The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-02-01
MINING LAWS.
TOR THE INFORMATION OF
Il ALL
Owners and Locators
OF MINES.
APPLICATIONS FOR PATENTS.
Tunnel R1EntS.
the LAW IN REGARD 70 ALIENS.
APPLICATIONS FOR PATENTS.
the LAW IN REGARD TO ALIENS.
APPLICATION FOR PATENT.

with the Register and Receiver they
become part OF the record, and can
neither be withdrawn nor returned,
but must be transmitted to the Gen
eral Office.
An application will be rejected
when the description OF the premises
Is erroneous or insufficient.
Application for patent will be re-
jected because:
First--The notice was published
without the knowledge OF the Regis
ter.
Second-The notice was not pub
lished in newspaper designated as
published nearest the claim.
Third-The record of title was found
detective, and
Fourth-A previous application had
been made for the same premises,
which was Withdrawn pending suit
in Court, commenced by the adverse
claimant.
An application for q patent will be
rejected when the survey does not
accurately define the boundaries of
Q claim.
Where The claim was not located in
accordance with law.
Where several parties own separate
and distinct portions of a claim, APP
plication for patent may be made by
either for that portion of the claim
Owned by him; but where several
parties own undivided interests in a
mining claim all should join in an
application for a patent
A person or association may pur-
chase as many placer claims as the
local law admits, and embrace them
all in one application for a patent.
Two or more lodes cannot be en-
braced iulone application for a patent,
except for placer claims EN- bracing
two or more lodes within their bound
aries.
Papers sworn to before any person
purporting to act as deputy for the
Register and Receiver cannot be re-
corded as evidence.
In all patents for mining claims
sitnated within the interior boundar-
e> of town site clause Is inserted
excepting and excluding all town
property, rights upon the surface, and
blocks, streets, alleys, or other NUM-
cipal improvements not belonging 10
the grantee herein, and all rights
necessary or proper tothe occupation,
possession or enjoyment of the same"
Publication of notice must be made
only in one newspaper for the period
OF sixty days.
Notice must be published ten con-
secutiye weeks in weekly newspapers,
and in daily papers sixty days must
elapse between the first and last in
sertions.
Where the Register designates the
daily issue OF newspaper for the
publication of notices of mining ap-
plication for a patent it is not in COM
pliance'with the law to change to the
weekly edition of the same paper
without authority of the Register.
The existence of salt spring on a
tract of land withdraws it from the
operations OF the homestead and pre-
einption laws. A hearing for the
purpose of proving the agricultural
character of such land is not allowed.
Land containing valuable deposits of
slate may be entered under the mining
acts.
ADVERSE CLAIMS.
Adverse claimants must flo separ-
ate and distinct claim against each
application which it Is alleged con.
ficts with the premises owned by
such adverse claimant.
The papers In an sdverse claim,
once hl6d, cannot be withdra wn, but
become part of the record.
When an adverse claim has been
6led 1t cannot be amended so as to
embrace larger portion of the premi-
ses than that described in the original
adverse claim.
And adverse claim must be made
out In proper form and filed in the
proper local office during the period
OF publication Of the application to be
effective.
1t Is the duty of the adverse claim
ant to commence suit in proper form
within the required time, and If he
intrustsfh uncertain medium of the
United States mail he must abide the
consequences, should delay ensue,
through misfortune or accident.
Should the failure to commence suit
be the result OF the corrupt or dishon-
est action OF bis attorneys, the Int