The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-09-01

acre: Er0ptded ffTtheT, Ihat legal Sub-
divisions q forty acres may be subdivided
into ten acre tracts; and that two or moro
persons, or associations Of persons, having
contiguous claims Of any size, although
such claims may be less than ten acres
each, may make joint entry thereof AaS
propided farther, That no location Of a
placer claim, hereafter made, shall exceed
one hundred and sixty acres foe any one
person or association Of persons, which
location shall couform 10 the United States
surveys; and nothing 10 this section con
taiued shall defeat or impair any bona iide
presumption or homestead claim upon ag.
ricultural lands, or authorize the sale of
the improvements ofauy bona fide settler
to any purchaser
SEc. IS. And DO Il farthereaacted, That
where said person or association. they and
their erantors, shall have held and worked
their said claims for period equal to the
time prescribed by the statute of limita-
tions for mining claims Of theState or Ter
ritory where the same may bG situated,
evidence ofsuch possession and working Of
the claims for such period shall be sutic-
lent to establish q right to patent thereto
under this act, in tho absence Of any ad-
verse claim: PROVIDED. ho'oeveT That
nothing in this act shall be deemed tuim.
pair any lien which may have attached IN
any way whatever to any mining claim or
property thereto attached prior 70 the is,
suancc Of q patent.
SEc, IA. Andbc Il further enacted, That
all ex partc afidayits required to be made
under this act, or the act Of which it is
amendatory, may be verified before any
officer authorized to administer oaths with.
in the land district where tho claims may
be situated.
SIC. is. 4ad be Il further enacted, That
registers and receivers shall receive tho
same fees for services under this act as arc
provided by law for like services under
other acts Of Congress; and that effect shall
be given to tho foregoing act according to
such regulations as may bc prescribed by
the Commissioner Of tho General Land
Office.
SEQ. 10. Anabeit further enacted, That
so much Of the not Of March third. eighteen
hundred and Gfty.three, entitled IAN act
to provide for the survey Of tho public
lands in California, the granting Of pre-.
emption rights, and 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mineral, is hereby repealed.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: Provided, That al aubdi-
yidiug ofsurveyed lands nib lots lcss' than
ono hundred aud sixty acreS may bc dehe
By county and local surveyors as sRe ex-i
pense Of The claimants And providetl fstr-
liar, That, nothing herein contained shall
require the survey of waste or useless
lapds.
isEc. IL. Aadbe Il fartlereaactea, That
none Of the rights conferred by sections
five, eight, aud nine of the act 70 which
this act is amendatory shall DO abrogated
by this act, and the same are hereby OK
tended to all public lands affected by this
act; and all patents granted, or pre-emp-
ton or honlesteads allowed, shall be sub
iect to any vested and accrued water
rights, or rights to bitches and reservoirs
used in connection with such water rights,
as may have been acquired under or recOg-
nized by tho ninth section Of the act Of
which this act is amendatory. But noth-
ing 10 this act shall be construed to re.
peal, impair, in any way affect the pro-
visions Of the "Act granting to A. sutro'
tho right Of way sud other privileges to
aid in the construction Of draining and
exploring tunnel to the Comstock lode, in
the State of Nevada" approved July
twenty-ffth, eighteen hundred and sixty
Approved, July 8, 1870.