be to hear the evidence and statements bearing upon the case before them and decide the question or questions involved. If either party feel aggrieved at the decision rendered, have a right and can appeal to a general miners' meeting of the district. It shall be the duty of the Recorder to write out three notices calling said meeting giving at least two days notice.
Art. 9
No deed or sale of a claim to be considered valid unless the claim or claims have been preempted in accordance with the laws and customs of the mining district -and further said preemptor or preemptors shall have worked or cause to be worked to t he amount of Twenty (20) Dollars on said claim or claims.
Art. 10
Any person or persons Discovering New Diggings in any River, Creek, Gulch, Flat, or Hill in this District shall be entitled to an Extra Claim of One hundred (100) yards.
Art. 11
All mining laws or customs heretofore Existing in this Mining District not in accordance with the above laws are hereby repealed and are now and henceforth null and void.
Steamboat City April 3, 69.
M. F. ALCORN, Prest. H. W. TUTTLE, Sec.
H. W. Tuttle was elected Recorder for one year.
MINING LAWS OF UNION TOWN (Vol. 12, pp. 64-63) July 2, 1870
Agreeable to a call issued through the notices duly posted on the 19th ultimo a miners' meeting organized at . Cameron's store and elected J. W. Burrill chairman, and W. A. A. Hamilton, Clerk. A motion was made and carried that a new Mining District be organized and named and known as the Union Town Mining District. It was moved and carried that said Mining District will be bounded on the north by the Jackass Mining District, on the East by the Lower Sterlingwell District, on the South by the Comstock Ditch Dam, and on the
