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possession of all veins or lodes within three thousand feet from the face of such 
tunnel on the line thereof, not previously known to exist, discovered in such 
tunnel, to the same extent as if discovered from the surface; and locations on 
the line of such tunnel of veins or lodes not appearing on the surface, made by 
other parties after the commencement of the tunnel, and while the same is being 
prosecuted with reasonable diligence, shall be invalid; but failure to prosecute 
the work on the tunnel for six months shall be considered as an abandonment 
of the right to all undiscovered veins on the line of such tunnel. 
Sec. 2324. The miners of each mining-district may make regulations not in 
conflict with the laws of the United States, or with the laws of the State or 
Territory in which the district is situated, governing the location, manner of 
recording, amount of work necessary to hold possession of a mining-claim, sub¬ 
ject to the following requirements: The location must be distinctly marked on 
the ground so that its boundaries can be readily traced. All records of mining- 
claims hereafter made shall contain the name or names of the locators, the date 
of the location, and such a description of the claim or claims located by refer¬ 
ence to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim. 
On each claim located after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and sev¬ 
enty-two, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than one hundred 
dollars’ worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each 
year. On all claims located prior to the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred 
and seventy-two, ten dollars’ worth of labor shall be performed or improve¬ 
ments made by the tenth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and 
each year thereafter, for each one hundred feet in length along the vein until a 
patent has been issued therefor ; but where such claims are held in common, 
such expenditure may be made upon any one claim; and upon a failure to com¬ 
ply with these conditions, the claim or mine upon which such failure occurred 
shall be open to relocation in the same manner as if no location of the same 
had ever been made, provided that the original locators, their heirs, assigns, or 
legal representatives, have not resumed work upon the claim after failure and 
before such location. Upon the failure of any one of several co-owners to con¬ 
tribute his proportion of the expenditures required hereby, the co-owners who 
have performed the labor or made the improvements may, at the expiration of 
the year, give such delinquent co-owner personal notice in writing or notice by 
publication in the newspaper published nearest the claim, for at least once a 
week for ninety days, and if at the expiration of ninety days after such notice 
in writing or by publication such delinquent should fail or refuse to contribute 
his proportion of the expenditure required by this section, his interest in the 
claim shall become the property of his co-owners who have made the required 
expenditures. 
