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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-73not60

§49d Miners’ Regulations for Recording Notices in Alaska; Certain Records Legalized

Title 30 › Chapter 2— MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL › § 49d

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Miners in organized mining districts may make rules for recording notices about claims, water works, mill sites, and affidavits, if those rules do not conflict with the Act or U.S. law. If no court recorder exists, miners may elect a recorder until the court appoints one. Good-faith records made before June 6, 1900, in any such district are public. U.S. commissioner records at Dyea and Skagway and Douglas City records before that date are validated unless they conflict with Juneau records.

Full Legal Text

Title 30, §49d

Mineral Lands and Mining — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

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.

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References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, means act
June 6, 1900, ch. 786, 31 Stat. 321. For complete classification of title I of this act to the Code, see Tables. Title III of this act provided for the Alaska Civil Code. Codification Section is comprised of the two provisos of section 16 of act
June 6, 1900, and part of the last sentence of that section, which were formerly classified to section 383 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. The remainder of section 16 (excluding the last sentence) which was formerly classified to section 120 of Title 48, was omitted from the Code.

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Citation

30 U.S.C. § 49d

Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60