The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-08-23
Fees to the Government for Titles 10 Grounds
and Mining Claims.

The following We acknowledge as hav-
ing received from Hon. Jos. s. Wilson,
Commissioner of the General Land Office
at Washington:
In the 18th section Of the Act of Con-
gress approved July Q, 1870, To amend
an Act granting the right of way to ditch
and canal owner over the public lands,
and for other purposes, it is declared
That Registers and Receivers shall re-
ceive the same fees for services under
this Act as are provided by law for like
services under other Acts of Congress-
Now the Mining Act is substantially a
p~re-emption law, as the occupant, under
the local customs of miners, is the only
person privileged to purchase, and an
application for a patent under the mining
statute assimilates to a declaratory state
ment in the case Of prescriptions under
the general pre-emption law.
1t is therefore proper TO apply the pro-
visions as to fees in general pre-emption
cases to the special prescriptions under
the Mining Act. Hence, Registers and
Receivers in the States of California,
Oregon and Nevada, and in the Terrific
ries Of Washington, Colorado. New Mex
leo, Arizona, Idaho and Montana, are
entitled 10 charge applicants for mining
patents, at the date of fling the diagram
or making the application, the sum of
80, being $50 each to tie Register and
Receiver.
For taking testimony, either in the
form of afiidayits or in writing out the
answers of witnesses, they are allowed q
joint charge Of 22Z cents per 100 words,
these being the fees specified in the Act
of Congress, approved 21st March, 1864,
sAmendatory of the Homestead Law,
and for other purposes u. S. Statutes,
vol. Is, p. 35), which we assimilate to
services as 10 mining claims.
Then the claimant has TO pay the ex-
pense OF surveying the claim and making
a plat thereof, the cost Of the publication
of the notice in the newspaper, and 80
per acre for the surface ground embraced
by the survey.
Such are the items Of expense incident
to obtaining a patent for a mining claim,
so far as the United States or its officers
are concerned.
From the foregoing it will be seen that
the fees payable.to the Register and Re-
ceiver by the mining applicant are:
LIST. $50 to each for fling diagram
and application.
I'd. 22I cents per hundred words for
reducing testimony to writing under the
principle laid down in the 4th and 9Th
sections Of the said Homestead Act of
March 81, 1854. should the applicant de-
sire it taken down by those officers in
stead of by themselves or other persons
in the presence Of the land officers.
The other payments required of appli-
Giants for mining patents are:
Sd. To the Receiver, the sum Of So
and $3.50 per acre, respectively, for lode
and placer claims, as shown by the final
survey, and -
4th. A1deposit, in favor of the U. s..
Treasurer according TO existing ~instruc-
tons, of the amount estimated by the
Surveyor General to cover the actual
expenses Of survey, plat, and cost Of
publication Of notice.
These are the only charges, fees, or
emoluments which, by law or regula-
tons, the Register and Receiver have
any right 10 exact from the mining APP
plicant, and none other must be charged
or received under any circumstances.