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Under this autherity of law the following rates have been established as the 

 maximum charges for newspaper publications in mining cases: 



(i) Where a daily newspaper is designated, the charge shall not exceed seven 

 dollars for each ten lines of space occupied, and where a weekly newspaper is 

 designated as the medium of publication five dollars for the same space will be 

 allowed. Such charge shall be accepted as full payment for publication in each 

 issue of the newspaper for the entire period required by law. 



It is expected that these notices shall not be so abbreviated as to curtail the 

 description essential to a perfect notice, and the said rates established upon the 

 understanding that they are to be in the usual body-type used for advertisements. 



(2) For the publication of citations in contests or hearings involving the 

 character of lands, the charges shall not exceed eight dollars for five publications 

 in weekly newspapers, or ten dollars for publications in daily newspapers for 

 thirty days. 



98. The surveyors-general of the several districts will, in pursuance of said 

 law, appoint in each land district as many competent deputies for the survey of 

 mining claims as may seek such appointment ; it being distinctly understood that 

 all expenses of these notices and surveys are to be borne by the mining claim- 

 ants and not by the United States; the system of making deposits for mineral 

 surveys, as required by previous instructions, being hereby revoked as regards 

 field zvork; the claimant having the option of employing any deputy surveyor 

 within such district to do his work in the field. 



99. With regard to the platting of the claim and other office work in the 

 surveyor-general's office, that officer will make an estimate of the cost thereof, 

 which amount the claimant will deposit with any assistant United States treas- 

 urer or designated depository in favor of the United States Treasurer, to be 

 passed to the credit of the fund created by "individual depositors for surveys 

 of the public lands," and file with the surveyor-general duplicate certificates of 

 such deposit in the usual manner. 



100. The surveyors-general will endeavor to appoint mineral deputy survey- 

 ors, so that one or more may be located in each mining district for the greater 

 convenience of miners. 



101. The usual oaths will be required of these deputies and their assistants 

 as to the correctness of each survey executed by them. 



The duty of the deputy mineral surveyor ceases when he has executed the 

 survey and returned the field notes and preliminary plat thereof with his report 

 to the surveyor-general. He will not be allowed to prepare for the mining 

 claimant the papers in support of an application for patent, or otherwise perform 

 the duties of an attorney before the land office in connection with a mining claim. 



