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the survey in such case, where the claims to be segregated are vein or lode claims, 

 must be executed in such manner as will conform to the requirements in section 

 2320, U. S. Revised Statutes, as to length and width and parallel end lines. 



1 15. Such survey when executed must be properly sworn to by the surveyor, 

 either before a notary public, officer of a court of record, or before the register 

 or receiver, the deponent's character and credibility to be properly certified to 

 by the officer administering the oath. 



1 16. Upon the filing of the plat and field notes of such survey, duly sworn to 

 as aforesaid, you will transmit the same to the surveyor-general for his verifica- 

 tion and approval; who, if he finds the work correctly performed, will properly 

 mark out the same upon the original township plat in his office, and furnish 

 authenticated copies of such plat and description both to the proper local land 

 office and to this office, to be affixed to the duplicate and triplicate township 

 plats respectively. 



1 17. With the copy of plat and description furnished the local office and this 

 office, must be a diagram tracing, verified by the surveyor-general, showing the 

 claim or claims segregated, and designating the separate fractional agricultural 

 tracts in each 40-acre legal subdivision by the proper lot number, beginning with 

 No. 1 in each section, and giving the area in each lot, the same as provided in 

 paragraph 45, in the survey of mining claims on surveyed lands. 



1 18. The fact that a certain tract of land is decided upon testimony to be min- 

 eral in character is by no means equivalent to an award of the land to a miner. 

 A miner is compelled by law to give sixty days' publication of notice, and post- 

 ing of diagrams and notices, as a preliminary step ; and then, before he can 

 enter the land, he must show that the land yields mineral; that he is entitled to 

 the possessory right thereto in virtue of compliance with local customs or rules 

 of miners, or by virtue of the statute of limitations ; that he or his grantors 

 have expended, in actual labor and improvements, an amount of not less than 

 five hundred dollars thereon, and that the claim is one in regard to which there 

 is no controversy or opposing claim. After all these proofs are met, he is 

 entitled to have a survey made at his own cost where a survey is required, after 

 which he can enter and pay for the land embraced by his claim. 



1 19. Blank forms for proofs in mineral cases are not furnished by the General 

 Land Office. 



Thomas H. Carter, 



Commissioner. 



Approved December 10th, 1891. 



John W. Noble, 



Seci'etary. 



