The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1889-08-01

ooniphoo Win the terms OF TINS chapter |
may file in the proper land office an
application for a patent, under oath, |
showing such compliance, together
with plat and field notes of the claim
or claims in common, made. by or
under the direction Of the United
States Surveyor General. showing ac.
curately the boundaries of the claim
or claims, which shall be distinctly
marked by monuments on the ground
and shall post copy of such plat,
together with notice Of such apph-
cation for a patent in a conspicuous
place on the land embraced in such
plat previous to the filing of the ap.
plication for patent, and shall file
an affidavit that such plat and notice
have been duly posted, and shall also
file copy of the notice in 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 the filing of such applica-
tion, plat, field notes, notices and
affidavits, shall publish a notice that
such application has been made, for
the period of sixty days, in news
paper to be by him designated as pub
lished nearest to such claim; and he
shall also post such notice in his Office
for the same period. The claimant at
the time of filing his application, or at
any time thereafter within the sixty
days Of publication, shall file with the
register a certificate of the United
States Surveyor General that i've hun
dred dollars worth Of labor has been
expended or improvements made upon
the claim by himself or grantors; that
the pat is correct, with such further
description by such reference to natur-
al objects or permanent monuments as
shall identify the claim, aud furnish
an accurate description, to be incor-
porated in the patent. At the expira-
ton of the sixty days Of publication
the claimant shall file his affidavit,
showing that the plat and notice have
been posted in conspicuous place on
the claim during such period Of publ
cation, II no adverse claim shall
have been filed with the register and
receiver Of the proper land Office at
the expiration Of the sixty days, of
publication, it shall be assumed that
the applicant is entitled to patent.
aud that no adverse claim exists, and
upon the payment to the proper officer
Of five dollars per acre hs shall receive
certificate of entry; and thereafter
no objection from the third parties to
the issuance Of a patent shall be heard
except it be shown that the applicant
has failed to comply with the terms Of
this chapter. But no more than three
thousand feet in length along the vein
of claims located prior to the tenth
day of May, eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, and not more than the
extent of one claim fifte.n hundred
feet in length by SIX hundred feet in
width located after said date shall be
included in the same application for q
patent, aud not more than eighty
acres Of placer ground shall be in
cludsd in the same application for a
patent"
SEC. 4. That section twenty-three
hundred and thirty-four of the Re-
vised Statutes be amended by adding
thereto the following.
"And the surveyors appointed un-
der the provisions Of this section shall
have power to administer oaths to their
assistants.
SEC. 8. That section twenty three
hundred and thirty five of the Re-
vised Statutes be amended 50 as to
read:
"SEc. 1885. All atfidavits required
to be made under this chapter may be
verified before any officer authorized
to administer oaths in any State or
Territory of the United States or in
the District of Columbia, and all tes-
timony and proofs may be taken be-
fore any such officer, 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
agricultural character of land, the
testimony and proofs may be taken,