21-52-15. Expenses of annual assessment work on mining claims included in redemption price--Time of performing annual labor. In all redemptions from sales of unpatented mining claims under execution or mortgage foreclosure, there shall be added to the total amount otherwise required to redeem such sum or sums, if any, as may be necessarily and actually expended by the purchaser or redemptioner, after such sale and before the redemption, in performing or completing the annual assessment work, not exceeding one hundred dollars for any one claim sold.
This section shall not apply to claim or claims on which the owner or redemptioner shall himself have performed the necessary annual labor during the period above specified. It shall not be deemed necessary under this section for the purchaser to perform the annual labor on such claims until after the first day of November of each year.
Source: SL 1949, ch 142, § 17; SDC Supp 1960, § 37.5617.