DCHP-3

miners' meeting

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a meeting of the miners at a camp to pass laws governing behavior, to try offenders, to settle disputes, etc.

Quotations

1858
A "Miners' Meeting" was held, which proceeded to legislate against the sale of liquor without a license and the sale of fire-arms to the Indians.
1860
A miners' meeting had been called to determine a dispute between men named Myers and Merrit, with regard to the right of the former to run a tail race through the latters' claim.
1907
Before the organization of government in the Yukon, the miners themselves, at miners ' meetings, framed and adopted certain primitive regulations, which were strictly adhered to.
1948
Meanwhile, on August 22, a miners meeting was held on the hillside opposite a claim, No. 17.