The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1868-08-01
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR,
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DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR,
GENERAL LAND OFFICE, April II, 1868, !
Register and Receiver, Stockton, Califor
lia- Get temen In the case of John T.
Mclean, applicant for patent for the Pinon
5lanco Gold Quartz Claim, I. 9 S. Il. lG f;
u the Ccullervlile Mining District, Mariposa
ounty, aud in the Stockton Land District,
California. this office finds evidence of com
)lance with the requirements with the
dining Act Of July 2G, 1866 on the follow
og points, to-wit:
l-Of the posting of notice and diagram
n the claimed premises for ninety days.
2-Of the publication of notice of claim
mt's application in the Mariposa Gazette for
ame length OF time.
3-Ot the posting Of notice in the Regis
er's Office for ninety days.
4-Of survey and plan of the premises,
approved and ndorsed by the Surveyor Cen
nal, rs required by the third section of said
Act Of July 90, 1866.
5-Of the expenditure Of labor and inn
orovements to the value of at least 1000
Ipon said claimed premises.
6--That the price of land embraced in
the survey of said claim, together with the
fees for making survey and publishing no.
tice have been paid by claimant.
10 reference to the following points, how
ever, no testimony appears:
7-Whether this claim was located before
or after the passage of said Act of July 2G,
1866. If the location was subsequent, the
size of tho claim is limited to 5000 feet on
the vein or lode. If it was made prior to
the passage of said Act, the local mining
customs govern the question AS to size OF
claim, and in such case, there must be evil
dence.
s-That the local mining customs of the
Coulterville Mining District permit the loca.
tien by any one company of G000 feet on
th. same vein or lode The claimant has
fel here printed copy Of what pnrports
to be the mining customs of said district,
adopted March 8, 1864, which are entirely
silent as to the number of feet that may be
located by a company, hence the right to
locale so large claim as that covered by
the lnon Blanco must be established by
other and additional proof.
j. lD6Ib ID uO cNlucDCO WIob tuV P"pO'o
that the premises surveyed for claimant EN-
brace but one vein or lode. The report OF
the Deputy Surveyor, aud all the other pa
pers in the case, are silent on that point
The best showing the parties can produce
in that respect should be called for, although
in the issuing of the patent care should be
taken to restrict the conveyance to one vein
or lode, as expressly required in the fourth
section of sad Act Of July 26, 1866 If lo'
cations are recorded in said mining district,
the proper way to prove the date Of the To-
cation is by certified copy from the records
of the Mining Recorder Should a case oc.
cur of a claim not being recorded in dis
trict having Recorder of mining claims,
the omission must be proven by certificate
from that officer stating that no such loca
ton appears upon his records or files, and
proof of the location must be made by two
or more dsinterested witnesses cognlzant OF
the facts, and able to certify as to the date.
In auv case where record evidence is wanted
by reason of there being no Office, or other
cause, this mode will be pursued.
You will exercise a careful supervision
over the introduction of testimony, and re'
port all facts necessary t. rrorer under
standing Of the rights of claimants, with IN
formation touching the credbility Of wit
nesses.
You will notify the claimant and all others
interested Of the additional proof required
and without unnecessary delay take and
transmit. tie same, that patent may issue.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOS S. WILSON, Commissioner.