The Arizona sentinel., 1902-04-09
FEDERAL TIMING LAW.

Revised Statutes are published
 for general information:
 Section 2325. A patent for any
 land claimed and located for val
 uable deposits may be obtained
 in the following manner: Any
 person, association or corpora
 tiOn authorized to locate a claim
 under this chapter, having
 claimed and located a piece of
 land for such purposes who has,
 or have, complied with
 the terms of this 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 monu-
 mentS on the ground, and shall post a copy of such plat, togeth CT with notice of such applica
 tion for patent, in a conspicuous
 place on the land embraced in such plat previous to the filing of the application for a patent, and shall file an affidavit of at least two persons that such mo- tice has been duly posted, and shall file a copy of the notice in such land office, and shall there upon be entitled to a patent for the land in the following man. ner: The register of the land office, upon the filing of such ap- plication, platS, field notes, mo- tices and affidavitS, shall publish d notice that such application has been made, for the period of sixty days, in newspaper to be by him designated as published to such claim; and he shall also post such notice m his office for the same period. The claimant at the time of filing his or atany time there after, within sixty days of pub lication, shall file with the regis ter certificate of the United States Surveyor General that $500 worth of labor has been ex- pended on improvements made upon the claim by himself or grantors; thatthe plat is correct, with such further description by such reference to natural objects or permanent monuments as shall identify tbe claim and furnish an accurate description to be incOr porated in the patent. At the 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 pub lication. If no adverse claim shall have been filed with the register and receiver of the proper land office at the eXpira- ton of the sixty days of publica- ton, it shall be assumed that the is entitled to a patent upon the payment to the proper officer of S5 per acre, and that no adverse claim exists; and thereafter no objection from 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.
 Section 2327. The description of vein or lode claims, upon sur veyed lands, shall designate the location of the claim with refer ence to the lines of the public surveys, but need not conform herewith; but where a patent shall be issued for a claim upon lands, the Surveyor General, in extending the sur veys, shall adjust the same to the boundaries of such patented claim, according to the plat of description thereof, but so as in no case to interfere with or change the location of any such patented claim.
 Fly act of congress of Jan. 22, 1880, sections 2324 and 2325 were amended by adding thereto the