Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-12-25
HOW TO APPLY FOR A PATENT.
United States Law.

A patent for any land claimed and To- cated for valuable deposits may be Ob- taiued in the following manner: Any person, associati n or corporation au- thorized to locate a claim under this chapter, having claimed and located a piece of land for such purposes, who has or have complied with the terms Of this chapter, may file in the proper land office an application for a pateIf, under oath, showing such compliance, together with a plat and field notes of the claim or claims in common. made by or under the direction of the United States Sur veyor General, showing accurately the boundaries of the claim CT claims, which shall be distinctly marked by mOnu- meuts on the ground, and shall post copy Of s-ch plat, together with a mo- tice of such application for a patent, m a conspicuous place cn the land em- braced in such plat previous to the filing of the application for patent, and shall file an afli lavit of at least two persons that such notice has been duly posted, and shall file a copy of the notice ID such land office, and shall thereupon be entitled tO a patent for the land in the manner following: The Register of the Land Office, upon tue filing of such ap- plcation. plat, field notes, notices and aiidavIts, shall publish a notice that such application has been made, for the period of sixty days, in a newspaper to be by him designated as published near est to such claim: and he shall also post such notice in his office for the same period. The claimant at tLe time q D+ time thereafter, within the sixty days of publication. shall file with the Reg ister a certificate of the United States Surveyor-Generalt that five hundred dol lars worth of labor has been expended or improvements made upon the claim by himself or grantors; that the plat is correct, with such further description by such reference tO natural objects or per maneut monuments as shall identify the claim, and furnish an accurate descrip- tIon, to be incorporated Tn the patent. At the expiration of the sixty days O. publication the claimant shall file his affidavit, showing that the plat and mo- tice have been posted in a conspicuous place on the claim during such period of publication. IT no adverse claim shall have been filed with the Register and the Receiver of the proper Land Office at the expiration of the sixty days of publication, 1t shall be assumed that the applicant is entitled to a patent, upon the payment to the proper officer of 8 per acre, and that no adverse claim ex- ists; and thereafter no objection from third parties to the issuance of patent shall le heard, except 1t be shown that the applicant has failed to comply with the terms of this chapter. Where the claimant for patent Is not a resident of or within the land district wherein the vein, lode, ledge or deposit sought to be patented is located, the application for patent and the aflidavits required to be made in this section may be made by his, her or its authorized agent, where said agent is conversant with the facts sought to be established; and this pro- vision shall apply to all applications for patents to mineral lands pending on the twenty-second day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty.