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"Provided that all work done outside of a mining claim with intent to work the same shall, if such work has direct relation and is in direct proximity to the claim, be deemed, if to the satisfaction of a responsible Government officer, to be work done on the claim for the purposes of this section;

"Provided, further, that any free miner or company of free miners holding adjoining claims not exceeding eight in number may, notwithstanding anything in the regulations to the contrary, work the same in partnership under the provisions of the regulations upon filing a notice of their intention with the Mining Recorder and upon obtaining a certificate from him, for which a fee of two dollars will be charged. This certificate will entitle the holders thereof to perform on any one or more of such claims all the work required to entitle him or them to a certificate of work for each claim so held by him or them. If such work shall not be done, or if such certificate shall not be so obtained and recorded in each and every year, the claim shall be deemed to be abandoned.

"The holder of a claim may at his option, in lieu of the work required to be done thereon each year, pay to the Mining Recorder in whose office the claim is recorded the sum of two hundred dollars for each of the first three years, but for the fourth and succeeding years the sum of four hundred dollars must be paid in lieu of work done on the location or in connection therewith as provided by the regulations. A certificate from the Mining Recorder that such payment has been made shall relieve the person making it from the necessity of doing any work during the year.

"If at the end of the year the annual amount of work has not been performed, nor the commutation fee paid, as above stated, the sum of $250 shall be charged against the claim, and the said amount shall constitute a lien on such claim, and no transfer of title to such claim shall be recorded until the said amount of $250 shall have been paid to the Mining Recorder.

"If the lien is not discharged by payment at the expiration of three months from the end of the year, the claim shall revert to the Crown, and shall not be open for re-location, and may be disposed of as the Minister of the Interior may direct.

"No claim forfeited from whatever cause shall be re-located, but every such claim shall revert to the Crown to be disposed of as the Minister of the Interior shall direct.

"Any amounts received in lieu of assessment work shall form part of the Consolidated Revenue."

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXIII., p. 914.

By Order in Council of the 7th of October, 1899, the Order in Council of the 5th September, 1899, fixing the conditions for the importation into the Yukon Territory of spirituous and malt liquors or other intoxicants was cancelled, and the Minister of the Interior was authorized to issue permits for the importation into the Yukon Territory of spirituous and malt liquors or other intoxicants upon the following conditions:

1. That each permit so issued by the Minister of the Interior shall be signed by such officer as the Minister may designate for the purpose.

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2. That the fee to be paid for each permit shall be the sum of two dollars per gallon of strength to be in each case, if necessary, specified in permit, and that such fees shall be and become part of the liquor revenue of the Yukon Territory.

3. That any person taking or importing or attempting to take or import spirituous or malt liquors or other intoxicants into the Yukon Territory who has not first obtained a permit from the Minister of the Interior in the manner herein before mentioned shall be liable to the penalties provided by the Ordinance in that behalf enacted by the Commissioner in Council of the Territory.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. xxxIII., p. 1854.

By Order in Council of the 24th of October, 1899, authority was given to issue leases without competition to such applicants as can satisfy the Commissioner of the Yukon Territory that the applicant himself, or a person acting for him, was upon and actually prospected, prior to the 3rd December, 1898, the location applied for, and upon compliance otherwise with the provisions of the said regulations.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXIII., p. 966.

By Order in Council of the 27th of October, 1899, the action taken. by the Minister of the Interior in dealing with the claims on Dominion Creek reserved for the Crown, was approved, and he was authorized to dispose of any claims and fractions in the Yukon Territory reserved for the Crown in such manner as he may decide.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. xXXIII., p. 966.

By Order in Council of the 27th of October, 1899, under the Act 62-63 Vic., chap. 18, authority was granted to the Minister of the Interior to execute releases of the sureties upon any bond given to secure repayment for seed grain furnished by the Crown to persons in the North-west Territories in every case where, upon inquiry, it is shown to the satisfaction of the Minister of the Interior that land owned by, or entered as a homestead by, the primary debtor is liable and is in the opinion of the Minister sufficient security for the sum owed by the primary debtor; under the following circumstances:

First; in which the primary debtor has already secured a patent for his land and the bond from which the sureties are to be discharged is either the only encumbrance against such land, or, where there are other encumbrances affecting the land such bond takes priority of all other of such encumbrances except such of them only as may be in favour of the Crown;

Second; in which although letters patent have not yet issued for the land of the primary debtor he has applied for and established his right under the provisions in that behalf contained in the Dominion Lands Act, and its amendments, to a certificate of recommendation for patent, and in which the

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bond from which the sureties are to be discharged is either the only encumbrance against such land, or, where there are other encumbrances affecting the land, such bond takes priority of all other of such encumbrances except such of them only as may be in favour of the Crown; and

Third; in any other case in which though letters patent for the land which is held by the primary debtor as a homestead, have not been applied for, it is shown to the satisfaction of the Minister of the Interior that such land is liable to the bond from which the sureties thereto desire to be released and discharged, and is in the opinion of the said Minister sufficient security for the sum owed upon such bond by the primary debtor.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. xXXIII., p. 1217.

By Order in Council of the 1st of December, 1899, under the provisions of the 4th section of chapter 47 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, certain lands, comprising an area of 148,811-39 acres, as set forth in Schedule attached, of lands selected by the Commission appointed to select swamp lands to be granted to the province of Manitoba under the said Act, and which have been found available, were vested in Her Majesty Queen Victoria for the purposes of the province of Manitoba.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. xxxIII., p. 1217.

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By Order in Council of the 23rd of January, 1900, the annual rental of timber berths situated between Eagle Pass and Yale B. C., were reduced from five cents an acre to five dollars per square mile, and the regulations established by the Order in Council of the 1st July, 1898, were amended accordingly. Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXIII., p. 2007.

By Order in Council of the 30th of January, 1900, the Order in Council of the 16th day of March, 1894, concerning the issue of leases of school lands in the North-west Territories for grazing purposes, was amended by providing that the notice required to be given to the lessee under clause 1 of the terms and conditions of the said Order in Council shall be three months instead of one year.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXIII., p. 1783.

By Order in Council of the 30th of January, 1900, the regulations governing placer mining in the Yukon Territory established by the Order in Council of the 18th January, 1898, and amendments thereof, were amended as follows:--

1. That the following be substituted for section 33 of the regulations :"Any free miner having duly located a claim may obtain an entry therefor for one or five years by paying to the Mining Recorder in advance a fee of $15.00 for one year or $75.00 for five years."

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2. That section 39 of the regulations be amended by leaving out the words "Any free miner having duly located and recorded a claim shall be entitled to hold it for a period of one year from the recording of the same," and substituting therefor the following provision: "Any free miner having duly located and recorded a claim shall be entitled to hold it for the period for which he received an entry."

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXIII., p. 1907.

By Order in Council of the 12th of February, 1900, in amendment of clause 3 of the regulations governing the administration of Dominion lands in the Provisional District of the Yukon established by Order of the Governor General in Council on the 7th July, 1898, the making of the lots and streets of the town sites of the Yukon Territory of such size and width as may be found advisable, was authorized.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXIII., p. 1854.

By Order in Council of the 20th of February, 1900, the regulations governing placer mining in the Yukon Territory, established by an Order of the Governor in Council dated 18th January, 1898, and amended by subsequent Orders in Council, were amended as follows:

1. That clause 2 which provides that a free miner's certificate may be granted for one year shall be and is hereby amended so that a certificate may be issued for one or more years not exceeding five, upon payment in advance of the fees prescribed by the regulations for each year covered by the certificate.

2. That clause 19, which provides that the discoverer of a new mine shall be allowed one claim of 500 feet in length; that a party of two discoverers shall be allowed two claims amounting together to 1000 feet in length, and that each member beyond two in number, a claim of the ordinary size, shall be and is hereby amended by giving to one discoverer a claim of 1000 feet in length, and to a party of two discoverers two claims amounting together to 1500 feet in length, and that no royalty shall be imposed on the output of such claims.

3. That the definition of the rear boundaries of claims as specified in clauses 10, 11, 12, and 13 shall be and is hereby amended by providing that the rear boundaries of a creek or gulch claim which run in the general direc tion of the creek or gulch be defined by measuring 1000 feet on each side of the centre of the stream or gulch; that the boundary of a river claim which runs in the general direction of the river be defined by measuring 1000 feet from low water mark of the river; and that the rear boundary of a hill claim shall be defined by measuring 1000 feet from its front boundary.

4. That all claims for which entries have been granted in the past, may be defined in the manner specified in the preceding paragraph by order of the Gold Commissioner on the application of the registered owner thereof, where such proceeding will not interfere with any mining claim or property owned or held by any other person.

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By Order in Council of the 2nd of March, 1900, in amendment of the regulations established by Order in Council of July 7, 1898, the price of lands situated south of White Horse Rapids in the Yukon Territory, not adjacent to a line of railway, a river or other water course, was reduced to a figure varying from $2.50 to $5 per acre, according to the quality of the soil and the position of the land to be sold; and the maximum area to be sold to one applicant was fixed at one thousand acres.

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. xxxIII., p. 2006.

By Order in Council of the 2nd of March, 1900, clause 3 of the regulations for the disposal of mining locations in the Yukon Territory to be worked by hydraulic or other mining process, made by Order in Council of 3rd December, 1898, as amended by Order in Council dated 24th October, 1899,

was amended to read as follows:

"To any person who files an application in the Department of the Interior at Ottawa for a location previously prospected by him, or his authorized agent at the time the location was prospected, a lease will be issued provided he is the first qualified applicant therefor. Before the issue of any such lease there shall be filed in the Department of the Interior at Ottawa a report from the Gold Commissioner to the effect that it has been proved to his satisfaction that the applicant himself, or a person acting for him, was upon and actually prospected, prior to the date of the application, the ground included in the location and that the ground included in the location is not being worked and is not suitable to be worked under the regulations governing placer mining."

Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXIII., p. 2198.

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By Order in Council of the 2nd of March, 1900, it was ordered as follows:Surveys of claims already made by a Dominion Land Surveyor either employed by the Dominion Government or by the miners themselves, shall, if approved by the Commissioner of the Yukon Territory, and after a notice of such survey being advertised for three months in one of the newspapers published at Dawson, if unprotested, be made to define absolutely the boundaries of the claims surveyed; and if at any time a holder of a claim should wish to have his boundaries defined, he may employ a Dominion Land Surveyor to make a survey thereof, and after publishing a notice in the manner above mentioned, such survey shall define the boundaries of the claims surveyed. If, within three months from the time such notice is published, the survey is protested, the protest shall be heard and decided upon by the Gold Commissioner. The survey of all claims shall be made under instructions from the Commissioner of the Yukon Territory and approved by him before they can be accepted as defining the boundaries of the claims surveyed."