Chapter 2 — Mineral Lands and Regulations in General

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• §21 Mineral lands reserved
• §21a National mining and minerals policy; “minerals” defined; execution of policy under other authorized programs
• §22 Lands open to purchase by citizens
• §23 Length of claims on veins or lodes
• §24 Proof of citizenship
• §25 Affidavit of citizenship
• §26 Locators’ rights of possession and enjoyment
• §27 Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right
• §28 Mining district regulations by miners: location, recordation, and amount of work; marking of location on ground; records; annual labor or improvements on claims pending issue of patent; co-owner’s succession in interest upon delinquency in contributing proportion of expenditures; tunnel as lode expenditure
• §28–1 Inclusion of certain surveys in labor requirements of mining claims; conditions and restrictions
• §28–2 Definitions
• §28a Omitted
• §28b Annual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions
• §28c Length and termination of deferment
• §28d Performance of deferred work
• §28e Recordation of deferment
• §28f Fee
• §28g Location fee
• §28h Co-ownership
• §28i Failure to pay
• §28j Other requirements
• §28k Regulations
• §28l Collection of mining law administration fees
• §29 Patents; procurement procedure; filing: application under oath, plat and field notes, notices, and affidavits; posting plat and notice on claim; publication and posting notice in office; certificate; adverse claims; payment per acre; objections; nonresident claimant’s agent for execution of application and affidavits
• §30 Adverse claims; oath of claimants; requisites; waiver; stay of land office proceedings; judicial determination of right of possession; successful claimants’ filing of judgment roll, certificate of labor, and description of claim in land office, and acreage and fee payments; issuance of patents for entire or partial claims upon certification of land office proceedings and judgment roll; alienation of patent title
• §31 Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim
• §32 Findings by jury; costs
• §33 Existing rights
• §34 Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls
• §35 Placer claims; entry and proceedings for patent under provisions applicable to vein or lode claims; conforming entry to legal subdivisions and surveys; limitation of claims; homestead entry of segregated agricultural land
• §36 Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements
• §37 Proceedings for patent where boundaries contain vein or lode; application; statement including vein or lode; issuance of patent: acreage payments for vein or lode and placer claim; costs of proceedings; knowledge affecting construction of application and scope of patent
• §38 Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent
• §39 Surveyors of mining claims
• §40 Verification of affidavits
• §41 Intersecting or crossing veins
• §42 Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment
• §43 Conditions of sale by local legislature
• §45 Omitted
• §46 Additional land districts and officers
• §47 Impairment of rights or interests in certain mining property
• §48 Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands
• §49 Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands
• §49a Mining laws of United States extended to Alaska; exploration and mining for precious metals; regulations; conflict of laws; permits; dumping tailings; pumping from sea; reservation of roadway; title to land below line of high tide or high-water mark; transfer of title to future State
• §49b Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska
• §49c Recording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims
• §49d Miners’ regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized
• §49e Annual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures; location anew of claims; perjury
• §49f Fees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of work and improvements
• §50 Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands
• §51 Water users’ vested and accrued rights; enumeration of uses; protection of interest; rights-of-way for canals and ditches; liability for injury or damage to settlers’ possession
• §52 Patents or homesteads subject to vested and accrued water rights
• §53 Possessory actions for recovery of mining titles or for damages to such title
• §54 Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities