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Interior, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall 
be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and to which may be 
added imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months. 
Approved June 3, 1878 (20 Stat., 88). 
AN ACT to amend sections twenty-three hundred and twenty-four and twenty-three hundred and 
twenty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States concerning mineral lands. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
of America in Congress assembled, That section twenty-three hundred and 
twenty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended by adding 
thereto the following words: “ Provided, That where the claiman-t for a patent 
is not a resident of or within the land-district wherein the vein, lode, ledge, or 
deposit sought to be patented is located, the application for patent and the 
affidavits required to be made in this section by the claimant for such patent 
may be made by his, her, or its authorized agent, where said agent is conversant 
with the facts sought to be established by such affidavits: And provided, That 
this section shall apply to all applications now pending for patents to mineral 
lands.” 
Sec. 2. That section twenty-three hundred and twenty-four of the Revised 
Statutes of the United States be amended by adding the following words: 
“Provided , That the period within which the work required to be done annu¬ 
ally on all unpatented mineral claims shall commence on the first day of Januarv 
succeeding the date of location of such claim, and this section shall apply to all 
claims located since the tenth day of May, anno Domini eignteen hundred and 
seventy-two.” 
Approved January 22, 1880 (21 Stat., 61). 
AN ACT to amend section twenty-three hundred and twenty-six of the Revised Statutes relating 
to suits at law affecting the title to mining-claims. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That if, in any action brought pur¬ 
suant to section twenty-three hundred and twenty-six of the Revised Statutes, 
title to the ground in controversy shall not be established by either party, the 
jury shall so find, and judgment shall be entered according to the verdict. In 
such case costs shall not be allowed to either party, and the claimant shall not 
proceed in the land-office or be entitled to a patent for the ground in contro¬ 
versy until he shall have perfected his title. 
Approved March 3, 1881 (21 Stat., 505). 
