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Record of location notices, in absence of a district recorder, should be made with the proper recorder of deeds for the county wherein the claim is situated. It is advisable to have these notices attested by at least two witnesses, for locators can not be too careful about their evidence. In relocations to increase width of surface ground under the local law, or to more particularly identify or describe the claim, use the above form, but state after the description that it is a relocation, and in addition where the original location is recorded, in order that the title may revert back to the original discovery. In locations of abandoned mines, the fact that it is such a location should be stated, and the affidavits of two or more respectable parties that such mine was abandoned and subject to relocation should be recorded with the location notice.

No quartz claim can be legally located until a vein or lode has been first discovered. This should be done by sinking a prospect or discovery shaft. The exterior boundaries of the claim must be distinctly marked by permanent stakes, or monuments placed at the corners of the claim. The notice should be posted at the discovery shaft and a copy of the same recorded within twenty days after the location. In all cases where practicable, the location should be made under a survey by a qualified deputy surveyor.

FORM B.

No. 337. Notice of Location of a Placer Claim. [BLANK PUBLISHED.]

Notice is hereby given to all whom it may concern, that citizens of the United States, over the age of twenty-one years, have this day located under the Revised Statutes of the United States, chap. 6, tit., 32, the following described placer mining ground, viz. :*

situated in

Mining District, ...... County, State

Placer

of...... This claim shall be known as the Mining Claim, and we intend to work the same in accordance with the local customs and rules of miners in said mining district.

Dated on the ground this .... day of ..........

188.

A person or association of persons claiming under regular location a lode or quartz mine, or a placer claim, upon unsurveyed land, and desiring to obtain title thereto from the United States, should first make application to the United States' Surveyor-general for the State or Territory within which the claim is located for a survey thereof, using Form C.

FORM C.

No. 356. Application to U. S. Surveyor-general for Survey of Mining Claim.

[BLANK PUBLISHED.]

U. S. Surveyor-general for...

SIR: In compliance with the provisions of the Revised Statutes of the United States, clap. 6, tit. 32, and instruc

*NOTE.-If on surveyed land, describe the legal subdivision. If upon unsurveyed land describe as accurately as possible by course and distance.

tions issued thereunder,

herewith make application

for an official survey of the mining claim known as the .. Mine, claimed by .., located in .............. Mining District, in the County of Township No. Range No. .... ...Base and Meridian, in the State of .., mentioned and described in the annexed record of location, and ...... request that you will send to ...... address an estimate of the amount to be deposited for the work to be done in your office; and after such deposit shall have been made, you will cause the said mining claim to be surveyed by U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor, and will make a plat thereof, indorsed with your approval, designating the number and description of the location, and the value of the labor and improvements made by the locator or his grantees on said mining claim; and that you will transmit duplicate copies of said plat to applicant

with a certified copy of the field notes of survey of said mining claim.

The expenses of office work ...... herewith tendered, and request that prompt action be taken therein.

P. O. Address,

Claimant.

County,

NOTE. If the applicant is not in actual possession of the ground, au affidavit stating how he was dispossessed, when he was last in possession, and what adverse claims there are, should be filed. This affidavit should state all the material facts and circumstances.

The Surveyor-general will furnish the applicant with an estimate of the expenses for the office work, covering the items set forth in Form D; and the required deposit having been made, will direct a United States deputy mineral surveyor to make the survey.

FORM D.

Estimate of U. S. Surveyor-general for Office Work for Mining Claim.

U. S. SURVEYOR-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

SAN FRANCISCO,

County, California:

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I have received your application, dated

18.., made under the provisions of Chapter Six Revised Statutes of the United States, for a survey of the mining claim known as the ...... mine, claimed by

located in ... mining district, in the county of township No... . ., range No.

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base and meridian,

in the State of California; also for an estimate of the expense of the office work required to be done in this office.

In reply, I herewith furnish an estimate of the amount to be paid for such office work, viz.:

Stationery...

Examination of the original field-notes
Protraction of the original plat

Making duplicate and triplicate plats for claimant
Transcription of the original field-notes for claim-
ant,..

Preparing diagrams for the general and local land offices.

Total....

$....

The said amount must be deposited with the U. S. Assistant Treasurer in San Francisco, and his certificate, in triplicate, taken therefor, and sent to this office: one to be transmitted to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and one to the Treasurer of the United States, and the other to be forwarded to you.

Upon the filing of said certificate, in duplicate, in this office, I will at once authorize the survey of said mining claim by a United States deputy mineral surveyor.

After the survey and office work have been completed, I will transmit to your address two certified plats of said mining claim, and a certified transcript of the field-notes for your use. Very respectfully,

U. S. Surveyor-general for California.

FORM E.

U. S. SURVEYOR-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Esq., U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor,

County.

SIR: Having received an application from

18..

under the provisions of an act of Congress, approved May 10, 1872, entitled "An act to promote the development of the mining resources of the United States," for a survey of the .. mining claim, known as the .... mine, in the ...... mining district,

range No.

....

claimed by
county of .., township No.
base and meridian, in the State of,
and appoint you to execute the said survey.

I hereby deputize

You will make said survey so as to define correctly the locus of the ground described in the annexed record of location, and according to the monuments therein referred to.

You will make your survey in strict conformity to the

law and special instructions to deputy mineral surveyors from this office.

You will make full report on all matters connected therewith, the value of the improvements, work and labor done on said claim, in the currency of the United States, the character of the vein exposed, and its connection with some established monuments of public surveys.

You will transmit to this office, without unnecessary delay, your field-notes of survey, your final oath, the preliminary and final oaths of your assistants, your report, a diagram of said mine, and the affidavits of two disinterested witnesses that to the best of their knowledge and belief, from their acquaintance with said mine, the value of the labor and improvements thereon is not less than five hundred dollars.

The United States will not be responsible for the payment of your services; you will therefore make satisfactory arrangements with the claimants before proceeding with your survey. Very respectfully,

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of lawful age, each for

himself and not one for the other, being first duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is a citizen of the United States, that he is well acquainted with the mining claim, situated in

mining district,

..made

county and territory aforesaid, for which application for patent under the provisions of an act of Congress, approved May 10, 1872; that he is not interested in the aforesaid mining claim, either directly or indirectly; that he was present on the .... day of ...., A. D. 188.., on the ground of said mining claim; and that the survey of said mining claim, made on that date, by

sur

veyor, embraces the identical ground originally claimed by its locators; and, further, that the initial point of discovery of said lode or mining claim, from which said survey has been made by the said surveyor, is the same place where the notice of said lode or mining claim originally was posted.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this.... day of... A. D. 188.., and I hereby certify that I consider the above deponents credible and reliable witnessess.

After the survey has been duly made, the field-notes of survey and plat thereof returned, and the whole approved by the Surveyor-general, the party may then make application to the register and receiver for the land district within which the claim is located, for a patent, using

FORM G.

No. 339. Application for Patent.

[BLANK PUBLISHED.]

.of.... County of......, SS.

Application for patent for the..

.mining claim.

To the Register and Receiver of the United States land

office, at

and ...... of

linear to

.......... min

and be

..being duly sworn, according to law, deposes and says, that in virtue of a compliance with the mining rules, regulations, and customs by himself, the said ...... and his co-claimants, applicants for patent herein, ha.. become the owner. . of, and .... in the actual, quiet, and undisturbed possession of feet of the ...... vein, lode, or deposit bearing. gether with surface ground... feet in width, for the convenient working thereof, as allowed by local rules and customs of miners; said mineral claim, vein, lode, or deposit and surface ground being situated in the ing district, county of ing more particularly set forth and described in the official field-notes of survey thereof, hereto attached, dated .... day of...., A. D. 18 18., and in the official plat of said survey, now posted conspicuously upon said mining claim or premises, a copy of which is filed herewith. Deponent further states that the facts relative to the right of possession of himself (and his said co-claimants herein before named) to said mining claim, vein, lode, or deposit and surface ground, so surveyed and platted, are substantially as follows, to wit: (Give full description of claim, from whom and the manner in which title was derived.) Which will more fully appear by reference to the copy of the original record of location, heretofore furnished, and the abstract of title hereto attached and made a part of this affidavit; the value of the labor done and the improvements made upon said ...... claim, by himself and his grantors, being equal to the sum of five hundred dollars, and said improvements consist of (describe in detail). In consideration of which facts, and in conformity with the provisions of chapter six, of title thirty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, application is hereby made for and in behalf of said for a patent from the Government of the United States for the said ...... mining claim, vein, lode, deposit, and the surface ground so officially surveyed and platted.

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