30 U.S.C. § 49e : US Code - Section 49E: Annual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures; location anew of claims; perjury

Search 30 U.S.C. § 49e : US Code - Section 49E: Annual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures; location anew of claims; perjury

During each year and until patent has been issued therefor, at
least $100 worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made
on, or for the benefit or development of, in accordance with
existing law, each mining claim in Alaska heretofore or hereafter
located. And the locator or owner of such claim or some other
person having knowledge of the facts may also make and file with
the said recorder of the district in which the claims shall be
situated an affidavit showing the performance of labor or making of
improvements to the amount of $100 as aforesaid and specifying the
character and extent of such work. Such affidavits shall set forth
the following: First, the name or number of the mining claims and
where situated; second, the number of days' work done and the
character and value of the improvements placed thereon; third, the
date of the performance of such labor and of making improvements;
fourth, at whose instance the work was done or the improvements
made; fifth, the actual amount paid for work and improvement, and
by whom paid when the same was not done by the owner. Such
affidavit shall be prima facie evidence of the performance of such
work or making of such improvements, but if such affidavits be not
filed within the time fixed by this section the burden of proof
shall be upon the claimant to establish the performance of such
annual work and improvements. And upon failure of the locator or
owner of any such claim to comply with the provisions of this
section, as to performance of work and improvements, such claim
shall become forfeited and open to location by others as if no
location of the same had ever been made. The affidavits required
may be made before any officer authorized to administer oaths, and
the provisions of sections 1621 and 1622 of title 18, are extended
to such affidavits. Said affidavits shall be filed not later than
ninety days after the close of the year in which such work is
performed.