Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-10-12
of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan,
,nd Uorritory of DaEota

persons holding pre-emptions upon any of
the public lands of the United States with
in the States of Minnesota, Wisconsin,
and Michigan, and Territory of Dakota,
whose final payment has not been made,
shall be allowed the additional time OF one
year in which to make final proof ana
payment from the time at which such pre-
emptions are required to be paid for by the
present laws.
Approved May 9, 1872.
.7aF GENERAL NATURE-No. Co.
An ACT for the relief of purchasers OF
lands sold for direct taxes IN the lnSur-
rectionary States. .r.E ..-
BE if enacted by the Senate and House
of Renresentatiyes of the United States of
America i'm Congress assembled, That no
owner his heirs or assigns, OF any land
sold for taxes under the provisions of the
act entitled Gan act for the collection of
direct taxes in the insurrectionary districts
within the United States, and for other
purposes" approved June seventh, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-twO, and of the
acts amendatory thereof, shall be permit
ted to recover the same in any action or
proceeding against the purchaser at such
sale, his heirs or assigns, without showing,
in addition to other necessary facts, that
all taxes, costs and penalties due upon the
said land, at the time of the sale, have
been paid by him or, them, or bringing
into court and depositing with the clerk,
for the use of the United States, the
amount, with interest, of the taxes and
penalties due to the United States on ac-
count of the land when sold, together
with all the costs and expenses of the sale,
which sum, in case of the recovery of the
land by such owner, his heirs or assigns,
shall be paid by the clerk into the treasury
of the United States. ~. -- ~ Xxx. ..
SEC. 2. That in all cases where the own
er of any land sold for taxes as aforesaid,
his heirs or assigns, shall recover the same
from the purchaser, his heirs or assigns,
without collision on his or their part, by
the judgment of any United States court,
by reason of failure, without his or their
fault or neglect, of the title of the pur-
chaser derived from said sale, the Secreta-
~ of the Treasury, on the payment into
the treasury, by the clerk, of the money
deposited with him as aforesaid, and on
being satisfied that any purchaser, his
heirs or assigns, without his or their col
fusion, has been evicted from or turned
out of possession of any such land by the
Judgment of the United States court, in
the manner before mentioned, is hereby
authorized, out of any money in the treas
ury not otherwise appropriated, to repay
to the person or persons entitled thereto
sum of money equal to that originally
paid by the purchaser of the land so re-
covered, if the same has been paid into
the treasury. -..-
Approved, May 9, 1872. ~.
g GENERAL NATURE-No. .61.1 .i-
AN ACT to perpetuate testimony IN the
courts of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That
hereafter all dispositions taken de bene
esse, to be used in any civil cause depend
ing in any court in any district of the
United States, for the causes and before
the officers mentioned in section thirty of
the " Act to establish the judicial courts
of the United States,' approved Septem-
Der twenty-fourth, seventeen hundred and
eighty-nine, shall be taken upon reasona-
bic notice, to be given in writing by the
party or his attorney proposing to take
such deposition, to the opposite party or
his attorney of record, which notice shall
state the name of the witness and tibet time
and place of the taking of his deposition
and in all cases in rem, the person having
the agency or possession of the property
at the time of seizure shall be deemed the
adverse party, until claim shall have
been put in and whenever, by reason of
the absence from the district and want of
an attorney of record or other reason, the
giving of the notice herein required shall
be impracticable it shall be lawful to take
such dispositions as there shall be urgent
necessity for taking, upon such notice as
any Judge authorized to hold courts in
such circuit or district shall think reason
able and direct But this act shall not be
construed to affect the power of any such
court to cause testimony to be taken under
commission, according to the course of the
common law, to be used therein.
Approved, May 8, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-No. g.
AN ACT to proHote the development of
the mining resources of the United
States. ..f
Belt enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That all
valuable mineral deposits in lands belong
ing to the United States, both surveyed
and unsurveyed are hereby declared to be
free and open to exploration and purchase,
and the lands in which they are found to
occupation and purchase, by citizens of
the United States and those who have de-
clared their intention to become SUCH
under regulations prescribed by law, and
according to the local customs or rules of
miners in the several mining districts, so
far as the same are applicable and not in
consistent with the laws of the United
States.
SEC. 9 That mining claims upon veins
or lodes of quartz or other rock in place
bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin,
copper, or other valuable deposits hereto
fore located, shah be governed as to length
along the vein or lode by the customs,
regulations, and laws in force at the date
of their location. A mining claim located
after the passage of this act, whether To-
Gated by one or more persons, may equal,
but shall not exceed, one thousand five
hundred feet in length along the vein or
lode; but no location of mining claim
shall be made until the discovery of the
vein or lode within the limits of the claim
located. No claim shall extend more than
three hundred feet on each side of the
middle of the vein at the surface, nor shall
any claim be limited by any mining regu-
lation to less than twenty-five feet on each
side of the middle of the vein at the sur
face, except where adverse rights existing
at the passage of this act shall render such
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