Year: 1872

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 the following requirements: The To-

 cation must be distinctly marked on

 tl,s cround so that its boundaries can

 l5e readily traced. All records of min

 ing claims hereafter made slall con-

 tam the name or names of the locators,

 the date of the location, and such 8

 description of the claim or claims To-

 cated by reference to some natural ob

 feet or permanent monument as will

 identify the claim. On each claim To-

 cated after the passage of this Act, and

 until a patent shall have been issued

 therefor, not less than one hundred

 dollars worth of labor shall be per

 formed or improvements made during

 each year. On all claims located

 prior to the passage of this Act, ten

 dollars worth of labor shall be per

 formed or improvements made each

 year for each one hundred feet in

 length along the vein until patent

 shall have been issued therefor but

 where such claims are held i'll common

 such expenditure may be made upon

 any one claim; and upon a failure to comply with these conditions, the claim or mine upon which such failure occurred shall be open to relocation Tn the same manner as if no location of the same had ever been made; pro vided, that the original locators, their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, have not resumed work upon the claim after such failure and before such To- cation. Upon the failure of any one of several co-owners to contribute his proportion of the expenditures required by this Act, the co-owners who have performed the labor or made the inn provements may, at the expiration of the year, give such delinquent CO., owner personal notice in writing or notice by publication in the newspaper published nearest the claim, for at least once week for ninety days, and if at the the expiration of ninety days after such notice in writing or by pub lication such delinquent should fall or refuse to contrib bate his proportion to comply with this Act, his interest in the claim shall become the property of his co-owners who have made the re- quired expenditures.

 Sec. G. That 6 patent for any land claimed and located for valuable de- posits may be obtained Ill the following manner: Any person, association, or corporation authorized to locate claim under this Act, having claimed and located a piece of land for such pur- poses, who has, or have, compiled with the terms of this Act, may file in the proper Land Office an application for 0 patent, under oath, showing such compliance, together with plat and field notes of the claim or claims in common, made by or under the direc- ton of the United States Surveyor General, showing accurately the boundaries of the claim or claims, which shall be distinctly marked by on the ground, and shall post @ copy of such plat, together with a notice of such application for @ pat ent, in Q conspicuous place on the land em braced in such plat previous to the filing of the application for patent, and shall file an affidavit of at least two persons that such notice has been duly posted as aforesaid, and shall file a copy of said notice in such Land Office, and shall thereupon be entitled to a patent for said land, in the manner following; The Register of the Land Office, upon the fling of such applica- ton, plat, field notes, notice and affi- dayIts, shall publisha notice that such has been made, for the period of sixty days, in Q newspaper to be by him designated as published nearest to said claim; end he shall also post such notice in hIs office for the same period. The claimant at the time of filing this application, or at any time thereafter, within the sixty days of publication, shall file with the Register a certificate of the United States Surveyor General that five hun lred dollars worth of labor has been or improvements made upon the claim by himself or grantors; that the plat Is correct, with such further description by such reference to natural objects or permanent monuments as shall identify the claim, and furnish ln accurate description, to be incor- oorated in the patent, At the expira- 5ion of the sixty days of publication he claimant shall file his affidavit,