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of the State of California, and at least
one OF whom shall be practical miner,
whose duty it shall be to inspect all
the lands about which hearings are or
dered, and to testify as witnesses to
all the facts which they have ascer-
tanned respecting the mineral or nom
mineral character of the lands which
they have examined, and such Com
missioners may also procure the at
tendance of other persons as witnesses
at such hearings, and may introduce
evidence as to the character of the
lands on trial. That at such hearings
evidence may be introduced to show
that any of such lands have, or prob
ably Will have, a market value by rea-
son of the minerals they contain or that
they show such indications of deposits
OF valuable minerals as would in
duce a miner to spend his money or
time upon them with the reasonable ex-
pectation of finding mineral in paying
quantities, or that such lands, from
their geological formation or location
in Well-defined mineral belt, or their
situation or propinquity or relation to
known mineral lands, are, or probably
will be, valuable for the minerals there
in and all these matters shall be con-
sidered in determining the mineral or
non-mineral character of such lands
y
sification herein provided for shall be
by sections, unless there are such diff
terenceS in the situation or character
of different parts of the same section as
require its classification by legal sub
divisions. Where patents have hereto
fore issued for mining ground in any
section of land this shall be taken as
pIima facie evidence that the forty
acre subdivision within which it is To-
Gated is mineral land; provided, that
the word mineral" where it occurs in
this Act, shall not be held to include
iron or coal; and provided further,
that the examination and classification
of lands hereby authorized shall be
made without reference or regard to
any previous examination or report or
classification thereof; and provided also
that appeals shall be allowed from the
decisions of the Register and Receiver
To the Commissioner of the General
Land Office and to the Secretary of the
Interior under such rules and regula-
tionS as the Secretary of the Interior
may prescribe.
Section g. That each of said Commits
sioners shall receive his travelling ex-
penseS and $40 for each day he is act
ually engaged in the performance of his
duties, and the accounts of said Com
nissloners shall be audited by the Sec
rotary of the Interior and paid month
~; and each attorney so appointed by
the President of the United States shall
receive his reasonable travelling eX-
penSes from his place of residence to
the United States Land Office which he
is required to attend and return, and
$40 for each day he is actually engaged
in the performance of his duties, and
his accounts shall be audited by the
Secretary of the Interior and paid
monthly And it is further provided
that all publications herein provided
for, and the cost of reporting the testi-
mOny given and evidence presented by
the said Commissioners, and the per
diem and expenses of the Commission
ers and attorneys shall be paid out of
the fund hereinafter provided for
Section Z. That there is hereby ap-
prOpriated out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated
the sum of $4,000, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, to be expended to
carry into effect the provisions of this
Act, the same to be paid out upon the
order Of the Secretary of the Interior;
and the Secretary of the Interior is
hereby required to embrace in the an
nual estimates submitted to Congress
for appropriations for the Interior De-
partment sufficient sum to pay the
said Commissioners, attorneys and ex-
penses for the fiscal year next ensuing,
and annually thereafter until the CLASH
fication of lands required by this Act
has been fully accomplished.
TREY L. Ford was selected as the
committees representative to go to
Washington to expidite the passage
of the bill through Congress.