CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX OF REVISED STATUTES. 



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Sec. 183. Officers, etc., may administer oaths 110 



Homestead laws: 



Sec 2288. Transfer of homestead lands 41 



Sec. 2289. Persons entitled to homestead rights. ..'. 41 



Sec. 2290. Mode of procedure 41 



Sec. 2291. Certificate and patent 42, 44 



Widows and heirs 42, 44 



Sec. 2292. Infant children 42 



Sec. 2293. Persons in military or naval service 42 



Sec. 2294. Affidavits and oaths, before whom taken 42 



False swearing 43 



Fees 43 



Sec. 2295. Recording of applications 43 



Sec. 2296. Homesteads not subject to prior debts 43 



Sec. 2297. Reverts to United States 43, 45 



Sec. 2298. Limited to quarter section 44 



Sec. 2301. Commutation 44 



Sec. 2302. Race and color 44 



Mining laws: 



Sec. 2318. Mineral land reserved 53 



Sec. 2319. Mineral lands open to purchase by citizens 53 



Sec. 2320. Length of mining claims upon veins or lodes 53 



Sec. 2322. Locators' rights of possession and enjoyment 53 



Extra-lateral rights 53 



Sec. 2323. Owners of tunnel sites 54 



Sec. 2324. Regulations made by miners 54 



Marking boundaries 54 



Annual labor 54 



Sec. 2325. Patents for mineral lands, how obtained 55 



Sec. 2327. Description of mining vein or lode claims 56 



Patents to conform to official monuments 56 



Monuments to govern descriptions 56 



Sec. 2329. Conformity of placer claims to surveys, limit of 56 



Sec. 2330. Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations 56 



Sec. 2331. Conformity of placer claims to surveys, limitations of claims. . . 56 



Sec. 2332. What evidence of possession, etc., to establish a right to a patent.. 57 



Sec. 2333,. Payment and proceedings for patent 57 



Sec. 2334. Survey of claims 57 



Sec. 2335. Verification of affidavits 58 



Sec. 2336. Rights where veins intersect 58 



Sec. 2337. Patents for nonmineral lands, etc 58 



Rights of way for water for irrigation and power development: 



Sec. 2339. Water and rights of way for same 81 



Sec. 2340. Patents subject to vested rights 81 



Coal-land laws: 



Sec. 2347. Entry of coal lands 66 



Sec. 2348. Preemption of coal lands 66 



Sec. 2349. Preemption claims of coal land to be presented Within 60 days, 



etc 66 



Sec. 2350. Only one entry allowed 66 



Sec. 2351. Conflicting claims 67 



Sec. 2352. Rights reserved 67 



Highways and railroads: 



Sec. 2477. Highways 79 



Secretary of Treasury may compromise certain claims: 



Sec. 3469. Compromise of claims 121 



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