66 LAWS APPLICABLE TO THE NATIONAL FORESTS. 



the subsequent cancellation of the mill-site entry does not have the 

 effect to make the land a part of the National Forest or deprive the 

 Secretary of the Interior of jurisdiction to reinstate the canceled 

 entry with a view to the issuance of patent thereon. (Alaska Cop- 

 per Company et al., 43 L. D., 257.) 



COAL-LAND LAWS. 

 Entry of coal lands. 



Sec. 2347. Every person above the age of twenty-one years, who is 

 a citizen of the United States, or who has declared his intention to 

 become such, or any association of persons severally qualified as 

 above, shall, upon application to the register of the proper land 

 office, have the right to enter, by legal subdivisions, any quantity of 

 vacant coal lands of the United States not otherwise appropriated or 

 reserved by competent authority not exceeding one hundred and sixty 

 acres to such individual person, or three hundred and twenty acres to 

 such association, upon pajmient to the receiver of not less than ten 

 dollars per acre for such lands where the same shall be situated more 

 than fifteen miles from any completed railroad, and not less than 

 twenty dollars per acre for such lands as shall be within fifteen miles 

 of such road. 



Preemption of coal lands. 



Sec. 2348. Any person or association of persons severally qualified, 

 as above provided, who have opened and improved, or shall hereafter 

 open and improve, any coal mine or mines upon the public lands, and 

 shall be in actual possession of the same, shall be entitled to a pref- 

 erence right of entry, under the preceding section, of the mines so 

 opened and improved : Provided, That when any association of not 

 less than four persons, severally qualified as above provided, shall 

 have expended not less than five thousand dollars in working and im- 

 proving any such mine or mines, such association may enter not ex- 

 ceeding six hundred and forty acres, including such mining improve- 

 ments. 



Time of filing claims. 



Sec. 2349. All claims under the preceding section must be pre- 

 sented to the register of the proper land district within sixty days 

 after the date of actual possession and the commencement of im- 

 provements on the land, by the filing of a declaratory statement 

 therefor ; but when the township plat is not on file at the date of such 

 improvement, filing must be made within sixty days from the receipt 

 of such plat at the district office ; and where the improvements shall 

 have been made prior to the expiration of three months from the 

 third day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, sixty days 

 from the expiration of such three months shall be allowed for the 

 filing of a declaratory statement, and no sale under the provisions 

 of this section shall be allowed until the expiration of six months 

 from the third day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. 



Only one entry allowed. 



Sec. 2350. The three preceding sections shall be held to authorize 

 only one entry by the same person or association of persons; and no 

 association of persons any member of which shall have taken the 



