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Sec. 2325. A patent for any land claimed and located for valuable deposits 

 may be obtained in the following manner: Any person, association, or cor- 

 poration 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 conspicuous place on the land embraced in such plat previous to the 

 filing of the application for a patent, and shall file an affidavit of at least two 

 persons that such notice has been duly posted, and shall file a copy of the notice 

 in such land-office, and shall thereupon be entitled to a patent for the land, in 

 the manner following: The register of the land-office, upon the filing of such 

 application, plat, field-notes, notices, and affidavits, shall publish a notice that 

 such application has been made, for the period of sixty days, in a newspaper to 

 be by him designated as published. nearest to such claim; and 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 hundred dollars' worth of labor has been expended 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 an accurate description, to be incorporated in 

 the patent. At the expiration of the sixty days of publication, the claimant shall 

 file his affidavit, showing that the plat and notice have been posted in a con- 

 spicuous place on the claim during such period of publication. If no adverse 

 claim shall have been filed with the register and the receiver of the proper land- 

 office at the expiration of the sixty days of publication, it shall be assumed that 

 the applicant is entitled to a patent, upon the payment to the proper officer of 

 five dollars per acre, and that no adverse claim exists ; and thereafter no objec- 

 tion from third parties to the issuance of a patent shall be heard, except it be 

 shown that the applicant has failed to comply with the terms of this chapter. 



Sec. 2326. Where an adverse claim is filed during the period of publication, 

 it shall be upon oath of the person or persons making the same, and shall show 

 the nature, boundaries, and extent of such adverse claim, and all proceedings, 

 except the publication of notice and making and filing of the affidavit thereof, 

 shall be stayed until the controversy shall have been settled or decided by a 

 court of competent jurisdiction, or the adverse claim waived. It shall be the 



