Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-20

| protect his own title under the town site
| patent already issued.
| Second-That reservation from pa
tent to town site of any mine of gold
silver, cinnabar or copper, or to any valid
mining claim or possession held under the
existing laws of congress, the following
| language of the townsite laws carves out
of said patent such mines and sach mining
| rights as existed at its date, and it is the
duty of this department to aid and allow
the claims to mining ground to be pre-
| sented and the patent to be obtained linn
tied to the precise extent of the reservation
| so made.
Thlrd-That to procure such q patent,
an applicant Will be required to show
afirmatively the true location of the vein
and extent of his own claim for surface
| ground, exhibiting by his plat its relation
| to all other claims and to streets, blocks
and municipal or other improvements; !;
| also to prove the necessity of such surface
ground to the use and operating of his
IRine. If the location ante dates the town
site appropriation, he must connect him
self with the original claim as actually
| possessed and claimed, not in excess of
the surface ground allowed by law or local
custom at the date of the town site ap-
preparation.
FourthAThat when such showing has
been made sufficient to establish clear
prima facis case, the applicant may be
allowed to proceed by publication as IN
| other cases, subject to the fling of adverse
claims and proceedings in the courts, and
if no adverse claims are filed, he may have
his patent upon completing his proofs
and entry, such patent to contain the
usual reservations respecting town rights.
PUBLIC LANDS OFFERED FOR SETTLEMENT.
The commissioner general of the land
office to-day decided a contested case in
volving lands within the limits of the orig
inally located line of railroad in Michigan
from Marquette to Wisconsin state line.
The commissioner holds that the lands pre-
viOusly certified for this line and which
were relinquished under joint resolution
of congress, were by the operation of this
statute and by such REIMBURSEMENT re-
stored to the public domain, aad that the
same are subject to pre-emption and
homestead entry as other lands of the
United States. In the. case decided
to-day, the lands are also within
the limits originally fixed for indemnity
selections by the Ontonagon line. The
commissioner says that no indemnity or
withdrawal exists covering the land in
controversy, and he therefore awards the
same to the settler, 'first in time.''
THE NEW POSTAL NOTES.
Postmaster General Gresham to day ap-
proved the Specifications for the new
postal notes, and the advertisements will
be issued at once, inviting proposals for
printing the notes.
The National Academy of Sciences held
only business session to-day, which was
occupied in the consideration of the names
of the candidates for membership. Prof.
Simon Newcomb was elected vicepresi-
dent, and Prof. Asaph Hall, home secre-
tary. The following council were elected:
Prof. s. F. Baird and w. Gibb, Cambridge,
Mass, National academy; Gen. NJ. G. Meigs
and +. Rogers, Philadelphia; Prof. G. A.
Young, Of Princeton, and Prof Hilgar3.
EXCHANGED TREATIES.
Secretary Frelinghuysen to-day ex-
changed with the Spanish minister the rat
ification of trade mark and extradition
treaties between the United States and
Spain.
The counting committee to verify the
treasury cash and accounts in transfer from
Gilfllan to Wyman to-day finished the ex-
animation of the noney and securities.
EXPEDITION IN THE MEXICAN MAIL SERVICE.
1t is said at the postofice department,
that the report referred to in a recent
dispatch from the city of Mexico
in regard to the postal arrangements be-
tween that country and the United States,
urged the necessity of daily instead of a
tri-weekly mailI service in Mexico. AZ
present the United States mails for Mexico
reach the frontier daily, and are delayed
there on account of the slow mail service
of that government. The change proposed,
in which the Mexican authorities appear to
have acqsiesced, will obviate the delay, and
the mail will be forwarded as far as pos
sible on the day they reach the Mexican
border.
CYCLONE STATIONS TO BE CLOSED.
Gen. Hazen to-day telegraphed to
weather observers in the West Indies that
after the Both inst. no more reports on
cyclones can be made, owing to the failure
of congress to make appropriation for the
PuI pOoCs 1hC SbdSlOuo tuSE0 Will D6 dDan-
doned.
TEooPs FOB AN INDIAN CAMPAIGN.
Seven hundred recruits are on their way
to strengthen the regiments IN the depart
ment of Columbia, Arizona an1 New Mex
leo, with view to their possible necessi-
ty for an Indian campaign.
THR RAILROADS BALANCE DUE.
The money withheld from the railroads
by the postofice department, in pursuance
of the act of 1876, and to which the post
master general now decides the roads are
entitled, amounts in the aggregate to
about 100000.
ORDER REVOKED.
The order issued several days ago to
place on the list of frauds, the Portable
Electric Light company, of % Water
street, Boston, was to-day revoked by
Postmaster General Grsham on the ground
that the article advertised for sale Is pat
ented and cannot, therefore, be cIassed as
fraudulent device.
The statue of Professor Henry, the first
secretary and director of the Smithsonian
institute, was unveiled on those grounds at
Washington yesterday before large gath
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