[The figures refer to pages.] ACTS OF CONGRESS-Continued, June 6, 1874, first annual expenditure, 547. February 11, 1875, expenditure in tunnel, 548. May 5, 1876, Kansas and Missouri, 548. June 3, 1878, use of timber, 548. January 22, 1880, application for patent by agent, and annual expend- March 3, 1881, judgment on adverse, 549, 550. April 26, 1882, verification of adverse by agent, proof of citizenship, March 3, 1883, Alabama, 550. May 17, 1884, Alaska, 550, 551. August 30, 1890, right of way for ditches and canals, 551. March 3, 1891, town sites on mineral lands, reservoirs, 551, 552. August 4, 1892, building stone lands, 552. November 3, 1893, suspension of requirement of annual expenditure July 18, 1894, suspension of requirement of annual expenditure ex- March 2, 1895, Wichita lands (Oklahoma), 553. February 11, 1897, petroleum or other oil lands, 553, 554. June 4, 1897, forest reserves, 554, 555. June 10, 1896, Ft. Belknap Indian reservation, 555. June 10, 1896, Blackfoot Indian reservation, 555. June 10, 1896, San Carlos Indian reservation, 555. May 14, 1898, Alaska, Canadians, 556. June 6, 1900, Alaska, 556, 557. June 6, 1900, Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache lands, 558. May 27, 1902, Uintah and White River Utes, 558, 559. March 3, 1905, Shoshone or Wind River Indian reservation, 561, 562. June 21, 1906, Coeur d'Alene Indian reservation, 563. March 2, 1907, Alaska mining claims, annual expenditure on, 562, 563. ACTS OF LOCATION, see Location. ADIT, definitions, 103, 104, 182, 183. as equivalent of discovery shaft, 182, 183. ADJACENT SUPPORT, see Lateral Support. ADVERSE CLAIMS AND PROCEEDINGS, see Protest. adverse proceedings in general, 366-385. between claimants of lodes and placers, 364, 369. [The figures refer to pages.] ADVERSE CLAIMS AND PROCEEDINGS-Continued, filing claim, 366, 367. description in adverse claim, 367. verification, 367, 368. appeals from decisions of land office, 368. amendment, 368, 369. who must adverse, 369. who may or may not adverse, 369-373. waiver of rights, 369, 373, 374. failure to adverse, effect, 373. court proceedings on adverse claims, 374-385. jurisdiction, 374, 375. nature and form of action, 375, 376. right to jury trial, 375, 376. time for commencement of, 374, 376, 377. parties, 377. pleading, 377-380. intervention, 380. trial, 380, 381. nonsuit, 381. verdict, 381, 382. judgment, 382, 383. relation of land department to court proceedings, 383-385. land office regulations, 580, 581. forms, 681, 682. ADVERSE POSSESSION, of mining property in general, 523–525. as excuse for failure to perform annual labor, 283, 284. AFFIDAVITS, see Verification. as to performance of annual labor, 284–286. verification of, on application for patent, federal statutory provisions, 545. AFTER-ACQUIRED TITLE, passing of, 501, 502. AGENT, see Principal and Agent. AGRICULTURAL LANDS, see Homestead Entries. effect of surveyor's return, 56, 57. segregation from mineral lands, federal statutes, 546. ALABAMA, mineral lands, federal legislation relating to, 35, 550. ALASKA, application to, of American mining law, 31. federal legislation relating to, 35, 550, 551, 556, 557, 562-564. COST. MIN.L.-46 ALASKA-Continued, [The figures refer to pages.] instructions from Interior Department, 612. land office regulations, 601-609. right of aliens to locate claims, 169. extension to, of federal mining laws, 550, 551, 557. mining privileges of Canadians, federal statutes, 169, 556. recording notice of location and other papers relating to mineral property, improvements, requirements, and affidavits, federal statutes, 284, 285, 562, miners' rules, federal statutes, 557. ALIENS, right to locate mining claims, 167-170. rights of alien heirs, 170. AMENDMENT, of location notice, 210. of record of lode location, 221-224. of certificate of location of placer claim, 260. of adverse claim, 368, 369. of pleading in adverse proceedings, 378 AMERICAN MINING LAW, definitions, 1. ANNUAL EXPENDITURE, see Improvement Requirements. ANNUAL LABOR, see Improvement Requirements. ANSWER, in adverse suit, 379. APACHE INDIAN LANDS, mineral rights, federal statutes, 558. APEX, see Subsurface Rights. definitions, 105, 137-140. judicial or theoretical apex, 450, 451. APPEAL, in land office, 50. from decision of land office in adverse proceedings, 368. APPENDICES, United States Revised Statutes and acts of Congress, 539-564. land office regulations, 565–592. coal land laws and land office regulations relating thereto, 593-614. timber and stone lands, regulations of land office, 615–617. Indian lands, regulations of Department of Interior as to leasing, 618-640. Texas mining laws, 664-675. forms in patent proceedings for lode claims, 676-682. examination questions in mining law, 683-690. APPLICATION, [The figures refer to pages.] see Adverse Claims and Proceedings; Lode Claims; Patents. for order of survey, 345, 346. for patent, 343-365. for patent to lode claims, form, 677, 678. to purchase lode claim, form, 679, 680. APPROPRIATION, see Water Rights. as basis of right, recognition by miners' rules, 5. ARIZONA, mineral lands, federal legislation and territorial code, 36. ARKANSAS, mineral lands, applicability and operation of federal and state laws, 36. Indian lands, lease of, Interior Department regulations, 631-635. ASSAY, definitions, 108, note, 489. ASSESSMENT WORK, see Improvement Requirements. ASSOCIATIONS, corporation as an association under placer mining law, 172, 173. entry of timber and stone lands by, 467. B BACK STOPING, definitions, 104. BAR DIGGINGS, definitions, 108. BASE ORES, definitions, 107, note. BEDDED DEPOSITS, definitions, 125. BEHRING SEA, regulations as to mining on lands bordering on, 557. BLANKET VEINS, subsurface rights, 414. BLANKS, see Forms. not furnished, land office regulations, 584. BLIND VEINS, see Location. definition, 234. in tunnel sites, location of, 239-242. abandonment of, 242. see Location; Subsurface Rights. lode locations, marking of on the ground, 184-196. origin and development of mining law in, 2-14. mineral lands, present statutory regulations, 36. water right system, 527, 528. CALIFORNIA DÉBRIS COMMISSION, creation of, 534. CANADIANS, mining privileges in Alaska, federal statutes, 169, 556. see Water Rights. CANCELLATION OF ENTRY, see Entries. CANCELLATION OF PATENT, see Patents. |