Notarized placer claim

r Recorded at Mequmt of in Book/WMirimg Mo*ices, P a g » .^ /^Line#!n C«. Rscariis, Ns*, CIRCULAR. Instructions concerning the acquisition of title to saline lands under the act of Congress approved January 31, 1901 (Public—No. 20), entitled “A n Act Extending the mining laws to saline lands.” DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, GENERAL LAND OEEICE, W ashington, D. 0., February 13, 1901. Registers and Receivers, District Land Offices. Gentlemen : Your attention is directed to the following act of Con­gress, approved January 31, 1901, extending the mining laws’.to saline lands. I A l l A C T Extending the p in in g laws to saline lands. y Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives o f the 1United States o f America in Congress assembled, That all unoccupied lands o f the United States containing salt springs, or deposits o f salt in any form, and chiefly valuable therefor, are hereby declared to be subject to location and purchase under the provisions of the law relating to placer­mining claims: Provided., That the same person shall not locate or enter more than one claim hereunder. Approved January 31, 1901. 1. Under this act the provisions of the law relating to placer-mining claims are extended to all States and Territories and the district of Alaska, so as to permit the location and purchase thereunder of all unoccupied public lands containing salt springs, or deposits of salt in any form, and chiefly valuable therefor, with the proviso, “ That the same person shall not locate or enter more than one claim hereunder.’’ 2. Rights obtained by location under the placer-mining laws are assignable and the assignee may make the entry in his own name; so, under this act a person holding as assignee may make entry in his own name, provided he has not held under this act, at any time, either as locator, assignee or entryman, any other lands; his right is exhausted by having held under this act any particular tract, either as locator, assignee or entryman, either as an individual or as a member of an association. It\follows, therefore, that no application tor patent or entry, made under this act, shall embrace more than one single location. 3. In order that the conditions imposed by the proviso, as set forth in the above paragraph, may duly appear, the notice of location pre­sented for record, the application for patent and the application to pur­chase must each contain a specific statement under oath by each person whose name appears therein that he never has, either as an individual or as a member of an association, located, applied for, entered, or held any other lands under the provisions of this act. Assignments made by persons who are not severally qualified as herein stated will not be recognized. B IN G E R H E RM AN N , Commissioner. Department oe the I nterior, February 13, 1901. Approved: E. A. H itchcock, Secretary. ?