Stikeen River journal., 1899-07-22

this chapter.
 l Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section twenty-three hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended by ad ding thereto the following words: Pro- vided, That where the claimant for a patent is not q resident of or within the land district within the land district wherein the vein, lode, ledge or depos it sought to be patented is located, the application for patent and the affidavit required to be made in this section by the claimant for such patent may be made by his, her, or its authorized agent, where said agent is conversant with the facts sought to be established by said aiiical its: And provided. That this section shall apply to all applica tions now pending for patents to min eral lands.
 SEC. 232S. Applications for patents for mining claims under former laws now pending may be prosecuted to a final decision in the General Land or flee: but in such cases where adverse rights are not affected thereby. patents may issue In pcrsuanee of the provis- ions of this chapter: and all patents for mining claims upon veins OF lodcs here tofore issued shall convey all the rights and privileges conferred by this chap ter where no adverse rights existed on the 10th day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.
 B. As condition for the making of application for patent accortlin" to sec tion 2325. there must be d preliminary showing of work or expenditure upon each location. either by showing the full amount sufficient to the maintcn- ance of possession under section 2324 for the pending year.: or, if there has been failure. it should be shown that work has been resumed so that reloca ment.
 The ''pending year. means the cal endar year in which application is made, and has no reference to a show ing of work at date of the final entry.
 3S. This preliminary showing may where the matter is unquestioncd, con- sist of the atfidavits of two or more wit nesses familiar with the facts.
 
 first place, to have d correct survey of his claim made under authority of the surveyor-general of the State or Ter ritory in which the claim lies. such survey to show with accuracy the cX- terior surface boundaries of the claim, which boundaries are required to be distinctly marked by monuments on the ground. Four plats and one copy of the original field notes in each case will be prepared by the >urveyor-gen- eral one plat and the original field notes to be retai ned in the office of the surveyor-general. one copy of the plat to be given the clai naat for posting upon the claim. one plat and Il copy of the field notes to be given the claimant for filing with the proper register, to be finally transmitted by that officer, with other papers in the case. to this office, and one plat to be sent by the surveyor-general to the register of the proper land district, to be retained on his files for future reference. As there is no resident tsurveyor-gencral for the State of Arkansas, applications for the survey of mineral claims in said State should be made to thc Commissioner of this office, who, under the law. is cX- offcio the l.. 5. survcyor-ycncral.
 40. The survey and plat of mineral claims required to be filed in the prop CT land office with appi'ltion for pat ent must be mada subsequent to the re- cording of the location of the mine: and when the original location is made by survey of United States deputy sur veyor such location surrey can not be snbs,itat,d f,r llt r'Iui"ed by the i statute aS above in,iica: tal.
 DIRECTIONS FOR PREPARING PLAT.
 II. The survey Aor-gcneral should dcs- iynatc all surveyed mineral claims by q progressive series of numbers. begin ming with survey No B, irrispcctivc to whether they are situated on survey