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39. The claimant, either at the time of filing these papers with the register 

 or at any time during the sixty days' publication, is required to file a certificate 

 of the surveyor-general that not less than five hundred dollars' worth of labor 

 has been expended or improvements made upon the claim by the applicant or 

 his grantors; that the plat filed by the claimant is correct; that the field-notes 

 of the survey, as filed, furnish such an accurate description of the claim as will, 

 if incorporated into a patent, serve to fully identify the premises, and that such 

 reference is made therein to natural objects or permanent monuments as will 

 perpetuate and fix the locus thereof. 



40. It will be the more convenient way to have this certificate indorsed by 

 the surveyor-general, both upon the plat and field-notes ot survey filed by the 

 claimant as aforesaid. 



41. After the sixty days' period of newspaper publication has expired the 

 claimant will furnish from the office of publication a sworn statement that the 

 notice was published for the statutory period, giving the first and last day of 

 such publication, and his own affidavit showing that the plat and notice afore- 

 said remained conspicuously posted upon the claim sought to be patented dur- 

 ing said sixty days' publication, giving the dates. 



42. Upon the filing of this affidavit the register will, if no adverse claim was 

 filed in his office during the period of publication, permit the claimant to pay 

 for the land according to the area given in the plat and field notes ot survey 

 aforesaid, at the rate of five dollars for each acre and five dollars for each frac- 

 tional part of an acre, the receiver issuing the usual duplicate receipt therefor. 

 The claimant will also make a sworn statement of all charges and tees paid by 

 him for publication and surveys, together with all fees and money paid the 

 register and receiver of the land office; after which the whole matter will be 

 forwarded to the Commissioner of the General Land Office and a patent issued 

 thereon if found regular. 



43. In sending up the papers in the case the register must not omit certifying 

 to the fact that the notice was posted in his office for the full period ot sixty 

 days, such certificate to state distinctly when such posting was done and how 

 long continued. 



44. The consecutive series of numbers of mineral entries must be continued, 

 whether the same are of lode or placer claims or mill sites. 



45. The surveyors-general should designate all surveyed mineral claims by a 

 progressive series of numbers, beginning with survey No. 37, irrespective as to 

 whether they are situated on surveyed or unsurveyed lands, the claim to be so 

 designated at date of issuing the order therefor, in addition to the local designa- 

 tion of the claim; it being required in all cases that the plat and field-notes of 

 the survey of a claim must, in addition to the reference to permanent objects in 



