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APPENDIX.

CONTAINING THE MINING LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, TO WIT:

1. The Mining Laws of 1866. 2. The Mining Laws of 1870.

3. The Mining Laws of 1872.

4. Extending time of Work on Mines--1873 and 1874.
5. The act relating to possessory actions of Mining Claims.

6. The Mining Laws of Arizona.

THE TREATIES WITH MEXICO, TO WIT:

7. Treaty of Limits-1828 and 1831.

8. Treaty of Amity Commerce and Navigation-1831.

9. Convention for a second additional article to the Treaty of Limits1835 and 1836.

10. Convention for the adjustment of claims of Citizens of the United States-1839.

11. Treaty of Peace, Friendship, and Limits and Settlement-1848.

12. The Gadsden Treaty-1854.

13. Extradition Treaty-1862.

14. Postal Convention Treaty-1862.

15. regulations of Postmaster-General under.

16. Treaty for Adjustment of Claims-1868.

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19. Treaty Regulating the Citizenship of Emigrants-1868. 20. Rules of the Supreme Court of Arizona Territory.

UNITED STATES MINING LAWS.

AN ACT

Granting the right of way to Ditch and Canal Owners over the Public Lands, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. That the mineral lands of the public domain, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and occupation by all citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become citizens, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by law, and subject also to the local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the same may not be in conflict with the laws of the United States. [Repealed.]

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever any person or association of persons, claim a vein or lode of quartz, or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar or copper, having previously occupied and improved the same according to the local customs or rules of miners in the district where the same is situated, and having expended in actual labor and improvements thereon an amount of not less than one thousand dollars, and in regard to whose possession there is no controversy or opposing claim, it shall and may be lawful for said claimant, or association of claimants, to file in the local land-office a diagram of the same so extended laterally or otherwise as to conform to the local laws, customs and rules of miners, and to enter such tract and receive a patent therefor, granting such mine, together with the right to follow such vein or lode with its dips, angles and variations to any depth, although it may enter the land adjoining, which land adjoining shall be sold subject to this condition. [Repealed.]

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That upon the filing of the diagram as provided in the second section of this act, and posting the same in a conspicuous place on the claim, together with a notice of intention to apply for a patent, the Register

of the Land-office shall publish a notice of the same in a newspaper published nearest to the location of said claim, and shall also post such notice in his office for the period of ninety days; and, after the expiration of said period, if no adverse claim shall have been filed, it shall be the duty of the Surveyor-General, upon application of the party, to survey the premises and make a plat thereof, indorsed with his approval, designating the number and description of the location, the value of the labor and improvements, and the character of the vein exposed; and upon the payment to the proper officer of five dollars per acre, together with the cost of such survey, plat, and notice, and giving satisfactory evidence that said diagram and notice have been posted on the claim during said period of ninety days, the Register of the Land-Office shall transmit to the General Land-Office said plat, survey, and description, and a patent shall issue for the same thereupon. But said plat, survey, or description shall in no case cover more than one vein or lode, and no patent shall issue for more than one vein or lode, which shall be expressed in the patent issued. [Repealed.]

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That when such location and entry of a mine shall be upon unsurveyed lands, it shall and may be lawful, after the extension thereto of the public surveys, to adjust the surveys to the limits of the premises according to the location and possession and plat aforesaid; and the Surveyor-General may, in extending the surveys, vary the same from a rectangular form to suit the circumstances of the country and the local rules, laws, and customs of miners. Provided, That no location hereafter made shall exceed two hundred feet in length along the vein for each locator, with an additional claim for discovery to the discoverer of the lode, with the right to follow such vein to any depth with all its dips, variations, and angles, together with a reasonable quantity of surface for the convenient working of the same, as fixed by local rules. And provided further, That no person may make more than one location on the same lode, and not more than three thousand feet shall be taken in any one claim by any association of persons. [Repealed.]

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That, as a further condition of sale, in the absence of necessary legislation by Congress, the local Legislature of any State or Territory may provide rules for working mines involving easements, drainage, and other necessary means to their complete development; and those conditions shall be fully expressed in the patent.

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