The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-09-01
FEES ON TAKING UP MINING CLAIMS.

We have received the following Circular
from the General Land Office at Washington
City, and as it is of some interest to owners Of
mining claims we publish it entire:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
General Land Office, July IS, 1870.
GENTLEMEN:-Infomatio has been called
for as to the fees to which Registers and Re
cevers are entitled for services in acting upon
mining claims. The following is therefore
communicated for the government of all per-
sons concerned: .a s1H
In the 18th section of the Act of Congress,
approved July 9, 1870, "To Amend an Act
Granting the Right of Way to Ditch and Ca
nal Owners over the Public Lands and for 9TH
er purposes" it is declared "That Registers
and Receivers shall receive 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 pre-
empti0n law, as the occupant, under the local
customs of miners, is the only person privileged
to purchase aud an application for patent
under the mining statute asslmiates to de-
clarat0ry statement in the case of entries un-
der general pre-emptiOn law. 1t is proper,
therefore, to apply the provisions. as to fees IN
general pre-emptiOn cases, to the special pre-
emptions under the Mining Act. Hence. Reg
listers and Receivers in the States of Cali:Or-
MIA, Oregon, and Nevada, and in the Terrific
ries of Washington, Colorado, New Mexico,
Arizona. Idaho and Montana are entitled to
charge applicants for mining patents, at the
date of filing the diagram or making the appll'
cation, the sum of three dollars, being one dol
lar and fifty cents each to the Register and Re
cever For taking testimony, either in the
form of affidavts or in writing out answers OF
| oil ch1rOa
twenty two and one-haf cents per hundred
words, these being the fees specified in the Act
of Congress approved March 81, 1864, "Amen-
dat0ry of the Homestead Law, and tor other
purposes (U S. Statutes, v. Ii, p. 3o), which
we assiniilate to services as to mining claims.
Then the claimant has to pay the expense OF
surveying the claim and making plat thereof,
the cost of the publication of the notice In the
newspaper, and FIVE dollars per acre tor the
surface ground embraced by the survey.
Such are the items of expense incident to
obtaining patent for mining claim, so far as
the United States or it's officers are concerned.
From the foregoing it will be seen that the fees
payable to the Register and Receiver by the
mining applicant are:
i 1st ST. SO to each for filing diagram and ap'
plication. I'd. 221 cents per hundred words
for reducing testimony to writing, under the
principles laid down in the 4th and 9th sec
tons of the Homestead Act of March II, 1864
should the applicant desire it taken down by
those officers instead of by themselves or other
persons in the presence of the land officers
The other payments required of applicants fol
mining patents are: Sd. To the Receiver, the
sum of SIS and 81 so per acre, respectively. fo
, lode and placer claims. as shown by the fina
! survey, and-4th. A deposit, in favor OF th'
u. S. Treasurer according to existing instruc
, tions, of the amount estimated by the Surveyo
General to cover the actual expenses OF sur
vey. plat, and cost of publication of notice.
These are the only charges. fees, or emolu
/ ments which, by law or regulations, the Regis
i ter and Receiver have any right to exact iron
the mining applicant, and none other must o.
;, : charged or received under any circumstances
. JOS S. WILSON, Commissioner.