Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-07-07
UNITED STATES MINING. LAWS.
IMPORTATION vOR LocsroRs
AND OWNERS OF HINES.
Applieasisss fer Psssots-Hew -
Deaf with Csoss Lodes-Tasnsi
RiShts-Adverss Cisims-
The Law - Regard
% Alless-kss.
APPLICATION or PATENT.

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the Register and Receiver. they become .
part Of the record. and can neither be
Withdrawn nor returned. but must be
transmitted 10 the General Land once.
An application will be rejected when tho
description Of the premises 10 erronsous
or insufficient.
Application for patent will bs rejected
because:
Fint-Ths notice was published without
the knowledge Of the Register.
Second-The notice was not published
In . newspaper designated ~ published
nearest the CLAIM.
Third-Rsoord title was found detective,
and:
Pourth-A previous application had been
made for the same premises, which wAs
Withdrawn pending . suit In court oom.
menced by the adverse claimant.
An application for patent will bo rejected
when the survey does not accurately dc.
fine the boundaries Of the claim.
Where the claim was not located In 20.
cordance with law.
Where several parties own separate and
distinct portions OF claim, application
for patent may be made BY either for that
portion OF the claim owned by him; but
where several parties own undivided In
terests In mining claim, all should Join
In an application for patent.
A person or association may purchase -
many placer locations a the local Law I'd.
mits, and embrace them all In one appli-
cation for Q patent.
Two or more lodes cannot be embraced
In one application for . patent except for
placer claims embracing two or more lodes
within their boundaries.
Papers sworn to before any person pur.
porting to act - deputy for the Register
and Receiver, cannot be recorded - EVIL
dence.
In all patents for mining claims situated
within the interior boundaries Of . town
slts. . clause Is inserted excepting and
excluding all town property, rights upon
the surface. and all houses, buildings,
structures, lots. blocks. streets, alleys, or
other municipal improvements not belong.
ing to the grantee herein, and oil rights
necessary or proper to the occupation, pos.
session and enjoyment Of the same"
Publication Of notice must be made In
only one Newspaper for the period OF sixty
days. -
Notice must be published ten consecu.
tive weeks In weekly newspapers. and 10
daily newspapers sixty days must elapse
between the frst and the last insertions.
Where the Register designates the daily
issue Of . Newspaper for publication Of
notices Of mining application for patent,
10 10 not 0 compliance with law to change
70 the weekly edition OF the same paper
without authority Of the Register.
The existence OF salt spring on . tract
Of land withdraws II from the operation Of
the homestead and prescription laws. A
hearing for the purpose Of proving the
agricultural character Of such land 10 not
allowed. Land containing valuable do
poslts Of slate may be entered under the
mining Acts.
ApvYAsr CLAIMS.
Adverse claimants must ale . separate
and distinct claim against each application
which II 10 alleged conflicts With the prem.
ises owned BY such adverse claimant.
The papers 10 an adverse claim once died
cannot be Withdrawn, but become part OF
the record.
When an adverse claim has been Hlsd II
cannot be amended 20 - to embrace .
larger portion Of the premises than that
described In the original adverse claim.
An adyerne claim must be made out In
proner form and f,led In The proper local
oesce during the period of Qualification
Of the application for the patent to bs
effective.
It 10 the duty OF the adverse claimant TO
commence suit In proper form within the
required time, and u he trusts the uncer
tain medium Of the United States mall, he
must abide the consequences, should the
delay ensue through misfortune or scoi.
dent. Should the failure TO commsuce
suit be the result OF the corrupt or dishon.
est action OF his attorney, the Interior De-
psrtment cannot redress the wrong.
An adverse claimant should set forth IN
detail the facts upon which be bases his
adverse claim. A statement In general
terms, embodying conclusions OF law,
without stating the facts specially, will not
DO considered 10 evidence.
An adverse claimant should show com.
piiance Win the local laws in recording DIS
claim and In regard 70 expenditures. and
shall nle copy OF the original notice Of
bis location, and show tho nature or extent