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although such veins, lodes, or ledges may so far depart from a perpendicular in 
their course downward as to extend outside the vertical side-lines of the claim 
at the surface. The right of possession to such outside parts of such veins or 
ledges to be confined to such portions thereof as lie between vertical planes 
drawn downward through the end lines of the claims at the surface, so con¬ 
tinued in their own direction that such planes will intersect such exterior parts 
of such veins or ledges; it being expressly provided, however, that all veins, 
lodes, or ledges, the top or apex of which lies inside such surface locations, 
other than the one named in the patent, which were adversely claimed on the 
IOtli May, l 8 j 2 , are excluded from such conveyance by patent. 
8. Applications for patents for mining-claims pending at the date of the act 
of May 10, 1872, may be prosecuted to final decision in the General Land 
Office, and where no adverse rights are affected thereby, patents will be issued 
in pursuance of the provisions of the Revised Statutes. 
MANNER OF LOCATING CLAIMS ON VEINS OR LODES AFTER MAY 10, 1872 . 
9. From and after the loth May, 1872, any person who is a citizen of the 
United States, or who has declared his intention to become a citizen, may locate, 
record, and hold a mining claim of fifteen hundred linear feet along the course 
of any mineral vein or lode subject to location; or an association of persons, 
severally qualified as above, may make joint location' of such claim of fifteen 
hundred feet , but in no event can a location of a vein or lode made subsequent 
to May 10, 1872, exceed fifteen hundred feet along the course thereof, whatever 
may be the number of persons composing the association. 
10. With regard to the extent of surface-ground adjoining a vein or lode, and 
claimed for the convenient working thereof, the Revised Statutes provide that 
the lateral extent of locations of veins or lodes made after May 10, 1872, shall 
in no case exceed three hundred feet on each side oj the middle of the vein at 
the surface , and that no such surface rights shall be limited by any mining regu¬ 
lations to less than twenty-five feet on each side of the middle of the vein at 
the surface, except where adverse rights existing on the 10th May, 1872, may 
render such limitation necessary; the end-lines of such claims to be in all cases 
parallel to each other. Said lateral measurements cannot extend beyond three 
hundred feet on either side of the middle of the vein at the surface, or such 
distance as is allowed by local laws. For example: 400 feet cannot be taken on 
one side and 200 feet on the other. If, however, 300 feet on each side are 
allowed, and by reason of prior claims but 100 feet can be taken on one side, the 
locator will not be restricted to less than 300 feet on the other side; and when 
the locator does not determine by exploration where the middle of the vein at 
the surface is, his discovery shaft must be assumed to mark such point. 
