourage the formation and equipment of volunteer companies," approved February 10th, A. D. 1865, to the use of said county of Park, in such way as the said commissioners may at any regular meeting di

rect.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 5th, A. D. 1866.

Persons who have

or jumped school

who shall

not relinquish the

same before

June 1st, 1866.

AN ACT

SUPPLEMENTAL TO AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO CREATE
A FUND FOR THE BENEFIT OF SCHOOLS, "' APPROVED
AUGUST 15TH, A. D. 1862.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of Colorado Territory:

SECTION 1. That all persons who have heretofore pre-empted pre-empted upon the records of any county in this territory, or jumped or trespassed upon, or illegally claims, and attacked, or inteferred with the title to any claims set apart and duly recorded for the benefit of schools under and by virtue of an act, to which this act is supplementary, (entitled "an act to create a fund for the benefit of schools," approved August 15th, 1862,) who shall not have relinquished upon the records of the county in which said claim or claims are situated, all assumed or pretended right, title and interest in and to the same, and who shall not have surrendered the possession thereof on or before the first day of June, A. D. 1866, and all persons who shall hereafter pre-empt, jump or otherwise trespass upon, or illejump school gally attack or interfere with the title to any such tyoull mining claim or claims, shall be deemed and held guilty of misdemeanor, and shall be proceeded against by an indictment to be found by the grand indictment. jury of the county in which the offense may be committed, and upon conviction of said misdemeanor, Shall be shall be fined in a sum not less than fifty dollars, nor more than ten thousand dollars, and shall also be subject to a civil action for damages as hereinafter set forth. The vendees and lessees of all persons guilty of the acts herein denominated misdemeanors, claim

And per sons who

shall here

after preempt or

claims guil

meanor. And pro

ceeded against by

fined.

And subject to civil action.

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