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patent, under like circumstances and conditions, and upon similar proceedings, 
as are provided for vein or lode claims; but where the lands have been pre- 
viouslv surveyed by the United States, the entry in its exterior limits shall 
conform to the legal subdivisions of the public lands. 
Sec. 2330. Legal subdivisions of forty acres may be subdivided into ten-acre 
tracts ; and two or more persons, or associations of persons, 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 pre-emption or homestead claim upon agri¬ 
cultural lands, or authorize the sale of the improvements of any bona fide settler 
to any purchaser. 
Sec. 2331. Where placer-claims are upon surveyed lands, and conform to 
legal subdivisions, no further survey or plat shall be required, and 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 pre-emption purposes. 
Sec. 2332. Where such person or association, they and their grantors, have 
held and worked their claims for a period equal to the time prescribed by the 
statute of limitations for mining-claims of the State or Territory where the same 
may be situated, evidence of such possession 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. 
Sec. 2333. Where the same person, association, or corporation is m possession 
of a placer-claim, and also a vein or lode included within the boundaries thereof, 
application shall be made for a patent for the placer-claim, with the statement 
that it includes such vein or lode, and in such case a patent shall issue for the 
placer-claim, subject to the provisions of this chapter, including such vein or 
lode upon the payment of five dollars per acre for such vein or lode claim, and 
