Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-08-17
IOFFICIAL.I
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed az Second Session Of Forty first Congress

IPUBLIc-No. lEJ
and for othsI owners over the public lands
Bs "a enacted 81 ae senate and HOss, q, Repr.ssn-
a,isrlbed, That the act granting the right Of way
aca sad SsDa over the public lands and
eighteen hundred and sixty six, be- and the same is
sd s5fSS ended By aiding Thereto the tooSing
teen hfteen, sixteen, and seventeen, respectively,
WHICH shall hereafter constitute and form 8 part Of
SIC; II .And BE- At CN,f4er enacted; That claims,
usually called "placers,n including all forms Of de
posit excepting veins of quartz, or other rock in
place, shall be subject to entry and patent under
vein or lode claims Prorids3, That whsre the lands
sS in s Sa ooneTm to the
legal subdivisions Of the publie lands, no further
lands may be paid for the Of two dollars end
MY cents per acre; P-or Ned JarfstL That Legal
ten acre tracts; and that two more persons,
q persons HAVING nc CLAIMS OF
sores each, may make joint entry thereof 4Hd pro
hereafter made, shall exceed hundred and sixty
acres Tor any ole person or assoc ation of persons
surveys and nothing this section contained sh Al.
d,fest or impair any bona fde pre- emption home
sale OF the improvements Of any bona de settler
sES Is And BE- u further sna,tsd. That where said
peron or the, and their grantors, shall
ha, hed and worked thsir said claims for period
tatons for mining claims OF the State or Territory
whore the same may be situated, evidence OF such
pssSessOn and working OF the claims for such period
shall be sufficient to establish q right to a patent
thereto under this act in the absence of any
shall De 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
SsC II. And De II further enar,,d That all ex
parte afdayits required 20 be made under this act
or the act Of which it Is smendatory, be verified
before any officer authorized to administer osths
within the land district where the claims may be
SIC. Is. And be az further snar,ed That registers
and receivers shall receive the fees services
under this act provided by law for like ser
shall be given to the foregoing act according to such
regulations as may be PRESCRIBED by the Commits
SIC. Is. And Be utVrthsr enacted. That so much of
the act Of March third, eighteen hundred aud ftv-
three entitled An pct % provide for the survey of
that other than township Hines Shall be survey.
And the pase Surveys hereby eHens nysr
such lands: Pr0rs That all subdiyiding of sur
yeyed lands iato lots less than hundred and sixty
acres may be done by county and local surveyors
the expense OF the claimants: AHd propided Tyrthr
That nothing herein Contained shall require the sur
SEC. "a. And be % further enacted, That none of
the rights conferred by sections Ave. eight, and nine
OF the act TO which this act is amendsfory shall be
abrogated by this act, and the same are hereby
extended to all public lands affected BY this act and
all patents granted, or pre- emption homesteads
rights rights 10 bitches and reservoirs used
in connection with such water RICH $, rs may have
Sn Of sea Of be e5 by the .nth
nothing in this act shall be cor strued 10 repeal
imrair, or in any way affect the provisions Of the
privileges to aid in the construction OF draining and
exporing tunnel to the Comsteck lode in the STATE
! Of Neyads approved July twenty fifth, eighteen
| Approved, July 3, NO.