Excerpt from Public Land and Mining Laws of Alaska, the Northwest Territory, and the Province of British Columbia: This Work Contains a Careful Compilation of All the Mining Laws, and All the Public Land Laws Now in Force, of Alaska, of the Northwest Territory, and of the Province of British Columbia; The United States Mining Laws and Regulations Are Also Inserted Gold and silver in the Railway belt have been decided by Privy Council (england) to be vested in the Province of Brit ish Columbia. The gold discoveries extend over Alaska, Northwest Terri tory and the Province of British Columbia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.