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the prescribed amount, with the intention of residing thereon and obtaining 
a title thereto under the provisions of this act. 
Sec. 6. That if within three years after the organization of the pastur- 
age district the claimants therein, in their organized capacity, shall apply 
for a survey of said district to the Surveyor-General of the-United States, 
he shall cause a proper survey to be made, together with a plat of the 
same; and on this plat each tract or parcel of land into which the district 
is divided shall be numbered, and the measure of every angle, the length 
of every line in the botindaries thereof, and the number of acres in each 
tract or parcel, shall be inscribed thereon, and the name of the district shall 
appear on the plat in full; and this plat and the field-notes of such survey 
shall be submitted to the Surveyor-General of the United States; and it 
shall be the duty of that officer to examine the plat and notes therewith 
and prove the accuracy of the survey in such manner as the Commissioner 
of the General. Land Office may prescribe; and if it shall appear after 
such examination and proving that correct surveys have been made, and 
that the several tracts claimed are within the provisions of this act, he shall 
certify the same to the register of the land district, and shall furnish to the 
said register of the land district, and to the recorder of the pasturage dis- 
trict, and to the recorder or clerk of the county in which the pasturage 
district is situate, and to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, a 
copy thereof to each; and the original shall be retained in the office of 
the Surveyor-General of the United States for preservation. 
Sec. 7. That each person applying for the benefits of this act shall, 
in addition to compliance therewith, conform to the methods provided for 
the acquirement of a homestead in sections twenty-two hundred and eighty- 
nine to twenty-three hundred and seventeen, inclusive, of the Revised 
Statutes of the United States, so far as they are applicable and consistent 
with this act, and may thereupon obtain a patent: Provided, That no 
person shall obtain a patent under this act to any coal lands, town sites, or 
tracts of public lands on which towns may have been built, or to any mine 
of gold, silver, cinnabar, copper, or other mineral for the sale or disposal of 
which provision has been made by law. 
Sec. 8. That the lands patented under the provisions of this act shall 
