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acre per annum acres alienated land allowed alluvial claim American application authorities British British Columbia cents claim license claimant coal concession conveyancing rights copper cost Crown land desired discovery District Warden doctrine excavations exceed exclusive right exploration extralateral rights fee simple feet French Guiana gold granted ground hectares holder Iberian peninsula individual industry January 1st Katanga kind labor latter lease maximum ment metal or mineral meters Miner's Right mineral deposits mineral substances mining claim mining law mining property Minister of Mines months obtained output permit placer deposits possession precious metals precious stones private land privately owned land privileges production prospecting area prospecting license prospector provisions public domain Quartz registration renewable rental royalty secured shillings silver soil owner Spain square square miles stake surface owner surface rights survey Tasmania term thereafter thereof tion tract Transvaal underground unit claims vein width zinc
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Page 101 - States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the 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 100 - That no possessory action between individuals in any of the courts of the United States for the recovery of any mining title, or for damages to any such title, shall be affected by the fact that the paramount title to the land on which such mines are, is in the United States, but each case shall be adjudged by the law of possession ;
Page 101 - All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their MINING AND MINERAL LANDS.
Page 295 - And supposing that in the prescribed manner any miner should reach the perpendicular depth of 200 yards without exceeding the limits of his portion, by which he may commonly have much exhausted the vein, and that those veins which have greater inclination than yard for yard — that is to say, of...
Page 101 - Except as otherwise provided, all valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, shall be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase...
Page 100 - No possessory action between persons, in any court of the United States, for the recovery of any mining title, or for damages to any such title, shall be affected by the fact that the paramount title to the land in which such mines lie is in the United States; but each case shall be adjudged by the law of possession.
Page 296 - ... it, has been, and is, the most fruitful cause of the most bitter lawsuits, dissentions and disturbances among miners ; and, moreover, that this intrusion more often occurs from fraud or accident than from the merit or industry of the intruder, resulting generally in nothing but the serious injury or total ruin of the two mines and the two neighboring miners, to the great prejudice of the public and of my Royal Treasury, I order and command that no miner shall enter upon the pertenencia of another,...
Page 100 - 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.
Page 40 - Without separating them from my royal patrimony, I grant them to my subjects in property and possession, in such manner that they may sell, exchange, pass by will, either in the way of inheritance or legacy, or in any other manner dispose of all their property in them, upon the terms on which they themselves possess it, and to persons legally capable of acquiring it.
Page 294 - ... miners — and considering that the limits established in the mines of these kingdoms, and by which those of New Spain have been hitherto regulated, are very confined in proportion to the abundance, multitude, and richness of the metallic veins which it has pleased the Creator of his great bounty to bestow on...