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Interior, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall 

 be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and to which mav be 

 added imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months. 

 Approved June 3, 1878 (20 Stat., 88). 



AN ACT to amend sections twenty-three hundred and twenty-four and twenty-three hundred and 

 twenty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States concerning mineral lands. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 

 of America in Congress assembled. That section twenty-three hundred and 

 twenty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended bv adding 

 thereto the following words : ^^ Provided, That where the claimant for a patent 

 is not a resident of or within the land-district wherein the vein, lode, ledge, or 

 deposit sought to be patented is located, the application for patent and the 

 affidavits required to be made in this section by the claimant for such patent 

 may be made by his, her, or its authorized agent, where said agent is conversant 

 with the facts sought to be established by such affidavits : And provided. That 

 this section shall apply to all applications now pending for patents to mineral 

 lands." 



Sec. 2. That section twenty-three hundred and twenty-four of the Revised 

 Statutes of the United States be amended by adding the following words : 

 ^* Provided, That the period within which the work required to be done annu- 

 ally on all unpatented mineral claims shall commence on the first day of January 

 succeeding the date of location of such claim, and this section shall apply to all 

 claims located since the tenth day of May, anno Domini eignteen hundred and 

 seventv-two." 



Approved January 22, 1880 (21 Stat., 61). 



AN ACT to amend section twentj'-three hundred and twenty-six of the Revised Statutes relating 

 to suits at law affecting the title to mining-claims. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled. That if, in any action brought pur- 

 suant to section twenty-three hundred and twenty-six of the Revised Statutes, 

 title to the ground in controversy shall not be established by either party, the 

 jury shall so find, and judgment shall be entered according to the verdict. In 

 such case costs shall not be allowed to either party, and the claimant shall not 

 proceed in the land-office or be entitled to a patent for the ground in contro- 

 versy until he shall have perfected his title. 



Approved March 3, 1881 (21 Stat., 505). 



