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The surveyors-general and local land officers are expected to report any 
infringement of this regulation to this office. 
102. The law requires that each applicant shall file with the register and 
receiver a sworn statement of all charges and fees paid by him for publication of 
notice and for survey, together with all fees and money paid the register and 
receiver, which sworn statement is required to be transmitted to this office for 
the information of the Commissioner. 
103. Should it appear that excessive or exorbitant charges have been made 
by any surveyor or any publisher, prompt action will be taken with the view r of 
correcting the abuse. 
104. The fees payable to the register and receiver for filing and acting upon 
applications for mineral-land patents are five dollars to each officer, to be paid 
by the applicant for patent at the time of filing, and the like sum of five dollars 
is payable to each officer by an adverse claimant at the time of filing his adverse 
claim. (Sec. 2238, R. S., paragraph 9.) 
105. All fees or charges under this law may be paid in United States cur¬ 
rency. 
106. The register and receiver will, at the close of each month, forward to 
this office an abstract of mining applications filed, and a register of receipts, 
accompanied with an abstract of mineral lands sold, and an abstract of adverse 
claims filed. 
107. The fees and purchase money received by registers and receivers must 
be placed to the credit of the United States in the receiver’s monthly and quar¬ 
terly account, charging up in the disbursing account the sums to which the reg¬ 
ister and receiver may be respectively entitled as fees and commissions, with 
limitations in regard to the legal maximum. 
PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE REGISTER AND RECEIVER AND SURVEYORS-GENERAL IN 
CONTESTS AND HEARINGS TO ESTABLISH THE CHARACTER OF LANDS. 
108. The “ Rules of Practice in cases before the United States district land 
offices, the General Land Office, and the Department of the Interior,” approved 
August 13, 1885, will, as far as applicable, govern in all cases and proceedings 
arising in contests, and hearings to determine the mineral or nonmineral character 
of lands. 
109. The only tracts of public land that will be withheld from entry as agri¬ 
cultural land on account of its mineral character, will be such as are returned 
by the surveyor-general as mineral; and even the presumption which is sup¬ 
ported by such return may be overcome by testimony taken at a regular hearing. 
110. Hearings to determine the character ofland, as practically distinguished, 
are of two kinds: 
