Decisions of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and the Secretary of the Interior: Under the United States Mining Statutes of July 26, 1866, July 9, 1870, and May 10, 1872 : with Appendix of Circulars and Forms |
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abstract of title acres act of Congress act of July adverse claim adverse claimant affiant affidavit aforesaid agricultural lands alleging appears application for patent boundaries California certificate character cinnabar citizens Clear Creek County Colorado Colorado Territory Commissioner Comstock lode copy County court decision DEPARTMENT deposits dollars embraced entry field notes GENTLEMEN grant hereby hundred feet INTERIOR issued Jenny Lind Julia gold July 26 ledges legal subdivisions letter linear feet lode claim mineral lands mining act mining claims mining district Nevada ninety days obedient servant parties in interest persons placer claim placer mining plat and field pre-emption premises proceedings proof public lands quartz record Register and Receiver regulations respectfully right of possession rock in place rules of miners San Carlos district sixty days statute surface ground survey Surveyor-general sworn Territory thereof tion township tract tunnel United unsurveyed vein or lode Washington WILLIS DRUMMOND
Popular passages
Page 272 - ... no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located.
Page 57 - A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence.
Page 272 - All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States...
Page 298 - All patents granted, or pre-emption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by the preceding section.
Page 273 - The location must be distinctly marked on the ground so that its boundaries can be readily traced. All records of mining claims hereafter made shall contain the name or names of the locators, the date of the location, and such a description of the claim or claims located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim. On each claim located after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than...
Page 273 - Upon the failure of any one of several coowners to contribute his proportion of the expenditures required hereby, the coowners who have performed the labor or made the improvements may, at the expiration of the year, give such delinquent coowner personal notice in writing or notice by publication in the newspaper published nearest the claim, for at least once a week for ninety days, and if at the expiration of ninety days after such notice in writing or...
Page 297 - ... and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed ; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.
Page 59 - States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States.
Page 236 - The register of the land office, upon the filing of such application, plat, field notes, notices, and affidavits, shall publish a notice that such application has been made, for the period of sixty days, in a newspaper to be by him designated as published nearest to such claim; and he shall also post such notice in his office for the same period.
Page 274 - It shall be the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty days after filing his claim, to commence proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, to determine the question of the right of possession, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment ; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim.