...the plaintiff Frank Anthony, 'This section provides that all mineral deposits in public lands shall be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they ave found to occupation and purchase by citizens of the United States and those who have declared their...

...the Revised Statutes, the right to purchase mineral deposits in the public lands was conferred upon "citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such." Section 2321, however, in regulating the mode by which the fact of citizenship should be established,...

...submitted a report from the Conference Committee who recommend that qualified voters shall be : All citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become such, and who are otherwise described and qualified under the fifth section of the act of Congress...

...The act incorporating the city of Butte provides (article 4, § 2, Sess. Laws 1879) as follows : "All citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become such, of twenty-one years of age, who shall be tax-paying householders, and who shall have been actual...

...Ü. S., provides that "all valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States * * * are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, * * * under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs and rules by miners,"...

...were practically revised and consolidated, and it was enacted that "all valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed...which they are found to occupation and purchase," as therein provided; and this is the law as it stands in the Kevised Statutes, § 2319. Section 2318...

...valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, were declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase}...which they are found, to occupation and purchase, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law, and according to the local customs and rules of...

...sale, except as otherwise expressly directed by law." Sec. 2319: "All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free ami open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found, to occupation and purchase,...

...of the United States of America in Congress assembkd, 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...

...minerals, and that the lands containing those deposites be left free to the enterprising industry of all citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become such, to work and mine at their pleasure, without let or hindrance, except so far as local legislation...