The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-09-07

subject to all the laws and regulations applica-
bic to the same.
Approved July 26, 1866.
at the second session of the 41st Congress,
the following act amendatory of the foregoing
was passed, adding thereto six sections num-
bered, respectively ~, l3. Ia, Is, 16, II, and
which was approved July 8, 1870:
SEC. l2. Ind be il further enacted, That
claims, usually called "placers," including all
forms of deposit, excepting veins of quartz, or
other rock in place, shall be subject to entry
and patent under this act. under like circun-
stances aud conditions and upon similar pro.
ceedngs. as are provided for vein or lode
claims: Prorided, That where the lands have
been previously surveyed by the United States.
the entry in its exterior limits shall conform
10 the legal subdivisions of the public lands.
no further survey or plat in such case being
required, aud the lands may be paid for at the
rate oi two dollars and fifty cents per acre ::
Prorided further. That legal subdivisions of
forty acres may be subdivided into ten.acre
tracts; and that two or more persons, or assO-
Citations of persons, having contiguous claims
of any size, although such claims may be less
than ten acres each, may make joint entry
thereof: Ind prorided further, That no loca-
tion OF n placer claim, hereafter made shall
exceed one hundred aud sixty acres for any
one person or association of persons, which To-
cation shall conform to the United States sur
veys and nothing in this section contained
shall defeat or impair any bona tide pre.emp-
ton or homestead claim upon agricultural
lands, or authorize the sale of the improve.
ments of any bona fide settler to any purchaser.
SEC. 13. 4nd be it further enacted, That
where said person or association, they and
their grantors. shall have held aud worked
their SAID claims for period equal to the time
prescribed by the statute of limitations for
mining claims of the State or Territory where
the same may be situated, evidence of such
possession and working of the claims for such
period shall be sufficient to establish right
to patent thereto under this act, in the alb
sence of any adverse claim: PrOrided, h0percr,
That nothing in this act shall be deemed to i'm
pair any lien which may have attached in any
way whatever to any mining claim or property
thereto attached prior to the issuance of u
patent.
SEC. Ia, Ind be 1t further enacted, That all
ex parte affidavits 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 within the land district
where the claims may be situated
Sec. 15. And be IL further enacted, 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 ofl
Congress; and that effect shall be given to the
foregoing act according to such regulations as
may be prescribed by the Commissioner of the
General Land Office. |
Sec. l6. Ind be it further enacted, That SO
much of the act of March 3, 1853, entitled "An |
act to provide for the survey of the public lands
in California, the granting of presumption
rights, and for other purposes" as provides
that none other than township lines shall .be
surveyed where the lands are mineral, is here
by repealed. Ana the public surveys are here.
by extended over all such lands: Prorided,
That all subdividing of surveyed lands into lots
ess than one hundred and sixty acres may be |
lone by county and local surveyors at the ex-
oense of the claimants: And prorided further,
That nothing herein contained shall require
The survey of waste or useless lands
SEC. IL. Aad be 1t further enacted, That
none Of the rights conferred by sections 5, 8,
md of the act to which this act is amendato
y shal be abrogated by this act. and the same
ire hereby extended to all public lands affected
~ this act; and all patents granted, or pre-
,mption or homesteads allowed shall be SUBJ
ect to any vested and accrued water rights, or
lights to bitches and reservoirs used in con-
lection with such water rights as may have
been acquired under, or recognized by, the 9th
ection Of the act Of which this act is amenda-l