30 U.S.C. § 49d — Miners’ regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized

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This law lets organized Alaska mining districts write their own rules for recording mining-claim notices, water rights, and similar records — as long as those rules don't conflict with federal mining law. It also lets miners in a district with no court-established recording office elect their own recorder. It legalizes certain records made before June 6, 1900, at specific Alaska locations.

Miners in any organized mining district in Alaska can write rules for recording notices about mining-claim locations, water rights, flumes, ditches, mill sites, and labor affidavits — as long as those rules don't conflict with this Act or other general federal mining laws. If a mining district isn't inside any recording district set up by a court, the miners there can elect their own recorder to handle recordings until a court appoints one. The law also legalizes two sets of older records: all records the United States commissioner properly made before June 6, 1900, at Dyea, Skagway, and the recorder's office at Douglas City — as long as they don't conflict with records properly made at Juneau — and any records made in good faith before that date in any regularly organized mining district. Both sets count as official public records.

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Miners in any organized mining district may make rules and regulations governing the recording of notices of location of mining claims, water rights, flumes and ditches, mill sites and affidavits of labor, not in conflict with this Act or the general laws of the United States; and nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to prevent the miners in any regularly organized mining district not within any recording district established by the court from electing their own mining recorder to act as such until a recorder therefor is appointed by the court: Provided further, All records regularly made by the United States commissioner prior to June 6, 1900, at Dyea, Skagway, and the recorder at Douglas City, not in conflict with any records regularly made with the United States commissioner at Juneau, are legalized. And all records made in good faith prior to June 6, 1900, in any regularly organized mining district are made public records.

Source credit: (June 6, 1900, ch. 786, title I, § 16, 31 Stat. 328.)

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1900Enacted · Act of June 6, 1900, ch. 786 · 31 Stat. 328

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 786 on 1900-06-06.

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