CHAPTER 10.

SALT PALACE.

RESOLUTION.

WHEREAS, a corporation is now being formed for the purpose of erecting a salt palace in or near Salt Lake City, of Utah salt, minerals and other materials, for the exhibition of products, natural and manufactured of this inter-mountain region exhibits of art, presentation of spectacular and other forms of entertainment and for such other purposes as may be determined upon. Therefore be it:

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Utah,

Governor Authorized to Invite People to Participate in Salt Palace Exhibition. That the governor be and he is hereby authorized, upon the request of the proper officers of any corporation, which may be formed for exhibition purposes, to extend to the governor and people of such states and territories as he may deem proper an invitation to participate in said exposition, provided, that before any such invitation shall be extended the governor shall first satisfy himself that the company making the request is fully prepared to establish and maintain a creditable exposition.

Approved March 2, 1899.

CHAPTER 11.

DAMAGE TO HIGHWAY.

AN ACT Amending Section 1140, Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, Relating to Driving Animals on Hillside Highway, Providing for the Collection of Damages Thereto and Disposition of Same.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah:

SECTION 1. Section 1140, Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Sec. 1140. Driving Animals on Hillside Highway. Any person who drives a herd of horses, mules, asses, cattle, sheep, goats or swine over a public highway, where such highway is constructed on a hillside, shall be liable for any damage done by such animals in destroying the banks or rolling rocks into or upon such highway; and the action for such damage shall be brought in the name of the county wherein such damage is done, and the amount received shall be paid into the county treasury, and it shall be the duty of the county attorney of such county to prosecute the action.

Approved March 3, 1899.

CHAPTER 12.

HOSPITAL FOR UTAH STATE SCHOOL FOR DEAF AND DUMB.

AN ACT Authorizing the Erection of a Hospital Building for the Utah State School for the Deaf and Dumb, and Making an Appropriation Therefor.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah:

SECTION 1. Appropriation for Hospital Addition to State School for Deaf and Dumb. That the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of erecting a hospital addition to the state school for the deaf and dumb at Ogden, Utah.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect upon approval.
Approved March 3, 1899.

CHAPTER 13.

JUSTICES' COURT.

AN ACT Amending Section 688, Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, Defining Civil Jurisdiction of Justices' Courts.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah:

SECTION 1. That Section 688 of the Revised Statutes of Utah of 1898 is hereby amended to read, as follows:

Sec. 688. Civil Jurisdiction. Justices' Courts. The justices' courts shall have civil jurisdiction within their respective precincts or cities: 1. In actions arising on contract for the recovery of money only, if the sum claimed is less than three hundred dollars.

2. In actions for damages for injury to the person, or for taking or detaining personal property, or for injury to personal property, or for an injury to real property where no issue is raised by the answer involving the plaintiff's title to or possession of the same, if the damages claimed be less than three hundred dollars.

3. In actions for a fine, penalty, or forfeiture, less than three hundred dollars, given by statute or by the ordinances of an incorporated city or town where no issue is raised by the answer involving the legality of any tax, impost, assessment, toll, or municipal fine.

4. In actions upon bonds or undertakings conditioned for the payment of money, if the sum claimed is less than three hundred dollars, though the penalty may exceed that sum. When the payments are to be made by installments, an action may be brought for each installment as it becomes due.

5. In actions to recover the possession of personal property, when the value of such property is less than three hundred dollars.

6. To take and enter judgment on the confession of a defendant, when the amount confessed is less than three hundred dollars. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect upon approval. Approved March 3, 1899.

CHAPTER 14.

MINING.

AN ACT Providing for the Manner of Locating and Recording Quartz and Placer Mining Claims, and Copying Records and Defining the Duties of County Recorders and District Mining Recorders, and Repealing Certain Sections of the Revised Statutes of Utah

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah:

SECTION 1. Extent. No Location to be Made Until Discovery of Vein. A mining claim, whether located by one or more persons, may equal, but shall not exceed, one thousand five hundred feet in length along the vein or lode; but no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located. Any lode mining claim may extend three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, except where adverse rights render a lesser width necessary. The end lines of each claim must be parallel.

Sec. 2. Monument. Notice. The locator, at the time of making the discovery of such vein or lode, must erect a monument at the place of discovery, and post thereon his notice of location, which notice shall contain:

4th. If a lode claim, the number of linear feet claimed in length along the course of the vein each way from the point of discovery; with the width on each side of the center of the vein, and the general course of the vein or lode, as near as may be, and such a description of the claim, located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim.

5th. If a placer or millsite claim, the number of acres or superficial feet claimed, and such a description of the claim or mill site located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim or mill site.

Sec. 3. Boundaries Marked. Mining claims and mill sites must be distinctly marked on the ground so that the boundaries thereof can be readily traced.

Sec. 4. Filing Copy of Notice. Fee. Within thirty days from the date of posting the location notice upon the claim, the locator

or locators, or his or their assigns, must file for record in the office of the county recorder of the county in which such claim is situated, if said claim be situated without and beyond an original mining district, a substantial copy of such notice of location. Such county recorder shall charge and collect a fee of seventy-five cents for filing and recording and indexing and abstracting such notice; provided, that such notice of location shall not be abstracted unless a subsequent conveyance affecting the same property be filed for record, when said notice shall be abstracted.

Sec. 5. Notice of Assessment Work Being Done. Every person or company owning a group of claims and doing the development or assessment work, for said group at one point, shall post a notice upon each claim at the discovery monument stating where such work is being done, and also post a notice at the entrance of the workings, where said work is done, stating the names of the claims for which the work is done.

Sec. 6. Filing Affidavit of Work Done. The owner of any quartz lode or placer mining claim who shall do or perform or cause to be done or performed the annual labor or improvements required by the laws of the United States, in order to prevent a forfeiture of the claim, must, within thirty days after the completion of such work or improvements, file in the office of the county recorder in which the greater part of the mining district, in which such claim is located, is situated, his affidavit or an affidavit or affidavits of the person or persons who performed or directed such labor or made or directed such improvements, and shall file a duplicate thereof with the district mining recorder of the district in which said claim is situated, showing:

1st. The name of the claim and where situated.

2nd. The number of days work done and the character and value of the improvements placed thereon.

3rd. The date or dates of performing said labor and making said improvements and number of cubic feet of earth or rock removed. 4th. At whose instance or request said work was done or improvements made.

5th. The actual amount paid for said labor and improvements, and by whom paid, when the same was not done by the owner or owners of said claim.

Such affidavits or duly certified copies thereof shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated.

Sec. 7. Reorganization of Mining Districts. Mining districts may be organized, and all existing districts may be reorganized and the rules and regulations of the said mining district shall govern the said district according to the laws of the United States, in cases where a district organization is desired; provided, that the nearest boundary line of any mining district shall not be within ten miles from the county recorder's office of any county.

Sec. 8. Copying Records. Expense. Upon application of the district mining recorder of any mining district to the board of county commissioners of the county having in custody the records of the said

mining district, the said board of county commissioners shall cause the records of such district to be copied by the county recorder and shall cause all records of documents pertaining to district mining records, recorded since June 4th, 1896, up to the time of delivery, to be recorded in the original records of the mining district in which the property is situated and the original records when so amended, shall be delivered to such district mining recorder. The copy so made shall remain in the office of the county recorder, and shall be considered as the original record. One-half of the expense of copying such records shall be paid out of the county treasury and onehalf shall be paid out of the state treasury.

Sec. 9. Duplicate Notice of Location. Fee. Penalty. It shall be the duty of every district mining recorder to require every person depositing for record a notice of location to make a duplicate copy thereof, which copy said mining recorder shall carefully compare with the original and mark "duplicate" and endorse thereon his name, and the date and hour and fact of filing in his office of the original. He shall, at the time of filing the duplicate notice with the original, collect, in addition to his own fee, the sum of seventy-five cents, which shall be the fee for the county recorder for recording such duplicate. He shall immediately deposit the duplicate copy with the county recorder of the county in which the greater part of the said mining district is located for record, or forward the same to him by mail or express, or in such other manner as will insure safe transit and delivery. The fee of seventy-five cents shall accompany the duplicate. The county recorder shall record said duplicate with the endorsements thereon for said fee. The record of said duplicate notice in the office of the county recorder shall be considered an original record. Every person neglecting or refusing to comply with any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprison

ment.

Sec. 10. Copies of Notices to be Received as Evidence. Copies of notices of location of mining claims, mill sites and tunnel sites, heretofore recorded in the records of the several mining districts, and copies of the mining rules and regulations in force in the several mining districts, in like manner recorded, heretofore duly certified by the mining recorder, shall be receivable in all tribunals and before all officers of this state as prima facie evidence.

Sec. 11. Where books, records and documents pertaining to the office of district mining recorder have been or shall hereafter be deposited in the office of any county recorder of this state, such county recorder is authorized to make and certify copies therefrom, and such certified copies shall be receivable in all tribunals and before all officers of this state in the same manner and to the same effect as if such records had been originally filed or made in the office of the county recorder.

Sec. 12. County Recorder to Record Rules. Certified Copies.