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  • Sec.  21. Mineral lands reserved.
  • Sec.  21a. National mining and minerals policy; "minerals" defined; execution of policy under other authorized programs.
  • Sec.  22. Lands open to purchase by citizens.
  • Sec.  23. Length of claims on veins or lodes.
  • Sec.  24. Proof of citizenship.
  • Sec.  25. Affidavit of citizenship.
  • Sec.  26. Locators' rights of possession and enjoyment.
  • Sec.  27. Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right.
  • Sec.  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.
  • Sec.  28-1. Inclusion of certain surveys in labor requirements of mining claims; conditions and restrictions.
  • Sec.  28-2. Definitions.
  • Sec.  28a. Omitted.
  • Sec.  28b. Annual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions.
  • Sec.  28c. Length and termination of deferment.
  • Sec.  28d. Performance of deferred work.
  • Sec.  28e. Recordation of deferment.
  • Sec.  28f. Fee.
  • Sec.  28g. Location fee.
  • Sec.  28h. Co-ownership.
  • Sec.  28i. Failure to pay.
  • Sec.  28j. Other requirements.
  • Sec.  28k. Regulations.
  • Sec.  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.
  • Sec.  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.
  • Sec.  31. Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim.
  • Sec.  32. Findings by jury; costs.
  • Sec.  33. Existing rights.
  • Sec.  34. Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls.
  • Sec.  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.
  • Sec.  36. Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements.
  • Sec.  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.
  • Sec.  38. Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent.
  • Sec.  39. Surveyors of mining claims.
  • Sec.  40. Verification of affidavits.
  • Sec.  41. Intersecting or crossing veins.
  • Sec.  42. Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment.
  • Sec.  43. Conditions of sale by local legislature.
  • Sec.  44, 45. Omitted.
  • Sec.  46. Additional land districts and officers.
  • Sec.  47. Impairment of rights or interests in certain mining property.
  • Sec.  48. Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands.
  • Sec.  49. Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands.
  • Sec.  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.
  • Sec.  49b. Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska.
  • Sec.  49c. Recording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims.
  • Sec.  49d. Miners' regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized.
  • Sec.  49e. Annual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures; location anew of claims; perjury.
  • Sec.  49f. Fees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of work and improvements.
  • Sec.  50. Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands.
  • Sec.  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.
  • Sec.  52. Patents or homesteads subject to vested and accrued water rights.
  • Sec.  53. Possessory actions for recovery of mining titles or for damages to such title.
  • Sec.  54. Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities.
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