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the neighborhood, describe the locus of the claim, with reference to the lines of 
public surveys, by a line connecting a corner of the claim with the nearest public 
corner of the United States surveys, unless such claim be on unsurveyed lands 
at a distance of more than two miles from such public corner, in which latter case 
it should be connected with a United States mineral monument. Such connect¬ 
ing line must not be more than two miles in length and should be measured on 
the ground direct between the points, or calculated from actually surveyed 
t raverse lines if the nature of the country should not permit direct measure¬ 
ment. If a regularly established survey corner is within two miles of a claim 
situated on unsurveyed lands, the connection should be made with such corner 
in preference to a connection with a United States mineral monument. The 
connecting line must be surveyed by the deputy mineral surveyor at the time of 
his making the particular survey, and be made a part thereof. 
46. Upon the approval of the survey of a mining claim made upon surveyed 
lands, the surveyor-general will prepare and transmit to the local land office and 
to this office a diagram tracing showing the portions of legal 40-acre subdivis¬ 
ions made fractional by reason of the mineral survey, designating each of such 
portions by the proper lot number, beginning with No. 1 in each section and 
giving the area of each lot. 
47. The survey and plat of mineral claims, required by section 2325, Revised 
Statutes of the United States, to be filed in the proper land office, with appli¬ 
cation for patent, must be made subsequent to the recording of the location of 
the mine; and when the original location is made by survey of a United States 
deputy surveyor such location survey can not be substituted for that required 
by the statute, as above indicated. 
48. The surveyor-general should derive his information upon which to base 
his certificate as to the value of labor expended or improvements made from his 
deputy who makes the actual survey and examination upon the premises, and 
such deputy should specify with particularity and full detail the character and 
extent of such improvements. 
49. The following particulars should be observed in the survey of every 
mining claim : 
(1) The exterior boundaries of the claim should be represented on the plat 
of survey and in the field notes. 
(2) The intersection of the lines of the survey with the lines of conflicting 
prior surveys should be noted in the field-notes and represented upon the 
plat. 
(3) Conflicts with unsurveyed claims, where the applicant for survey does not 
claim the area in conflict, should be shown by actual survey. 
(4) The total area of the claim embraced by the exterior boundaries should 
