Millard County, Utah

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DETROIT MINING DISTRICT BY LAWS

August 27th, 1879

MILLARD COUNTY. - DETROIT MINING DISTRICT.

Transcript of By Laws of Detroit Mining District, as recorded August, 29, 1879., in Book "D" of Deeds, page 270.

DETROIT MINING DISTRICT August 27th 1879.

     At a meeting of the miners of the Detroit Mining District situated in the House Range of Mountains in Millard County, Utah Territory, James Puffer was elected Chairman, and Charles M. Howard Secretary.

     The following local laws are hereby adopted.

     ART. 1. This district shall be called the Detroit Mining District.

     ART. 2. The boundaries of this District are as follows, commencing at a point five miles east of the United States mineral monument No 1. thence five miles north, thence miles west, thence ten miles south, thence ten miles east, thence five miles north to poiint of beginning.

     ARTICLE 3. The election of Recorder shall be held annually on the last Wednesday of August in each year, Charles M. Howard being duly elected Recorder shall continue in office until the last Wednesday in August 1880.

     ARTICLE 4. The fees for recording shall be five dollars for each mining claim of fifteen hundred feet or less in length. The Recorder or his Deputy shall be obliged to visit a claim and not its boundaries before recording, the same fees shall be allowed for recording a Mill site or other location.

     ARTICLE 5. The Recorder or Deputy after inspecting a claim shall be autherized to issue a certificate of the assessment labor performed thereon, his fees shall be three dollars for each certificate.

     ARTICLE 6. The laws of this District in regard to the length and width of mining claims shall be the same as the United States Mining laws, approved May 10th 1872 with one hundred dollars worth of labor performed each year.

     ARTICLE 7. A Notice of location with description of locality or near to what claims if any shall be recorded in the records of said District withing thirty days from the day of location.

     ARTICLE 8.  The records of this District shall free and open always in the presence of the Recorder for the inspection of interested parties during business hours.

     ARTICLE 9. It shall be the duty of the Recorder on receiving a written reqest from three or more miners of this District to call a public meeting, to post notices in conspicuous places specifying therein the nature of the business to be transacted ten days prior to the date of the meeting.

JAMES PUFFER Chairman

     CHARLES M. HOWARD Secretary.

     Recorded Aug. 29, 1879.