Harrisburg Mining District (Utah). Recorder
Abstract
Biography/History Notes
In 1897 the Utah Legislature enacted a mining law, which abolished the office of mining district recorder. County recorders of the respective counties assumed all the duties and responsibilities previously performed by mining district recorders, (Laws of Utah, 1897, chapter 36, Mining Claims) and all books previously kept by district recorders were deposited in the office of the county recorder.
Utah law recognized mining district recorders as public officials, and deemed the records in their custody to be official public records, receivable in the courts of the Territory. Utah law also required that the mining rules and regulations established by each mining district should be recorded by the county recorder in the county where the mining district was located (Compiled Laws of Utah, 1876, Chapter 10). The Harrisburg Mining District recorder was responsible to record all mining claims within the mining district. District by-laws regulated the manner in which claims should be marked and the amount and specific kind of labor which was expected once claims had been recorded.
The mining district recorder was elected from among the mining claim holders within the mining district.
The recorder appointed deputies as necessary to assist in carrying out his responsibilities, and he collected fees for each recording and also for examining the stakes or monuments which marked claims.