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He should also report as to the use or adaptability of the claim for placer min- 

 ing; whether water has been brought upon it in sufficient quantity to mine the 

 same, or whether it can be procured for that purpose; and, finally, what works 

 or expenditures have been made by the claimant or his grantors for the develop- 

 ment of the claim, and their situation and location with respect to the same as 

 applied for. 



(5) This examination should be reported by the deputy under oath to the 

 surveyor-general, and duly corroborated ; and a copy of the same should be 

 furnished with the application for patent to the claim, constituting a part 

 thereof, and included in the oath ot the applicant. 



(6) Applications awaiting entry, whether published or not, must be made to 

 conform to these regulations, with respect to examination as to the character 

 of the land. Entries already made will be suspended for such additional proofs 

 as may be deemed necessary in each case. 



MILL-SITES. 



64. Section 2337 provides that "where nonmineral land not contiguous to 

 the vein or lode is used or occupied by the proprietor of such vein or lode for 

 mining or milling purposes, such nonadjacent surface ground may be embraced 

 and included in an application for a patent for such vein or lode, and the same 

 may be patented therewith, subject to the same preliminary requirements as to 

 survey and notice as are applicable to veins or lodes; but no location hereafter 

 made ot such nonadjacent land shall exceed five acres, and payment for the 

 same must be made at the same rate as fixed by this chapter for the superficies 

 of the lode. The owner of a quartz-mill or reduction-works, not owning a 

 mine in connection therewith, may also receive a patent for his mill-site, as pro- 

 vided in this section." 



65. To avail themselves of this provision of law, parties holding the possessory 

 right to a vein or lode, and to a piece of nonmineral land not contiguous thereto, 

 for mining or milling purposes, not exceeding the quantity allowed for such pur- 

 pose by section 2337, United States Revised Statutes, or prior laws, under 

 which the land was appropriated, the proprietors of such vein or lode may file 

 in the proper land-office their application for a patent, under oath, in manner 

 already set forth herein, which application, together with the plat and field-notes, 

 may include, embrace, and describe, in addition to the vein or lode, such non- 

 contiguous mill-site, and after due proceedings as to notice, etc., a patent will 

 be issued conveying the same as one claim. 



66. In making the survey in a case of this kind, the lode claim should be 

 described in the plat and field-notes as " Sur. No. 37, A," and the mill-site as 



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