The Shasta courier., 1870-08-27

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patent may issue, as in other cases.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That
the President of the United States be, and
he is hereby authorized to establish addi-
tioDal land districts, and to appoint the
necessary officers under existing laws,
whenever he may deem it necessary for
the public convenience, in executing the
provisions of this act frT
Sec. s. And be it further enacted, That
the right of way for the construction of
highways over public lands, not reserved
for public uses, is hereby granted.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That
whenever, by priority of possession, rights
to the use OF water mining, agricultural,
manufacturing or other purposes, have
vested and accrued, and he same are re-
cognized and acknowledged by the local
customs, laws and decisions of Courts, the
possessors and owners of such vested rights
shall be maintained and protected in the
same; and the right of way for the con-
struction of bitches and cannals for the
purposes aforesaid is hereby acknowledged
AMI confirmed: Provided, however, That
whenever, after the passage of this act
any person or persons shall, in the construc-
tion of any ditch or canal. injure or damage
the possession of any settler on the public
doman, the party committing such injury
or damage shall be liable to the party
injured for such injury or damage.
Sec 10. And be it further enacted,
That whenever, prior to the passage Of this
act, upon the land heretofore designated as
mineral lands, which have been excluded
from survey and sale, there have been
homesteads made by citizens o. the United
States, or persons who have declared their
/ intention to become citizens, which home
steads have been made, improved and used
for agricultural purposes, and upon which
there have been no valuable mines OF gold.
silver, cinnabar or copper discovered, and
which are properly agricultural lands, tie
said settlers or owners of such homesteads
shall have right of pre-emt;on thereto,
and shall be entitled to purchase the same
at the price of 81 25 per acre, and in
quantity not to exceed enc hundred and
sixty acres; or said parties may avail
thems Ives of the pro, sions of the act of
Congress, approved May 20, 1862, entitled
IAN Act to secure homesteads to actual
settlers on the public domain and acts
amendatory thereof.
Sec IL. and be it further enacted,
That upon the survey of the lands aore-
said, the Secretary OF the Interior may
designate and set apart such portions of the
said lands as are clearly agricultural lands,
which lands shall thereafter be subject to
pre- eemption and sale as other public lands
OF the United States, and subject to all the
laws and regulations applicable to the same.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
OF Representatives OF the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
Act granting the right of way TO ditch.
and canal owners over tle public lands,
and for other purposes, approved July 26.
1866, be and the same is herebp amended
by adding thereto the following additional
sections, numbered twelve thirteen. four
teen fifteen, sixteen and seventeen, respec-
lively, which shall hereafter constitute aad
form a part Of the aforesaid Act.
See. II. and be it further enacted.
That claims usually called "placers," in
cluding all forms of deposit, excepting
veins of quartz, or other rock in place
shall be subject to entry and patent under
this Act, under like circumstances and
conditions, and upon similar proceeding,
as are provided for vein or lode claims
provided, that where the lands have been
previously surveyed by the United States,
the ensry in its exterior limits shall, con.
form to the legal subdivisions of the public
lands, no further survey or plat in such
case being required, and he lands may be
paid for at the rate of two dollars and fifty
cents per acre; provided further that legal
subdivisions Of forty acres may be subdi-
vlded into ten acre tracts and that two or
more persons, or association of persons,
having contiguous claims Of any size,
although such claims may be less than ten
acres each may make joint entry thereof
and provided further, that no location of
placer claim hereafter made shall exceed
lou acres for any one person, or association
OF persons; which location shall conform
to the United States surveys aud nothing
in this section contained shall defeat or i'm
pair any bona ide pc emption or homestead
claim, upon agricultural lands, or authorize
the sale OF the improvements of any bona
tide settler to any purchaser
Sec. l3. And be it further enacted,
That where said person or association, they
aud their grantors. shall have held and
worked their said claims for period equal
to the time prescribed by the statute of
limitations for mining claims of the State
or Territory where the same may be situa-
ted evidence Of such possession and working
OF the claims for such period shall be suf
ticient to establish right to patent
thereto under this Act, in the absence of
any adverse claim; provided, however, that
nothing in this Act shall be deemed tn
impair any lien which may have attached
IL any way whatever to any mining claim
or property thereto attached prior to the
issuance of patent
Sec. IA And be it further enacbed. That