Decisions (Volume 44) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1916. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... chapter, in the absence of any adverse claim; but nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to impair any lien which may have attached in any way whatever to any mining claim or property thereto attached prior to the issuance of a patent. Sec. 2333. Where the same person, association, or cor-forp DEGREESJ DEGREES' DEGREES poration is in possession of a placer claim, and also a vein placer claim, or lode included within the boundaries thereof, applica- -- tion shall be made for a patent for the placer claim, with ioMay, i872, the statement that it includes such vein or lode, and in 7, v.'Si. '*' such case a patent shall issue for the placer claim, subject to the provisions of this chapter, including such vein or lode, upon the payment of five dollars per acre for such vein or lode claim and twenty-five feet of surface on each side thereof. The remainder of the placer claim or any placer claim not embracing any vein or lode claim shall be paid for at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per acre, together with all costs of proceedings; and where a vein or lode, such as is described in section twenty-three hundred and twenty, is known to exist within the boundaries of a placer claim, an application for a patent for such placer claim which does not include an application for the vein or lode claim shall be construed as a conclusive declaration that the claimant of the placer claim has no right of possession of the vein or lode claim; but where the existence of a vein or lode in a placer claim is not known, a patent for the placer claim shall convey all valuable mineral and other deposits within the boundaries thereof. Sec. 2334. The surveyor-general of the United States . . - gena, t a may appoint in each land district containing mineral point surveylands as many competent surveyo..