Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-10-12

meHg snail De transmitted, WIN Lne OCner
papers i'll the case, to the Commissioners of
the General Land Office. The fees of the
register and the receiver shall be five dol
lars each for filing and acting upon each
application for patent or adverse claim
filed, and they shall be allowed the
amount fixed by law for reducing testl-
mony to writing, when done in the land
Office, such fees and allowances to be paid
by the respective parties; and no other fees
shall be charged by them in such cases.
Nothing in this act shall be construed to
enlarge or affect the rights of either party
In regard to any property in controversy
at the time of the passage of this act, or of
the act entitled An act granting the
right of way to ditch and canal owners
| over the public lands, and for other pur-
poses," approved July twenty-sixth, elgh-
| teen hundred and siXty-six, nor shall this
act affect any right acquired under said
| act; and nothing in this act shall be con-
| strued to repeal, impair, or in any way
affect the provisions of the act entitled
| can act granting to A. Sutro the right of
| way and other privileges to aid in the con-
struction of q draining and exploring tun-
mel to the COmstock lode, in the State of
| Nevada" approved July twenty-fifth,
eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
| Sec. Is. That all 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, and all testimony and
proofs may be taken before any such off
Ger, and, when duly certified by the officer
taking the same, shall have the same force
and effect as if taken before the register
and receiver of the land Office. In cases
of contest as to the mineral or agrlcultu-
raj character of land, the testimony and
- In n hodn
personal notice of at least ten days to the
opposing party; or if said party can not
be found, then by publication of at least
once week for thirty days in newspa-
per, to be designated by the register of the
land office as published nearest to the 10
cation of such land and the register shall
require proof that such notice has been
given. ...-....---
intersect or cross each other, priority of IT,
tie shall govern, and such. prior location
shall be entitled to all ore or mineral con-
tanned within the space of intersection
Provided, hoUeuer, That the subsequent
location shall have the right of way
through said space of intersection for the
purposes of the convenient working OF the
said mine: 4nd provided also, That where
two or more veins unite, the oldest or prior
location shall take the vein below the point
|
section. .trr
SEC. Is. That where non-mineral land
not contiguous to the vein or lode is used
or occupied by the proprietor Of such vein
or lode for mining or milling purposes,
such non-adjacent surface ground may be
embraced and included in an application
for patent for such vein or lode, and the
same may be patented Herewith, subject
to the same preliminary requirements as
| ,1ti n
der this act to veins or lodes; Provided,
That no location hereafter made of such
non-adiacent land shall exceed five acres,
and payment for the same must be made
at the same rate as fixed by this act for the
superficies of the lode. The owner of a
quartz mill or reduction works, not own
ing a mine in connection Herewith, may
also receive patent for his mill site, as
provided in this section. .....
| SEC, 16. That all acts and parts of acts
inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed (:
Provided, That nothing contained i'll this
act shall be construed to impair, in any
way, rights or interests in mining property
acquired under existing laws. ~.
Approved, May 10, 1872. ...
GENERAL NATURE-No. Ga
AN ACT to establish certain post-roads
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representative of the United States OF
America in Congress assembled, That the
following be, and are hereby, established
as post-roads: .-
ALABAMA.
From Crossville, via Big Wills Creek
and Rodentown, to Alfalfa.
From Crossville, via Grove Oak, New
vile, and Parks Store, to Scottsboro'.
From Tuscumbia. Saints Store, to New
burg. .lr .r.E -l
From Rocky Head to Haw Ridge.
Kemp's Creek to BowdOn.
| " Ashland, via Hillabee, Millers-
vile, and Bradford, to Rockford.
From Louina, via Davidson and Dudley
vile, to Dudeville. -. - ss
From Louiha, via Woods Ferry, Weso-
bulga, and Mullins, to Blakes' Ferry.
From High Shoals, via Roanoke, Wief's,
Higgins, and Buffalo Wallow, to Cham
bers'
From Rock Mills, via Bacon Level,
From Pinckneyville to Childersburg.
Tuskegee, via Honey Cut, to Union
Springs. - --- = .rl
From Hines Precinct to Tuskegee.
! " Wedowee, via Jordans and Arba-
coochee, to Bells Mills. '..
From Coles Station to Tallasee.
Wetumpka to Robinson Springs.
| society Hill TO durtVlIle.
Troy, via Pea River, Buck Horn,
and Louisville, to Clayton.
From Blake's Ferry, via Fox Creek, to
East Mill.
From Tuskegee, via Cross Keys, Gull
hatchee, and Mount Meigs, to Montgom-
cry.
From Dadeville, via Pinekneyville' ana
| Sylacogga, to Childersburg.
From Opelika, via Oak Bower, to Dud-
| leyville.
| From Letohatchee, via Hickory Grove,
Mount Carmel, Argus, and Helicon, to
| Olustee.
From Chulafinee to Caimbardville.
'' Jasper to Somerville.
g Bullock to Rutledge.
| " Rock Mills to Houston, Georgia.
F." Smiths Station, via Warcoochee,
Beulah, Ossisippi, Trammell's Factory, to
West Point, Georgia.
From Hillians to Collinsville.