after the name of the locator, thus: By Thomas Jones, agent (or attorney). See also Mining Claims before Land Offices. FORM 2. Notice of Location of a Placer Claim. Notice is hereby given to all whom it may concern, that citizen..of the United States, over the age of twenty-one years, have this day located, under the Revised Statutes of the United States, c. 6, tit. 32, the following-described placer-mining ground, viz.:* ... ... situated in mining district, ...... county, state of ...... This claim shall be known as the ...... placer-mining claim, and we intend to work the same in accordance with the local customs and rules of miners in said mining district. ..... FORM 3. Application to United States Surveyor General for Survey of Mining Claim. United States Surveyor General for .... .., range No. .., Sir: In compliance with the provisions of the Revised Statutes of the United States, c. 6, tit. 32, and instructions issued thereunder, ...... herewith make application for an official survey of the mining claim known as the ...... mine, claimed by located in ...... mining district, in the county of .... township No. ... base and meridian, in the state of ...., mentioned and described in the annexed record of location; and ...... request that you will send to ...... address an estimate of the amount to be deposited for the work to be done in your office; and after such deposit shall have been made, you will cause the said mining claim to be surveyed by .. United States deputy mineral surveyor, and will make a plat thereof, indorsed with your approval, designating the number and description of the ..... ....... * If on surveyed land, describe the legal subdivisions; if on unsurveyed land, describe as accurately as possible, by course and distance. location, and the value of the labor and improvements made by the locator or his grantees on said mining claim; and that you will transmit duplicate copies of said plat to applicant ... with a certified copy of the field-notes of survey of said mining claim. The expenses of office work .... herewith tendered, and request that prompt action be taken therein. NOTE.-If the applicant is not in actual possession of the ground, an affidavit stating how he was dispossessed, when he was last in possession, and what adverse claims there are, should be filed. This affidavit should state all the material facts and circumstances. FORM 4. Estimate of United States Surveyor General for Office Work for Mining Claim. U. S. Surveyor General's Office, ..... . San Francisco, ......, 18.. county, California. I have received your application, dated 18.., made under the provisions of chapter 6, Revised Statutes of the United States, for a survey of the mining claim known as the ...... mine, claimed by ...... located in mining district, in the county of ... township No. .., range No. base and meridian, in the state of California; also for an estimate of the expense of the office work required to be done in this office. In reply, I herewith furnish an estimate of the amount to be paid for such office work, viz.: Stationery... Examination of the original field-notes. Protraction of the original plat... Making duplicate and triplicate plats for claimants.. Total..... $...... The said amount must be deposited with the United States assistant treasurer in San Francisco, and his certificate, in tri plicate, taken therefor, and sent to this office; one to be transmitted to commissioner of the general land office, and one to the treasurer of the United States, and the other to be forwarded to you. Upon the filing of said certificate, in duplicate, in this office, I will at once authorize the survey of said mining claim by a United States deputy mineral surveyor. After the survey and office work have been completed I will transmit to your address two certified plats of said mining claim and a certified transcript of the field-notes for your use. provisions of an act of congress approved May 10, 1872, entitled "An act to promote the development of the mining resources of the United States," for a survey of the .... mining claim, known as the ..... mine, claimed by ...... .., in the .... mining district, county of ......, township No. range No. .., ...... base and meridian, in the state of ... I hereby deputize and appoint you to execute the said survey. You will make said survey so as to define correctly the locus of the ground described in the annexed record of location, and according to the monuments therein referred to. You will make your survey in strict conformity to the law and special instructions to deputy mineral surveyors from this office. You will make full report in all matters connected therewith, the value of the improvements, work, and labor done on said claim, in the currency of the United States, the character of the vein exposed, and its connection with some established monuments of public surveys. You will transmit to this office, without unnecessary delay, your field-notes of survey, your final oath, the preliminary and final oaths of our assistants, your report, a diagram of said mine, and the affidavits of two disinterested witnesses that to the best of their knowledge and belief, from their acquaintance with said mine, the value of the labor and improvements thereon is not less than five hundred dollars. The United States will not be responsible for the payment of your services; you will therefore make satisfactory arrangements with the claimant before proceeding with your survey. Very respectfully, U. S. Surveyor General for .. It is sometimes necessary to use the following: FORM 6. Certificate of Identity of Claim, Territory of Utah, ..... and County of .... of lawful age, each for himself and not one for the other, being first duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is a citizen of the United States, that he is well acquainted with the ... mining claim situated in ..... mining district, county and territory aforesaid, for which ...... made application for patent under the provisions of an act of congress, approved May 10, 1872; that he is not interested in the aforesaid mining claim, either directly or indirectly; that he was present on the ...... day of ... A. D. 18.., on the ground of said mining claim; and that the survey of said mining claim, made on that day by .... ....., surveyor, embraces the identical ground originally claimed by its locators; and further, that the initial point of discovery of said lode or mining claim, from which said survey has been made by the said surveyor, is the same place where the notice of said lode or mining claim originally was posted. ...... Subscribed and sworn to before me this ..... day of..... A. D. 18.., and I hereby certify that I consider the above deponents credible and reliable witness. Application for patent for the ......mining claim. To the register and receiver of the United States land office at .... being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says, that in virtue of a compliance with the mining rules, regulations, and customs by himself, the said ... and his co-claimants ...... applicants for patent herein, ha.. become the owner.. of and ...... in actual, quiet, and undisturbed possession of linear feet of the ...... vein, lode, or deposit, bearing......, together with surface ground feet in width, for the convenient working thereof, as allowed by local rules and customs of miners; said mineral claim, vein, lode, or deposit, and surface ground being situated in the mining district, county of ......, and . . . . . . of ..... and being more particularly set forth and described in the official field-notes of survey thereof, hereto attached, dated day of ..... A. D. 18.., and in the official plat of said survey, now posted conspicuously upon said mining claim or premises, a copy of which is filed herewith. Deponent further states that the facts relative to the right of possession of himself (and his said co-claimants herein before named) to said mining claim, vein, lode, or deposit and surface ground, so surveyed and platted, are substantially as follows, to wit [Give full description of claim, from whom and the manner in which title was derived]; which will more fully appear by reference to the copy of the original record of location, heretofore furnished, and the abstract of title hereto attached and made a part of this affidavit; the value of the labor done and the improvements made upon said ..... claim, by himself and his grantors, being equal to the sum of $500, and said improvements consist of [describe in detail]. In consideration of which facts, and in conformity with the provisions of chapter 6 of title 32 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, application is hereby made for and in behalf of said for a patent from the government of the United States for the said mining claim, vein, lode, deposit, and the surface ground so officially surveyed and platted. * This form is not proper in every case; it must be varied to suit circumstances. |