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be; but, in addition to this description ot the land, the notice must give all 

 the other data that is required in a mineral application, by which parties may 

 be put on inquiry as to the premises sought to be patented. The proofs sub- 

 mitted with applications for claims of this kind must show clearly the character 

 and the extent ot the improvements upon the premises. 



Inasmuch as the surveyor-general has no duty to perform in connection with 

 the entry of a placer claim of legal subdivisions, the proof of improvements 

 must show their value to be not less than five hundred dollars and that they 

 were made by the applicant for patent or his grantors. The annual expendi- 

 ture to the amount of $100, required by section 2324, Revised Statutes, must 

 be made upon placer claims as well as lode claims. 



58. Applicants for patent to a placer claim, who are also in possession of a 

 known vein or lode included therein, must state in their application that the 

 placer includes such vein or lode. The published and posted notices must also 

 include such statement. If veins or lodes lying within a placer location are 

 owned bv other parties, the fact should be distinctly stated in the application 

 for patent, and in all the notices. But in all cases whether the lode is claimed 

 or excluded, it must be surveyed and marked upon the plat; the field notes and 

 plat giving the area of the lode claim or claims and the area of the placer sepa- 

 rately. It should be remembered that an application which omits to include an 

 application for a known vein or lode therein, must be construed as a conclusive 

 declaration that the applicant has no right of possession to the vein or lode. 

 Where there is no known lode or vein, the fact must appear bv the affidavit of 

 two or more witnesses. 



59. By section 2330, it is declared that no location of a placer claim, made 

 after July 9, 1870, shall exceed one hundred and sixty acres for any one person 

 or association of persons, which location shall conform to the United States 

 surveys. 



60. Section 2331 provides that all placer-mining claims located after May 10, 

 1872, shall conform as nearly as practicable with the United States systems of 

 public surveys and the subdivisions of such surveys, and no such locations shall 

 include more than twenty acres for each individual claimant. 



61. The foregoing provisions of law are construed to mean that after the 9th 

 day of July, 1870, no location of a placer claim can be made to exceed one 

 hundred and sixty acres, whatever may be the number of locators associated 

 together, or whatever the local regulations of the district may allow ; and that 

 from and after May 10, 1872, no location made by an individual can exceed 

 twenty acres, and no location made by an association of individuals can exceed 

 one hundred and sixty acres, which location of one hundred and sixty acres can 



