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claims; but where said placer claim shall be upon surveyed lands, and conforms 

 to legal subdivisions, no further survey or plat will be required, and all placer 

 mining claims located after May lo, 1872, shall conform as nearly as practicable 

 with the United States system of public-land surveys and the rectangular subdi- 

 visions of such surveys, and no such location shall include more than twentv 

 acres for each individual claimant ; but where placer claims can not be conformed 

 to legal subdivisions, survey and plat shall be made as on unsurveyed lands. 

 But where such claims are located previous to the public surveys, and do not 

 conform to legal subdivisions, survey, plat, and entry thereof may be made 

 according to the boundaries thereof, provided the location is in all respects legal. 



53. The proceedings for obtaining patents for veins or lodes having already 

 been fully given, it will not be necessary to repeat them here, it being thought 

 that careful attention thereto by applicants and the local officers will enable them 

 to act understandingly in the matter and make such slight inodifications in the 

 notice, or otherwise, as may be necessary in view of the different nature of the 

 two classes of claims, placer claims being fixed, however, at two dollars and 

 fifty cents per acre, or fractional part of an acre. 



54. By section 2330, authority is given for the subdivision of forty-acre legal 

 subdivisions into ten-aci'e lots, which is intended for the greater convenience of 

 miners in segregating their claims both from one another and from intervening 

 agricultural lands. 



55. It is held, therefore, that under a proper construction of the law these 

 ten-acre lots in mining districts should be considered and dealt with, to all 

 intents and purposes, as legal subdivisions, and that an applicant having a legal 

 claim which conforms to one or more of these ten-acre lots, either adjoining or 

 cornering, may make entry thereof, after the usual proceedings, without further 

 survey or plat. 



56. In cases of this kind, however, the notice given of the application must 

 be very specific and accurate in description, and as the forty-acre tracts may be 

 subdivided into ten-acre lots, either in the form of squares often by ten chains, 

 or if parallelograms five by twenty chains, so long as the lines are parallel and 

 at right angles with the lines of the public surveys, it will be necessary that the 

 notice and application state specifically what ten-acre lots are sought to be pat- 

 ented, in addition to the other data required in the notice. 



57. Where the ten-acre subdivision is in the form of a square it may be 

 described, for instance, as the " SE. % of the SW. % of NW. %" or, if in the 

 form of a parallelogram as aforesaid, it may be described as the " W. % of the 

 W. % of the SW. % of the NW. % (or the N. % of the S. % of the NE. % of 

 the SE. X) of section , township range ," as the case may 



