Chapter 2559. To amend the laws governing labor or improvements upon mining claims in Alaska
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CHAP. 2559.— An Act To amend the laws governing labor or improvements upon mining claims in Alaska. March 2, 1907. [[H. R. 8984](/us/bill/34/hr/8984).] [[Public, No. 218](/us/pl/34/218).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That during each year andAlaska.Annual improvements, etc., required on mining claims. until patent has been issued therefor, at least one hundred dollars’ worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made on, or for the benefit or development of, in accordance with existing law, each mining claim in the district of Alaska heretofore or hereafter located.
And the locator or owner of such claim or some other person havingFiling affidavits. knowledge of the facts may also make and file with the said recorder of the district in which the claims shall be situate an affidavit showing the performance of labor or making of improvements to the amount of one hundred dollars as aforesaid and specifying the character and extent of such work. Such affidavit shall set forth the following:Contents. First, the name or number of the mining claims and where situated; second, the number of days work done and the character and value of the improvements placed thereon; third, the date of the performance of such labor and of making improvements; fourth, at whose instance the work was done or the improvements made; fifth, the actual amount paid for work and improvement, and by whom paid when the same was not done by the owner.
Such affidavit shall be prima facie evidence ofPrima facie evidence of performance of work. etc. the performance of such work or making of such improvements, but if such affidavits be not tiled within the time fixed by this Act the burden of proof shall be upon the claimant to establish the performance of such annual work and improvements. And upon failure of theForfeiture. locator or owner of any such claim to comply with the provisions of this Act, as to performance of work and improvements, such claim shall become forfeited and open to location by others as if no location of the same had ever been made.
The affidavits required hereby mayOfficer before whom affidavits may be made.[R. S., sec, 5892, 5893. p. 1045](/us/rs/s5892/s5893/p1045). be made before any officer authorized to administer oaths, and the provisions of sections fifty-three hundred and ninety-two and fifty-three hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statues are hereby extended to such affidavits. Said affidavits shall be filed not later than ninetyTime of filing. days after the close of the year in which such work is performed.
Sec. 2. That the recorders for the several divisions or districts ofFee. Alaska shall collect the sum of one dollar and fifty cents as a fee for the tiling, recording, and indexing said annual proofs of work and improvements for each claim so recorded. Approved, March 2, 1907.