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39. The claimant, either at the time of filing these papers with the register 
or at any time during the sixty days’ publication, is required to file a certificate 
of the surveyor-general that not less than five hundred dollars’ worth of labor 
has been expended or improvements made upon the claim by the applicant or 
his grantors; that the plat filed by the claimant is correct; that the field-notes 
o f 'the survey, as filed, furnish such an accurate description of the claim as will, 
if incorporated into a patent, serve to fully identify the premises, and that such 
reference is made therein to natural objects or permanent monuments as will 
perpetuate and fix the locus thereof. 
40. It will be the more convenient way to have this certificate indorsed by 
the surveyor-general, both upon the plat and field-notes of survey filed by the 
claimant as aforesaid. 
41. After the sixty days’ period of newspaper publication has expired the 
claimant will furnish from the office of publication a sworn statement that the 
notice was published for the statutory period, giving the first and last day of 
such publication, and his own affidavit showing that the plat and notice afore¬ 
said remained conspicuously posted upon the claim sought to be patented dur¬ 
ing said sixty days’ publication, giving the dates. 
42. Upon the filing of this affidavit the register will, if no adverse claim was 
filed in his office during the period of publication, permit the claimant to pay 
for the land according to the area given in the plat and field notes of survey 
aforesaid, at the rate of five dollars for each acre and five dollars for each frac¬ 
tional part of an acre, the receiver issuing the usual duplicate receipt therefor. 
The claimant will also make a sworn statement of all charges and fees paid by 
him for publication and surveys, together with all fees and money paid the 
register and receiver of the land office; after which the whole matter will be 
forwarded to the Commissioner of the General Land Office and a patent issued 
thereon if found regular. 
43. In sending up the papers in the case the register must not omit certifying 
to the fact that the notice was posted in his office for the full period of sixty 
days, such certificate to state distinctly when such posting was done and how 
long continued. 
a^., The consecutive series of numbers of mineral entries must be continued, 
whether the same are of lode or placer claims or mill sites. 
The sur veyors-general should designate all surveyed mineral claims by a 
progressive series of numbers, beginning with survey No. 37, irrespective as to 
whether they are situated on surveyed or unsurveyed lands, the claim to be so 
designated at date of issuing the order therefor, in addition to the local designa¬ 
tion of the claim; it being required in all cases that the plat and field-notes of 
the survey of a claim must, in addition to the reference to permanent objects in 
