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classify said lands without reference or regard

SlooSlis SdlQ ILLUS lcIeuCc VI iCSdAN
to any previous examination or report or CLASH
fcatiOn thereof
Sixth-Within certain time after the COM
ing in OF each report OF said commissioners
(Which time shall hereafter be fixed by rule) q
relinq uishment or abandonment shall be filed
in the proper land Office by the railroad COM
pany affected by such report of all the lands
designated in such report as mineral lands,
and such REIMBURSEMENT or abandonment
shall be final and irrevocable.
Seyenth-It shall be stipulated that no fur
ther action shall be had or taken in or by the
Land Department of the United States or by
any OF its officers on any protest or other pro-
ceeding heretofore commenced by the Califor-
MIA Miners Association or under its auspices
against the patenting of any of said lands,
and that no further action shall be had or
taken toward the patenting of any OF the
lands affected by any such protest or pro-
ceeding until after such commission shall
have examined and reported upon the
lands affected by such protest or proceeding,
and the railroad company affected by such re-
port shall have filed in the proper land office
its REIMBURSEMENT or abandonment of the
lands classified in such report as mineral lands
provided, however, that any such protest or
proceeding shall forthwith be Withdrawn upon
the withdrawal of the railroad company
affected by such protest or proceeding of the
list of lands to which such protest or proceed
ing relates and the filing in the proper land
office by such railroad company OF sufficient
stipulation or other guaranty that such list
shall not again be filed, and that no other or
further action shall be had or taken toward
the patenting OF any OF the lands included In
such list until after such commission shall
have examined and reported upon the lands
included in such list and the railroad COM
pany affected by such report shall have filed
in the proper land Office its REIMBURSEMENT or
abandonment of the lands classified in such
report as mineral lands.
Eighth-And 1t shall be further stipulated
that upon the filing of the ACCOMPLISHMENTS or
abandonments above provided for all protests
and proceedings affecting the lists embracing
the lands SO relinquished or abandoned which
have heretofore been, or which may hereafter,
pending these negotiations, be made or insti-
tuted by or under the auspices OF the Cali
fornia Miners Association, shall be dismissed,
and thereafter no other or further protest or
proceeding shall be made or instituted by or
on behalf of said association or under It's aus
pices, obstructing or intending to obstruct the
patenting of any of the lands embraced in any
such list and reported by said commissioners
as noG-mineral lands
Ninth-No list of selections shall hereafter be
filed in any of the United States land offices in
this State by said railroad companies or any
of them until such commissioners shall have
examined and reported upon the lan1S en-
braced in such list
Tenth-Either side to the agreement may at
Will discharge or remove any commissioner
that may have been appointed by it, and shall
appoint another commissioner in the place OF
the one SO discharged or removed, provided
that no such discharge or removal shall take
effect pending examination and report by
such commissioners upon any list of selec-
tons submitted to them for examination and
classification, the time within which such ex-
animation shall be made and such report sub
miJted to be hereafter fixed by rule. The dis
charge or removal of either of the first two
commissioners shall operate to remove the
third commissioner, II any be then acting, but
such third commissioner may be again ap-
pointed in the manner above provided.
Eleventh-Each side to the proposed agree
ment shall defray the compensation and ex-
penses of the commissioner appointed by 1T,
and in all cases where q third commissioner
shall he mnlOyed his nnnEAtinn and
penses shall be paid jointly By the two sides.
Twelfth-The proposed agreement shall be
operative until Congress shall have passed
some law providing for the classification Of
said lands.
The views above expressed are concurred in
by Hon. ]. III. Nef, president of the California
member of this committee by the request Of
executive committee of said association.
Should the foregoing provisions be accept
able TO you this committee will be pleased to
Join you in formulating set OF rules for the
government of the parties and of said commits
sioners in carrying out the proposed agree
ment; and in this connection this committee
submits that the provisions OF the act OF Con-
gress entitled can act to provide Tor the exam
ination and classification of certain mineral
lands in the States of Montana and Idaho,' ap-
proved February 26, 1895 and the rules pro-
mulgated by the Land Department for the pur-
pose OF carrying such act into effect, should, as
far as they may be applicable, furnish the
basis for the system of rules that shall be es-
IdDllS neu IOT carrying the pIOpOSeQ dSTetLucub
into effect. Very respectfully,
A. II. RICKETTS,, Chairman.
JOHN NJ. WRIGHT.
CHARLES q. YALE.
G. +. HOFFMAN.
e. c. LOTUS.
Committee of the California Miners Associa-
ton on Protection of Mineral Lands.
The letter was Immediately mailed to
Mr.. Mills and the committee will do moth
ing until an answer is received from him.