ships withdrawn. of selection by the State for the aforesaid period of sixty days as herein provided for; and after the expiration of such period of sixty days any lands which may remain unselected by the State, and not otherwise appropriated according to law, shall be subject to disposal under general laws as other public lands: And provided further, That Notice of town- the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall give notice immediately of the reservation of any township or townships to the local land office in which the land is situate of the withdrawal of such township or townships, for the purpose hereinbefore provided: And provided further, That the governors of the several States herein named are authorized to advance money from time to time for the survey of the townships withdrawn at such United States depository as may be designated by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the moneys so advanced shall be reimbursable. The foregoing provisions shall be applicable to Utah when admitted as a State into the Union and a governor is duly inaugurated and acting. Advances. Selections of school lands on opened. Extract from the Indian appropriation act, approved March 2, 1895 (28 That any State or Territory entitled to indemnity reservations school lands or entitled to select lands for educational purposes under existing law may select such lands within the boundaries of any Indian reservation in such State or Territory from the surplus lands thereof, purchased by the United States after allotments have been made to the Indians of such reservation, and prior to the opening of such reservation to settlement. MINERAL LANDS. Revised Statutes, Sec. 910-Action for recovery of mining titles.. Act of June 6, 1874 (18 Stat., 61)-First annual payment ex- Act of May 5, 1876 (19 Stat., 52). -Missouri and Kansas excluded.. Page. 178 178 187 187 187 188 Act of January 22, 1880 (21 Stat., 61)—Application for patent by agent-Annual work to commence.. 188 Act of March 3, 1881 (21 Stat., 505)-No patent for land in controversy unless title is established.. 189 Act of April 26, 1882 (22 Stat., 49)—Adverse claim verified by agent-Affidavit of citizenship.. 189 Act of March 3, 1883 (22 Stat., 487)-Alabama excepted. 190. 190 Act of August 4, 1892 (27 Stat., 348)-Lands chiefly valuable for building stone subject to placer laws... 191 Act of June 10, 1896 (29 Stat., 353, 357, 360)-Ceded Fort Belknap and Blackfoot lands, Montana, and San Carlos, Arizona, subject to mineral land laws.. 191 Act of February 11, 1897 (29 Stat., 526)-Petroleum lands subject to placer laws... 192 Act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat., 34, 35, 36)—Mineral lands within forest reservations.. 192 Act of January 31, 1901 (31 Stat., 745)-Saline lands subject to placer laws.. 193 Act of May 27, 1902 (32 Stat., 263)-Mineral lands within the 193 194 Act of March 3, 1903 (32 Stat., 998)-Mining claims on Uncompahgre Indian Reservation, Utah 194 Act of April 23, 1904 (33'Stat., 302)-Mineral lands in the Flathead Indian Reservation, Mont.. 195 Act of April 27, 1904 (33 Stat., 352)-Crow Indian Reservation 196 Act of December 21, 1904 (33 Stat., 595)-Yakima Indian Reservation, Wash.. 196 Act of March 3, 1905 (33 Stat., 1016)-Shoshone or Wind River 197 Act of March 22, 1906 (34 Stat., 80)-Colville Indian Reservation, Wash... 197 4 Act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat., 336)—Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, Idaho.. 198 Act of May 27, 1908 (35 Stat., 365)—Mining claims prohibited in 198 61002°-S. Doc. 547, 64-1-12 177 Act of May 29, 1908 (35 Stat., 467)-Mining laws extended to Page. 198 Act of February 24, 1909 (35 Stat., 645)—Repayment of deposits 199 Act of February 25, 1909 (35 Stat., 650)-Five years allowed to 199 Act of March 2, 1911 (36 Stat., 1015)-To protect locators of oil 199 Act of August 25, 1914 (38 Stat., 708)-Amends act of March 2, 1911.. 200 Act of January 11, 1915 (38 Stat., 792)-Prior placer locations for 201 Possessory ac tion for recovery Feb. 27, 1865, 13 S., 441. UNITED STATES REVISED STATUTES. SEC. 910. No possessory action between persons, in of mining titles. any court of the 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. Mineral lands reserved. * * * * * SEC. 2318. In all cases lands valuable for minerals July 4, 1866, 14 shall be reserved from sale, except as otherwise expressly directed by law. S., 86. Mineral lands open to purchase by citizens. May 10, 1872, 17 S., 91. Length of mining claims upon veins or lodes. May 10, 1872, 17 S., 91. SEC. 2319. All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States. SEC. 2320. Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits, heretofore located, shall be governed as to length along the vein or lode by the customs, regulations, and laws in force at the date of their location. A mining claim located after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, whether located by one or more persons, may equal, but shall not exceed, one thousand five hundred feet in length along the vein or lode; but no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located. No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any mining regulation to less than twenty-five feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, except where adverse rights existing on the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, render such limitation necessary. The end lines of each claim shall be parallel to each other. zenship. 17 S., 94. SEC. 2321. Proof of citizenship, under this chapter, Proof of citimay consist, in the case of an individual, of his own affi-May 10, 1872, davit thereof; in the case of an association of persons unincorporated, of the affidavit of their authorized agent, made on his own knowledge or upon information and belief; and in the case of a corporation organized under the laws of the United States, or of any State or Territory thereof, by the filing of a certified copy of their charter or certificate of incorporation. ment. SEC. 2322. The locators of all mining locations hereto-Locators' rights of possesfore made or which shall hereafter be made, on any min- sion and enjoyeral vein, lode, or ledge, situated on the public domain, May 10, 1872, their heirs and assigns, where no adverse claim exists on 17 8., 91. the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, so long as they comply with the laws of the United States, and with State, Territorial, and local regulations not in conflict with the laws of the United States governing their possessory title, shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the surface included within the lines of their locations, and of all veins, lodes, and ledges throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of such surface lines extended downward vertically, although such veins, lodes, or ledges may so far depart from a perpendicular in their course downward as to extend outside the vertical side lines of such surface locations. But their right of possession to such outside parts of such veins or ledges shall be confined to such portions thereof as lie between vertical planes drawn downward as above described, through the end lines of their locations, so continued in their own direction that such planes will intersect such exterior parts of such veins or ledges. And nothing in this section shall authorize the locator or possessor of a vein or lode which extends in its downward course beyond the vertical lines of his claim to enter upon the surface of a claim owned or possessed by another. SEC. 2323. Where a tunnel is run for the development of a vein or lode, or for the discovery of mines, the owners of such tunnel shall have the right of possession of all veins or lodes within three thousand feet from the face of such tunnel on the line thereof, not previously known to exist, discovered in such tunnel, to the same extent as if discovered from the surface; and locations on the line of such tunnel of veins or lodes not appearing on the surface, made by other parties after the commencement of the tunnel, and while the same is being prosecuted with reasonable diligence, shall be invalid, but failure to prosecute the work on the tunnel for six months shall be considered as an abandonment of the right to all undiscovered veins on the line of such tunnel. SEC. 2324. The miners of each mining district may make regulations not in conflict with the laws of the United States, or with the laws of the State or Territory in which the district is situated, governing the location, Owners of tun- nels, rights of. 17 S., 92. made by miners. May 10, 1872, Regulations 17 S., 92. Patents for mineral lands, how obtained. May 10, 1872, 17, S., 92. manner of recording, amount of work necessary to hold possession of a mining claim, subject to the following requirements: The location must be distinctly marked on the ground so that its boundaries can be readily traced. All records of mining claims hereafter made shall contain the name or names of the locators, the date of the location, and such a description of the claim or claims located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim. On each claim located after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars' worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year. On all claims located prior to the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, ten dollars' worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made by the tenth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and each year thereafter, for each one hundred feet in length along the vein until a patent has been issued therefor; but where such claims are held in 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 in the same manner as if no location of the same had ever been made, provided that the original locators, their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, have not resumed work upon the claim after failure and before such location. Upon the failure of any one of several co-owners to contribute his proportion of the expenditures required hereby, the co-owners who have performed the labor or made the improvements 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 a week for ninety days, and if at the expiration of ninety days after such notice in writing or by publication such delinquent should fail or refuse to contribute his proportion of the expenditure required by this section his interest in the claim shall become the property of his co-owners who have made the required expenditures. SEC. 2325. A patent for any land claimed and located for valuable deposits may be obtained in the following manner: Any person, association, or corporation 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 a plat and field notes of the claim or claims in common, made by or under the direction of the United States surveyor-general, showing accurately the boundaries of the claim or claims, which shall be distinctly marked by monuments on the ground, and shall post a copy of such plat, together with a notice of such application for a patent, in a con |