. Adventures in Bolivia . ent Zam to inform Don Lisandro Mendizabal,who lived at Cuti, twenty-seven miles off. Thenearest house was Jose Marias, eighteen miles Don Lisandro I sent my application tothe Government in La Paz, who two months latersent down one of their officials with six soldiers togive me the documents of formal documents still hold good, and are in mypossession, signed by the Minister of Mines, andwitnessed according to law. It may be of interest here to give the rulesissued by General Jose Manuel Pardo regardingtapadas (hidden or buried treasure). A
. Adventures in Bolivia . ent Zam to inform Don Lisandro Mendizabal,who lived at Cuti, twenty-seven miles off. Thenearest house was Jose Marias, eighteen miles Don Lisandro I sent my application tothe Government in La Paz, who two months latersent down one of their officials with six soldiers togive me the documents of formal documents still hold good, and are in mypossession, signed by the Minister of Mines, andwitnessed according to law. It may be of interest here to give the rulesissued by General Jose Manuel Pardo regardingtapadas (hidden or buried treasure). A tapada shall be the property of the finderprovided he comply with the following conditions : The finder must not absent himself from thespot even for a day until he has been given formalpossession. He must notify the owner of the soil,if it has an owner. The finder on finding bin-iedtreasiue must at once notify the authority ap-pointed by the Government of La Paz, who willat once inform the supreme authorities in La Paz;. QZ < 5 THE CABALLO CUNCO TREASURE 171 they will despatch a detachment of soldiers andone or more mining engineers to take out theburied treasure, which will be divided up in LaPaz, 25 per cent going to the Government and75 per cent to the finder. The owner of the soil may participate in onehalf of the finders share, provided he comply withthe following conditions. Six weeks or forty-twodays after the authorities have been notified, hemust present himself at La Paz, and give informa-tion. He must then within the time specifiedrender assistance to the finder by providing, pay-ing and maintaining thirty men to uncover thetapada. If he fails to comply with these condi-tions within the time allowed, namely, forty-twodays, he loses all rights. Keeping my saddle mule down here to use whenwanted, I sent Manuel with the horse and theother animals up the valley where the grass wasgood, telling him to come down in a weeks timefor more provisions, Jose Maria wanted to
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