120 ALASKA. 



The surveyors-general and local land oiiicers are expected to report any 

 infringement of this regulation to this office. 



102. The law requires that each applicant shall file with the register and 

 receiver a sworn statement of all charges and fees paid by him for publication of 

 notice and for survey, together with all fees and money paid the register and 

 receiver, which sworn statement is required to be transmitted to this office for 

 the information of the Commissioner. 



103. Should it appear that excessive or exorbitant charges have been made 

 by any surveyor or any publisher, prompt action will be taken with the view of 

 correcting the abuse. 



104. The fees payable to the register and receiver for filing and acting upon 

 applications for mineral-land patents are five dollars to each officer, to be paid 

 by the applicant for patent at the time of filing, and the like sum of five dollars 

 is payable to each officer bv an adverse claimant at the time of filing his adverse 

 claim. (Sec. 2238, R. S., paragraph 9.) 



105. All fees or charges under this law may be paid in United States cur- 

 rency. 



106. The register and receiver will, at the close of each month, forward to 

 this office an abstract of mining applications filed, and a register of receipts, 

 accompanied with an abstract of mineral lands sold, and an abstract ot adverse 

 claims filed. 



107. The fees and purchase money received by registers and receivers must 

 be placed to the credit of the United States in the receiver's monthly and quar- 

 terly account, charging up in the disbursing account the sums to which the reg- 

 ister and receiver may be respectively entitled as fees and commissions, with 

 limitations in regard to the legal maximum. 



PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE REGISTER AND RECEIVER AND SUB VEYORS-GENERAL IN 

 CONTESTS AND HEARINGS TO ESTABLISH THE CHARACTER OF LANDS. 



108. The "Rules of Practice in cases before the United States district land 

 offices, the General Land Office, and the Department of the Interior," approved 

 August 13, 1885, will, as far as applicable, govern in all cases and proceedings 

 arising in contests, and hearings to determine the mineral or nonmineral character 

 of lands. 



109. The only tracts of public land that will be withheld from entry as agri- 

 cultural land on account of its mineral character, will be such as are returned 

 by the surveyor-general as mineral; and even the presumption which is sup- 

 ported by such return may be overcome by testimony taken at a regular hearing. 



1 10. Hearings to determine the character of land, as practically distinguished, 

 are of two kinds : 



