Chapter 75.
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CHAP. 75.— Joint Resolution To suspend the requirements of annual assessment work on mining claims during the years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen. October 5, 1917.[[S. J. Res. 78](/us/bill/65/sjres/78).][[Pub. Res., No. 12](/us/bill/pubres/65/12).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That in order that labor may Public lands.Mining claims assessments suspended for 1917 and 1918.[R.
S., sec. 2324, p. 426](/us/rs/sec2324/p426).*Post*, p. 1055.be most effectively used in raising and producing those things needed in the prosecution of the present war with Germany, that the provision of section twenty-three hundred and twenty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States which requires on each mining claim located, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than $100 worth of labor to be performed or improvements to be made during each year, be, and the same is hereby, suspended during the years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen: *Provided*, That every claimant of any such mining claim in order to *Provisos*.Notice of retention of claim to be filed.obtain the benefits of this resolution shall file or cause to be filed in the office where the location notice or certificate is recorded on or before December thirty-first, of each of the years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen, a notice of his desire to hold said mining claim under this resolution: *Provided Oil placer locations not included.further*, That this resolution shall not apply to oil placer locations or claims.
This resolution shall not be deemed to amend or repeal the public Former Resolution not affected.*Ante*, p. 243resolution entitled “Joint resolution to relieve the owners of mining claims who have been mustered into the military or naval service of the United States as officers or enlisted men from performing assessment work during the term of such service,” approved July seventeenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen. Approved, October 5, 1917.