§49d Miners’ regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized

Summary

Miners in organized mining districts can make their own rules for how to record notices for mining claims, water rights, flumes and ditches, mill sites, and affidavits of labor, as long as those rules do not conflict with this Act or U.S. law. If a district is organized but not in a court recording district, the miners there can choose a mining recorder until the court appoints one. Records made before June 6, 1900 by the U.S. commissioner at Dyea and Skagway, and by the recorder at Douglas City, are declared valid if they do not conflict with records made by the U.S. commissioner at Juneau. Any good‑faith records made before June 6, 1900 in any regularly organized mining district are treated as public records.