The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-08-04
IDAHO WOR LID.
MINING LAWS.

we are lnueDteu 10 huu. u IN 0i1"'SA - y
copy of the following bill, which has become
law, and as it applies to our Territory we pub
lish it entire:
AN ser 70 ar,end can act granting the right of way
to ditch and canal owners over the public lands
and for other purposes.
re Il enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives Of the United States Of Amef.ca
in ConqreSs assembled, That the act granting
the right of way to ditch and canal owners
over the public lands, and for other purposes
approved July %, 1866, be, and the same Is
hereby, amended by adding thereto the follow
ing additional sections, numbered IL, To- H.
Is, Is, and IL, respectively, which shall mere
after constitute and form u part OF the aiore-
said act. r,
SEC. -. Ind be it further enacted, That
claims usually called "placers," including ali
forms of deposit, excepting veins OF quartz, or
other rock in place, shall be subject TO entry
and patent under this act, under ike circuni-
stances and conditions, and upon similar pro
ceedings, as are provided Tor VEN or iodc
claims: Prorided, That where the lands have
been previously surveyed by the United States,
the entry in its exterior limits shall conform to
the legal subdivisions of the public lands no
further survey or plat i'll such case being re-
ouired, and the lands may be paid for at tho
rate of two dollars and fifty cents per acre:
Prorided further, That legal subdivisions OF
forty acres may DO subdivided into ten-acre
tracts; and that two or more persons, or assoc
Citations of persons, having contiguous claims
of any size. although such claims may be less
than ten acres each, may make joint entry
thereof: lad prorided further, That no loca,
ton of a placer claim, hereafter made, shall
exceed one hundred and sixty acres Tor any
one person or association OF persons, which
location shall conform Ia the United States
surveys; aud nothing in this section contained
shall defeat or impair any bona hde prr-emp.
ton or homestead claim upon agricultural
lands or authorize the sale of the improve
ments of any boGa tiie settler TO any purchaser.
SEC. IL. lad BE- IL further enacted. That
where said person or association, they and
their grantors, shall have held and worked
their said claims for period equal 10 the tune
prescribed by the statute at limitation for min
ing claims of the State or Territory where the
same may be situated. evidence OF such pos
session aud working OF the claims for such pc
Rod shall be sufficient Ia establish right Ia
patent thereto under this act, In the absence
OF any adverse claim: Proridsd, A0srsrsr, That
nothing in this act shall be- deemed - impair
any lien which may have attached In any way
thereto attached prior 10 tho Issuance OF
patent.
SEC. Ii. had be IL fartaer eaactsd. That MI
tx parte afiidayits required To be made un-
der this act, or the act ot which il Is Asncnda
tory, may be varihcd before any officer author,
lied To administer oaths within the land dist
riot where the claims may be situated.
SEC. 10. lad be il further enacted. That
registers and receivers shall receive the sam"
fees for services under this act "a arr provided
BY law for Ike services under other acts at
Congress; and that effect shall be- given 20 Tue
foregoing act according To such regulations as
may be prescribed by the Commissioner oi the
General Land Office.
- SEC To- Had be Il frtAe. eaaetoi. That 50
much of tho net OF March ;, 1853. entitled
IAN act to provide for the survey OF the pub
lie lands in California, the granting Of pro-
cmption rights. aud for other purposes" as
provides that none other than township lines
shall be Surveyed where the lands are mineral.
is hereby repealed. And the public surveys are
hereby extended over all such lands: Prorided.
That all subdividug OF surveyed lands into
lots less than one hundred and sixty acres may
be done by county and local surveyors at the
expense OF the claimants: Ind prgridcyl fur
tier, That nothing herein contained shall re-
quire the survey of waste or useless lands.
:. SEC. L. Ind BE- it further enacted. That
none of the rights conferred by sections five.
eight, and nine of the act to which this act il
amendatory 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 presumption or hornesteads allowed,
shall be subject to any vested aud accrued wa
ter rights, or rights to bitches aud reservoirs
used in connection with such water rights. az
may have been acquired under or recognized
by the ninth section OF the act of which this
act is amendatoy. But nothing in this act
shall be construed to repeal. impair. or in any
way affect the provisions of the "Act granting
to a. Sutro the right of way and other privile-
ges to aid in the construction of n draining
and exploring tunnel to the Comstock lode. in
the State of Nevada" approved July 18th. 1866.
Approved, July 0, 1870.