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be; but, in addition to this description of the land, the notice must give all 
the other data that is required in a mineral application, by which parties may 
be put on inquiry as to the premises sought to be patented. The proofs sub¬ 
mitted with applications for claims of this kind must show clearly the character 
and the extent of the improvements upon the premises. 
Inasmuch as the surveyor-general has no duty to perform in connection with 
the entry of a placer claim of legal subdivisions, the proof of improvements 
must show their value to be not less than five hundred dollars and that they 
were made by the applicant for patent or his grantors. The annual expendi¬ 
ture to the amount of $>ioo, required by section 2324, Revised Statutes, must 
be made upon placer claims as well as lode claims. 
58. Applicants for patent to a placer claim, who are also in possession of a 
known vein or lode included therein, must state in their application that the 
placer includes such vein or lode. The published and posted notices must also 
include such statement. If veins or lodes lying within a placer location are 
owned by other parties, the fact should be distinctly stated in the application 
for patent, and in all the notices. But in all cases whether the lode is claimed 
or excluded, it must be surveyed and marked upon the plat; the field notes and 
plat giving the area of the lode claim or claims and the area of the placer sepa¬ 
rately. It should be remembered that an application which omits to include an 
application for a known vein or lode therein, must be construed as a conclusive 
declaration that the applicant has no right of possession to the vein or lode. 
Where there is no known lode or vein, the fact must appear by the affidavit of 
two or more witnesses. 
59. By section 2330, it is declared that no location of a placer claim, made 
after July 9, 1870, shall exceed one hundred and sixty acres for any one person 
or association of persons, which location shall conform to the United States 
surveys. 
60. Section 2331 provides that all placer-mining claims located after May 10, 
1872, shall conform as nearly as practicable with the United States systems of 
public surveys and the subdivisions of such surveys, and no such locations shall 
include more than twenty acres for each individual claimant. 
61. The foregoing provisions of law are construed to mean that after the 9th 
day of July, 1870, no location of a placer claim can be made to exceed one 
hundred and sixty .acres, whatever may be the number of locators associated 
together, or whatever the local regulations of the district may allow ; and that 
from and after May 10, 1872, no location made by an individual can exceed 
twenty acres, and no location made by an association of individuals can exceed 
one hundred and sixty acres, which location of one hundred and sixty acres can 
