The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-06-23


low tide subject to such general rules
and regulations as the secretary o.
war may prescribe for the preserva-
tion of order and the protection OF
the interests of commerce; such rules
and regulations shall not, however
deprive miners on the beach of the
right hereby given to dump tailings
or pump from the sea opposite their
claims, except where such dumping
would actually obstruct navigation:
and the reservation of "a roadway 60
feet wide, under the 10th section OF
the act of May II. 1895 entitled An
act extending the homestead laws and
/ providing for right of way for rail-
roads in the District of Alaska, and
for other purposes. shall not apply to
mineral lands or town sites.
Sec. 10. No act passed at the first
SC ssion of the thirty-eight congress
granting lands to states or corpora
tions to aid i'm the construction Of
reads or for other purposes. or to ex-
tend the time of grants made prior to
the SOth day of January. 1865 shall
he so construed as to embrace min
eral lands which in all cases are re-
reserved exclusively to the United
states. unless otherwise specially
provided in the act or acts making
the grant
"Sec. 20 No possessory action be-
United States for the recovery of any
mining title or for damages to any
such title shall be affected by the
fact that the paramount title to the
land in which such mines lie is in the
United States; but each case shall be
adjudged by the law of possession.
Sec 21 The secretary of the
treasury is hereby authorized and di-
rected to pay. out of the moneys here
tofore or hereafter covered into the
treasury from deposits made by indi-
viduals to cover cost of work perform
ed and to be performed in the Office
of the United States surveyors gen
eral in connection with the survey of
mineral lands. any excess in the /
amount deposited over and above the
actual cost of the work performed, in /
Guiding all expenses incident thereto |
for whic hthe deposits were severally /
made or the whole of any unused de- /
post; and such sums. as the several /
cases may be, shall be deemed to be /
for that purpose. Such repayments
shall be made to the person or per-
sons who made the several deposits,
Or to his or their legal representatives,
after the completion or abandonment
Of the work for which the deposits
were made, and upon an account GER
tilted by the surveyor general of the
district in which the mineral land sur
yeyed, or sought to be surveyed is
situated and approved by the COM
missioner of the general land office.
SEC % Whereby special act of
congress land has been opened to ex-
oloitation under the mineral land laws
If the United States but subject to
my special limitation or condition
in such special act, this act
shall not be construed as waving
iuch limitation or condition.
Sec % SO much of the act of
August 4, 1892 OF statutes at large.
,age S4S) as provides for the entry of
ands chiefly valuable for building
tone under the provisions of the law
elating to placer mining claims is
hereby amended by striking out the
word placer and hereafter this act
hall be substituted for the placer
mining law in the making of such
ntres.
"Sec. "a. The provisions of this act
hall not apply to public lands in the
tates of Michigan, Wisconsin. Min
esota, Missouri, Kansas or Alabama.
Repeating Section.
"Sec. 25. The following sections of
he Revised Statutes, that is, Section
800. relating to the size of lode
laims; section 1922, relating to the
lights in mining claims; section 1928,
elating to rights initiated prior to
lay 10, 1872; section 1929, providing
or the location of placer claims; sec
ion 1880, relating to placer claims;
ection 1881, relating to the survey
ection 1882, relating to claims held
Or a statutory period and to liens on
laims; section 1888, relating to the
atenting of placer claims; section
1885, relating to intersecting veins:
ection 1888. relating to state rules
DR. working mines; section 2S41, re-
lting to preemption and homestead
ntries of lands designated as min
raj lands; section 2S42, relating to
he designation of agricultural lands;
nd section 2S44. relating to rights ac
ured under prior existing law; also
ne act of congress approved June 6,
STA OS statutes at large. page CD
alating to expenditures of labor and
on mining claims; and
ne act of congress approved Febru-
ny II, 1875 as statutes at large, page
l5) relating to tunnel work are here
Y reepaled: Provided that nothing
in this act, except as ex
ressly provided. shall be construed
} affect any right heretofore mi
ated"