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and upon similar proceedings, as are provided for vein or lode claims; 

 but where the lands have been previously surveyed by the United 

 States, the entry in its exterior limits shall conform to the legal sub- 

 divisions of the public lands. 



Subdivisions of SEC. 2330. Legal subdivisions of forty acres may be subdivided 

 maximum. 1 'oYpia- ^ n ^ ten-acre tracts; and two or more persons, or associations of persons, 

 cer locations. having contiguous claims of any size, although such claims may be 

 less than ten acres each, may make joint entry thereof; but no location 

 of a placer claim, made after the ninth day of July, eighteen hundred 

 and seventy, shall exceed one hundred and sixty acres for any one 

 person or association of persons, which location shall conform to the 

 United States surveys; and nothing in this section contained shall 

 defeat or impair any bona fide preemption or homestead claim upon 

 agricultural lands, or authorize the sale of the improvements of any 

 bona fide settler to any purchaser. 



Conformity of g EC . 2331. Where placer claims are upon surveyed lands, and conform 

 surveys Hrnita to teg&l subdivisions, no further survey or plat shall be required, and 

 tions of claims, all placer-mining claims located after the tenth day of May, eighteen 

 hundred and seventy-two, shall conform as near as practicable with 

 the United States system of public-land surveys, and the rectangular 

 subdivisions of such surveys, and no such location shall include more 

 than twenty acres for each individual claimant; but where placer 

 claims can not be conformed to legal subdivisions, survey and plat 

 shall be made as on unsurveyed lands; and where by the segregation 

 of mineral lands in any legal subdivision a quantity of agricultural 

 land less than forty acres remains, such fractional portion of agricultural 

 land may be entered by any party qualified by law, for homestead or 

 preemption purposes^ 



What evidence SEC. 2332. Where 'such person or association, they and their grant- 

 to P S e 3isn etC a ors ' nave h^d an d worked their claims for a period equal to the time 

 right to a patent, prescribed by the statute of limitations for mining claims of the State 

 or Territory where the same may be situated, evidence of such posses- 

 sion and working of the claims for such period shall be sufficient to 

 establish a right to a patent thereto under this chapter, in the absence 

 of any adverse claim; but nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to 

 impair any lien which may have attached in any way whatever to any 

 mining claim or property thereto attached prior to the issuance of a 

 patent. 



Patents for non- g EC> 2337. Where nonmineral land not contiguous to the vein or lode 

 mineral lands, ^ g uge( j or OCCU pi ec i ^y the proprietor of such vein or lode for mining 



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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 of 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 provided in 

 this section. 



Act of January 31, 1901 (31 Stat., 745), extending mining laws to saline lands. 



Mining laws ex- That all unoccupied public lands of the United States containing 

 lands t0 Sa sa ^ springs, or deposits of salt in any form, and chiefly valuable 

 therefor, are hereby declared to be subject to location and purchase 

 under theprovisions of the law relating to placer-mining claims: 

 Provided, That the same person shall not locate or enter more than one 

 claim hereunder. 



Act of August 4, 1892 (27 Stat., 548), to authorize the entry of lands chiefly valuable 

 for building stone under the placer mining laws. 



Entry f lands That any person authorized to enter lands under the mining laws of 



forbiSlding -stone tne United States may enter lands that are chiefly valuable for building 



under the placer- stone under the provisions of the law in relation to placer-mineral 



mining laws. claims: Provided, That lands reserved for the benefit of the public 



schools or donated to any State shall not be subject to entry under 



this act. 



