Manual of American Mining Law as Practiced in the Western States and Territories: Embracing a Compilation of the Text of the United States Statutes, Land-office Regulations and Decisions, and the Local Statutes of California, Colorado, Nevada, Dakota, Washington, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Arizona |
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... by judicial authority , in so far , at least , as they were found reasonable and not in conflict with positive law , and when clearly established have been generally , if not universally §§ 1-2 RULES AND CUSTOMS OF MINERS . 2.
... by judicial authority , in so far , at least , as they were found reasonable and not in conflict with positive law , and when clearly established have been generally , if not universally §§ 1-2 RULES AND CUSTOMS OF MINERS . 2.
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... reasonable , and not in conflict with the law , such rules and customs must be strictly pursued . For the reason that forfeitures are odious , they are construed strictly against such a conclusion.5 Local rules have been sustained as ...
... reasonable , and not in conflict with the law , such rules and customs must be strictly pursued . For the reason that forfeitures are odious , they are construed strictly against such a conclusion.5 Local rules have been sustained as ...
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... reasonable , which provided for the amount of work to be done on a claim in order to hold it ; how claims are to be located ; 7 requiring a notice of location to be posted on or near the claim , 8 and requiring a renewal of notice ...
... reasonable , which provided for the amount of work to be done on a claim in order to hold it ; how claims are to be located ; 7 requiring a notice of location to be posted on or near the claim , 8 and requiring a renewal of notice ...
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... reasonable diligence , shall be invalid ; but failure to prosecute the work on the tunnel for six months shall be considered as an abandonment of the right to all undis- covered veins on the line of such tunnel . ( Act of Con- gress May ...
... reasonable diligence , shall be invalid ; but failure to prosecute the work on the tunnel for six months shall be considered as an abandonment of the right to all undis- covered veins on the line of such tunnel . ( Act of Con- gress May ...
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... reasonable diligence to final judgment ; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim . After such judgment shall have been rendered , the party entitled to the possession of the claim , or any portion thereof , may ...
... reasonable diligence to final judgment ; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim . After such judgment shall have been rendered , the party entitled to the possession of the claim , or any portion thereof , may ...
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Common terms and phrases
acquired acres Act of Congress action adverse claim adverse claimant adverse possession affidavit agricultural amended application for patent authority boundaries certificate claims located commenced conflict construed Copp's Copp's Min copy corporation court deposits district rules ditch dollars Dutch Flat easements effect entitled entry expenditure failure feet filed flume forfeiture ground held hundred improvements issue July 26 jurisdiction land office Landowner Law Rep ledges legal subdivisions lien loca lode claims ment mill mineral lands mining claims mining district Mont necessary notice owners party person placer claim placer mining plat possessory right posting prescribed proceedings public domain public lands purchase purposes quartz record register and receiver regulations relocation repealed Revised Statutes right of possession rules and customs Sawyer Section Sickels sixty days Stat stockholders subsequent supra surface survey territory thereof tion tunnel Uncle Sam United vein or lode width
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Page 15 - States governing their possessory title, shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the surface included within the lines of their locations, and of all veins, lodes, and ledges throughout their entire depth...
Page 24 - ... possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same ; and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed...
Page 16 - On each claim located after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and until a patent has been Issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars' worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year.
Page 19 - It shall be the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty days after filing his claim to commence proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, to determine the question of the right of possession, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim.
Page 157 - Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits...
Page 4 - ... local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States.
Page 22 - ... in such district, and fix the rates to be charged by such paper ; and, to the end that the Commissioner may be fully informed on the subject, each applicant shall file with the register a sworn statement of all charges and fees paid by such applicant for publication and surveys, together with all fees and money paid the register and the receiver of the land office, which statement shall be transmitted, with the other papers in the case, to the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Page 129 - Where nonmineral land not contiguous to the vein or lode is used or occupied by the proprietor of such vein or lode for mining or milling purposes, such nonadjacent surface ground may be embraced and included in an application for a patent for such vein or lode, and the same may be patented therewith, subject to the same preliminary requirements as to survey and notice as are applicable to veins or lodes...
Page 283 - An act granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands, and for other purposes...
Page 16 - ... but where such claims are held in common, such expenditure may be made upon any one claim, and upon a failure to comply with these conditions, the claim or mine upon which such failure occurred shall be open to relocation, in the same manner as if no location of the same had ever been made...