The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-06-15
PATENTS 10 PLACER MINING CLAIMS ON
SURVEYED LANDS.

SURVEYED LANDS
Under date Of Ma, ssh, 1871. in answer 10
letter from Mr.. A. A. Sargent Commissioner
Drumncnd has addressed letter to the Reg
ister and Receiver II Sacramento. which seems
70 settle qaestica Of construction between
the United States Surveyor Geaeral and the
Sacramento Land 0flee, ~ to whether the
Surveyor General is required to act upon the
survey Of legal subdivision inte IO-acre tracts,
where such survey is made hy county or ls-
cal surveyor, and gives ether important infer
nation. as win be seen from the ieilowing:
| Il is thought that the terms Of the Act of 9th
July. $50. are too plain To admit of aay mis-
apprehension or doubt upon this point; bat t.
the end that al parties may be advised of the
duties devolying upon them in acting upon this
class Of claims. the following is communicated:
Al application for patent for placer mln-
ing claim is required BY the Act 10 come within
h the same conditions applicable 10 claimants OF
veins, ledges or lodes, and the proceedings
as is fully SCI forth In the Circular instructions
from this office bearing date Aug. :, ls9o.
After the expiration of the ninety days no
be made to the satisfaction of the Register, the
placer mining claimant, where the subdivision
of forty-acre tract is necessary, may engage,
under private contract, either United States
deputy. or county or LEGAL surveyor, to per-
form the work at the expense Of such placer
claimant. such forty acre tract 10 be invariably
laid OF into four lots of equal area; aud to suit
the circumstances of the case these lots may be
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in the form of parallelograms. 5xso chains;
but the lines of these surveys must not run d.
asonslly to those of the regular surveys, but
parallel and at right angles Herewith. 50 as 10
avoid confusion in the disposal of the remail-
der of the land.
Such survey, when executed, must be prop
eriy sworn 10 by the surveyor. either before
the Register or Receiver, Notary Public, or
an officer Of Court of Record, the deponent's
character or credibility 10 be certified By the
officer administering the oath.
Upon the filing of the plat and 6eld notes Of
such survey, duly sworn 20, you viii transmit
:he same 10 the Surveyor General for yeriiea-
ton and approval, who, il he hnds the, work TO
have been correctly executed, viii give such
ten acre lot, where the same constitutes the
entire claim, Its appropriate numerical desag-
nation in the order Of surveyed claims in the
township, and in eases where several of these
teu-acre lots constitute and are comprised in
one claim they viii rot receive separate num-
bers for each lot. but the whole will receive the
number in the order of the mineral claims in
the township.
The Surveyor General viii then mark such
claim upon the original township plat ON file in
his office, and send an authenticated copy of
the plat aud field notes OF the surrey TO the
Register of the proper local land office, and to
this office, as in the case of vein or lode sur
yeys aatt
Thereafter, if no adverse claim has been
presented. an entry will be allowed of such
claims at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents
for each acre, or fractional part of ai acre,
embraced in the survey; the local land officers
preserving an unbroken series of numbers for
all mineral claims, both lode and placer, and
then report the case to this office ia the usual
manner, accompanied with letter of trans.
mission sss eH u 3aa
1t is to be distinctly understood that the fore
going remarks as To survey are intended TO ap-
ply only to those placer claims which cannot be-
entered in forty-acre legal subdivisions without
interference with the rights of other bona fde
mineral or agricultural claimants m the same
tract. and you will in all cases require tesutno-
ny rs 10 whether or not such claimants 10 such
forty.acre tract exist; and where such are
found, require the applicant, at his own cost,
to cause the survey into ten-acre lots in man.
ner aforesaid, so as to segregate his claim from
the remainder; and where there are no such
in the same, require the entry to
conform in its exterior limits to such forty.acre
legal subdivision. si - s6 gsa ey7
In case there are several placer mining
claimants within the same subdivision they
have the option of making joint entry of the
land, or of having such smaller divisions made
and receiving separate patents s5ulsaA
You are requested to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of this communication as No. -.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
8 NJ e w. w. CURTIS,
.a f.t.sta Acting Commissioned.