ba, thence
down the Yuba to the mouth of Native American ravine to the starting place.
3il. Each claim shall be one hundred feet square.
4th. Each claim or company's claim shall be worked every ten days, Sundays excepted, with one full day's labor and renewal of notice. When a company ha^ claims adjoining, working on one shall be considered as work- ing on the whole. All claims not workaljle to advantage for M-ant of water, or any other cause, shall hold good three months by being recorded, and a record of the causes, stating the reason or reasons why they are not work- able.
5th. That no person shall hold more than one claim by location; he may, however, hold as many by purchase as are worked, according to the laws, provided, he has a honafide bill of sale signed by two witnesses.
6th. There shall be a recorder elected for the term of one year, whose duty it shall be to record these laws and all others that may be passed here- after in a book prepared for that purpose, to record all claims, transfers, and bills of sale, for which he shall receive fifty cents for each claim, trans- fer or bill of sale recorded.
7 th. Each company shall have its ground defined by substantial stakes, with notice of the number of claims held and name of the secretary of said company on the notice.
Sth. That all disputes that may arise in regard to claims shall be decided L--
by arbitration of the miners of this district, and each party shall choose a disinterested man, and the two a third one to arbitrate the matter.
9th. That the arbitrators' and witnesses' fees shall be the same as allowed by the county court to jurors, and paid by the party in ilefault.
10th. That these laws may be altered or amended by giving ten days notice, and signed by twelve interested miners of this district, stating the object in writing, and sticking up said notice in five of the most conspicuous places in this district, by a vote of the majority of the miners interested in this district being present at such a meeting.
11 til. That E. D. Dean be and is hereby elected recorder.
12th, That these laws shall be in full etfect after this date, January 18, 1854.
At a meeting of the miners of Pleasant Flat held August 1, 1854, E. Mills was called to the chair, and E. P. Palmer appointed .secretary. The following by- laws were adopted :
That said flat shall be called Pleasant Flat Mining district.
Article 1 st. Pleasant Flat district is bounded on the lower end by the caiion, or the claims known as Jewett & Co. 's claims, and extends up the Flat to the upper end of H. H. Roberts & Co. 's claims, and on. each side from hiUtohiU.
Article 2d. Each claim in the creek shall consist of sixty feet in length, extending from bank to bank, and not interfering with claims formerly lo- cated.
Article 3d. Each claim in the flat shall consist of eighty feet square.
Article 4th. Each miner on said flat shall be entitled to one claim by /
location and five by purchase.
Article 5th. When there i j not sufficient water to supply each company of men in the Flat, they shall be limited to forty-five inches each, with six- inch pressure, commencing at tlie lower co., and extending up the flat as the water fails, until they are all limited, allowing the upper cos. the first right.
Article 6th. Each man or co. is required to have his claims recorded ou the secretary's liook, and to perform one full day's work on his or co. 's claims every tenth day, when he or co. caji ol)tain the amount of water specified in the 5th article. Otherwise his claims are forfeitable, if recorded from the first of November, 1854, until the first of May
