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claims; but where said placer claim shall be upon surveyed lands, and conforms 
to legal subdivisions, no further survey or plat will be required, and all placer 
mining claims located after May 10, 1872, shall conform as nearly as practicable 
with the United States system of public-land surveys and the rectangular subdi¬ 
visions 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. 
But where such claims are located previous to the public surveys, and do not 
conform to legal subdivisions, survey, plat, and entry thereof may be made 
according to the boundaries thereof, provided the location is in all respects legal. 
53. The proceedings for obtaining patents for veins or lodes having already 
been fully given, it will not be necessary to repeat them here, it being thought 
that careful attention thereto by applicants and the local officers will enable them 
to act understandingly in the matter and make such slight modifications in the 
notice, or otherwise, as may be necessary in view of the different nature of the 
two classes of claims, placer claims being fixed, however, at two dollars and 
fifty cents per acre, or fractional part of an acre. 
54. By section 2330, authority is given for the subdivision of forty-acre legal 
subdivisions into ten-acre lots, which is intended for the greater convenience of 
miners in segregating their claims both from one another and from intervening 
agricultural lands. 
55. It is held, therefore, that under a proper construction of the law these 
ten-acre lots in mining districts should be considered and dealt with, to all 
intents and purposes, as legal subdivisions, and that an applicant having a legal 
claim which conforms to one or more of these ten-acre lots, either adjoining or 
cornering, may make entry thereof, after the usual proceedings, without further 
survey or plat. 
56. In cases of this kind, however, the notice given of the application must 
be very specific and accurate in description, and as the forty-acre tracts may be 
subdivided into ten-acre lots, either in the form of squares of ten by ten chains, 
or if parallelograms five by twenty chains, so long as the lines are parallel and 
at right angles with the lines of the public surveys, it will be necessary that the 
notice and application state specifically what ten-acre lots are sought to be pat¬ 
ented, in addition to the other data required in the notice. 
57. Where the ten-acre subdivision is in the form of a square it mav be 
described, for instance, as the “ SE. $ of the SW. % of NW. or, if in the 
form of a parallelogram as aforesaid, it may be described as the “ W. V 2 of the 
W. y 2 of the SW. $ of the NW. $ (or the N. % of the S. % of the NE. $ of 
the SE. %) of section-, township-range-,” as the case may 
