UNDER THE UNITED STATES MINING STATUTES OF JULY 26, 1866, JULY 9, 1870,
AND MAY 10, 1872.

WITH APPENDIX OF CIRCULARS AND FORMS.

By HENRY N. COPP,

GENERAL LAND OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D.C.

SAN FRANCISCO :

A. L. BANCROFT AND COMPANY,
PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS, AND STATIONERS.

1874.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874,

BY A. L. BANCROFT AND COMPANY,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

The March 7, 1874

Witnesses and Testimony.

Every Person affected by a Decision should be heard.

Legality of Taxing Mining Claims while the Title is in the United States.

Assignment of Patents..

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General Land Office cannot supervise or disregard Decisions of Courts.

Circular Instructions apply to all United States Mineral Lands..

Any Member of a Company may be Agent for all..

Applicants for Patent must have the Local Possessory Right.

Patented Ground is Subject to Entry by Adjoining Proprietors.

Sulphur Springs are not regarded as Saline or Mineral...

Applicants for Different Lodes may be made Adverse Claimants to each

other..

Local Laws Govern Purchase of Other Parties' Locations.

How an Adverse Claimant may protect his Rights.

Water Rights protected by Local Laws..

Register and Receiver's Fees for Affidavits, Certificates, and Other

Writing...

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The Owner of a Lode may follow it to any depth, although it may enter

the Land Adjoining

Proceedings when Duplicate Receiver's Receipt is Lost..

Sections Sixteen and Thirty-six, when Mineral in Character, do not pass

to the State of Nevada...

Purchase Money is refunded only when a Mistake has occurred..

Number of Feet on a Lode that may be located and purchased in New

Mexico

Several Non-contiguous Tracts may be embraced in one Application for

Patent...

Public Lands containing Minerals cannot be Leased.

Application of Reed and Sanders. Adverse Claim rejected because not

filed before the Surveyor-general's Approval of Survey.

Placer Claims on Surveyed and Unsurveyed Land...

Mineral Lands cannot be Approved as State Selections.

Placers must be treated as on Unsurveyed Land until Township Plat is

filed in Local Office

Proceedings when an Error is discovered in Patent.

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Lien on Mines protected and strengthened by Patent..

Right of Drainage and Easement Protected..

Foreign Corporations cannot assert an Adverse Claim to Unpatented

Ground, A Claim cannot be taken for the Miners' Relief and Ter-

ritorial Poor Fund..

Definition of "Rock in Place."

Case of the New Idria Mining Company's Application for Patent for

Certain Mines in Fresno County, California

Local District Laws, in absence of State or Territorial Enactments, Gov-

ern Locations..

Cinnabar and Copper Deposits cannot be entered as Placers..

Disproving Mineral Character of Land for the benefit of Railroads..

Case of the Salt Lake Mining Company's Application for Patent for the

Flagstaff Mine, Salt Lake County, Utah

Legal Notice....

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